Amazon has announced it will open a new Lower Mainland fulfilment centre on Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN) lands in Canada. The 450,000-square-foot facility will create more than 700 full-time jobs and join Amazon’s network of existing British Columbia facilities in Delta and New Westminster. Once open, the new facility will be Amazon’s tenth fulfillment facility in Canada.
This will be Amazon’s third fulfilment centre in British Columbia, where it currently employs more than 800 full-time associates. In addition to its fulfilment centres, Amazon employs an additional 1,500 British Columbians at its tech hub in Vancouver.
In total, Amazon employs more than 7,000 people working at fulfillment centres, corporate offices, development centres and other facilities throughout Canada in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec. Amazon is currently hiring for hundreds of full-time and seasonal positions across the country as the company ramps up for the holiday season.
Since first opening in British Columbia in 2012, we credit our exciting growth to the incredible customers and outstanding workforce of the Lower Mainland community. Our ability to create over 700 good-paying jobs with great benefits is thanks to the network of support we’ve received from the Tsawwassen First Nation Executive Council, provincial and community leaders, and strong project partners dedicated to innovation.
– Glenn Sommerville, Director of Amazon Operations in Canada
As they are keen to point out, full-time employees at Amazon receive competitive hourly wages, medical, vision and dental coverage, a group RRSP plan, stock awards, and performance-based bonuses starting on day one. They also offer Career Choice, where they pay up to 95% of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program’s launch, more than 16,000 employees across the globe have pursued degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology.
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amazon will never be a verb for a few reasons.
1. the word itself simply doesn’t lend itself to being a verb. it doesnt roll off the tongue as catchy-sounding as you would want from a new verb.
2. the word isn’t exclusive to the company, Amazon. they borrowed their name from another well-known Amazon.
3. as you point out, amazon do several different things, “to amazon” could be to do any number of different things, “to google” just means to search online (yes google do other things too, but not as famously, and was verbed before branching out so widely).
so using amazon as a verb would simply cause confusion and make you look like a twat in normal conversation.
were someone to casually drop that line into a conversation with me today, i would envisage them attacking someone in the fashion of an ancient female warrior tribe, probably not what they meant when referencing their online shopping.
Hoover works as a verb, Dyson doesn’t. Dyson just gets on with making vacuum cleaners rather than trying to fit his surname into common parlance.