Amazon in the US also hires weed smokers for deliveries. It will be interesting
Both Amazon and Walmart are struggling to add more than 55,000 and 20,000 employees respectively. Amazon is looking for corporate and tech employees as Walmart's hiring focuses on the supply chain.
Amazon's move to hire 55,000 employees is one of new CEO Andy Jassy's first major initiatives since taking over from former CEO Jeff Bezos earlier this year. Positions will include engineering, research science, and robotics roles.
The monstrous hiring spree will see Amazon bring its employees to more than 33% of Google's workforce and nearly all of Facebook's workforce, according to CNBC. It will also be a 20% increase in Amazon's current tech and business workforce, which currently numbers around 275,000.
But it's not just Amazon's internal workforce that needs to be expanded. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Amazon has found a solution to increase the number of contract delivery postmen it uses to deliver from fulfillment centers to the buyer's home: recruit marijuana smokers.
That's right: Despite the fact that driving under the influence of any substance is illegal, the company advises its delivery partners to prominently advertise that they don't screen applicants for marijuana use, according to emails between Amazon. and contractors reviewed by Bloomberg.
This can increase the number of job applicants by up to 400%, Amazon says in a message to its driver-contractors (without explaining where the number was obtained). In contrast, the company says, marijuana screening reduces the pool of potential workers by up to 30 percent. A delivery company that stopped screening candidates at the behest of Amazon says marijuana was the overriding reason most people failed drug tests. Now that he's only testing drugs like opiates and amphetamines, more drivers are passing.
Other delivery companies are continuing to screen applicants, worried about the insurance and liability implications in the many states where weed use remains illegal. They also fear that the end of drug tests may induce some drivers to "Relax" before embarking on a route.
"If one of my drivers crashes and kills someone and tests positive for marijuana, that's my problem, not Amazon's," said a sub apparator, who asked for anonymity to discuss the problem because Amazon discourages the owners of the delivery company from talking to the media.
At the same time, Amazon maintains marijuana testing for its internal hires. Of course, we are sure that by entrusting the deliveries to weed smokers, we will have much more varied and interesting deliveries in the US.
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