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Amazon has become the world's fifth largest employer
Bucking 2020's trend of mass redundancies and layoffs, online retailer Amazon has added 427,300 new employees to its company this year, increasing its total workforce to 1.2 million.
Amanda Shendruk is a visual journalist on the Things team. She is an award-winning reporter who explores narrative at the intersections of code, data and design. She has worked at the Guardian (UK), at Maclean's Magazine (Canada) and at the Council on Foreign Relations (New York).
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China
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France
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