Amazon is aiming to open its fulfillment center in Davenport, Iowa by August, with plans to hire 1,000 people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julie Forsythe, Senior Vice President of Business and Economic Growth at the Quad Cities Chamber, said Amazon had informed local officials of the plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said: “We\u2019re told that they\u2019re going to be hiring , and they hope to open by August of this year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Davenport fulfillment center<\/a><\/strong> was slated to open in September 2022 but Amazon put it off by two years due to global supply-chain concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The center was later scheduled to open in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Amazon mass layoff plan hits cloud and HR departments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The pandemic caused a spike in online shopping, prompting Amazon to rush to build warehouse space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But due to overbuilding warehouse capacity<\/a><\/strong> during the pandemic, the firm posted its first quarterly loss in seven years last year, as people shifted to in-person shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazon has since scrapped warehouse plans nationwide and sacked 27,000 people in its cost-cutting efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice? <\/strong>Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n With Amazon and Fair Oaks Foods planning to recruit hundreds in the Quad Cities over the next year or so, Forsythe acknowledged the challenge of hiring sufficient staff for businesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To entice students, she says Amazon provides<\/a><\/strong> flexible hours and tuition assistance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n She noted that a shortage of employees is a problem every community faces, as the country needs more people to meet workforce demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazon is aiming to open its Iowa, Davenport fulfillment center by August, with plans to hire 1,000 people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2459,1372,2601],"tags":[57,108],"class_list":["post-42585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazon-news","category-us-employment-news","category-usa","tag-amazon","tag-new-jobs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}