Amazon has announced that it will recruit 75,000 additional people in the United States and Canada, and create 10,000 jobs in the United Kingdom in 2021. The American giant has seen its activity boosted since the start of the coronavirus pandemic by the explosion of online commerce. 

Driven since the start of the coronavirus pandemic by the explosion of online commerce, Amazon announced Thursday its intention to recruit 75,000 additional people in the United States and Canada, and to offer a bonus to those vaccinated.

Amazon says it offers an average hourly starting wage of more than $ 17 and an exceptional bonus that can climb to $ 1,000.

New hires showing proof of Covid-19 vaccination will receive an additional $ 100.

Hires in several major cities in the United Kingdom

The American giant also announced the creation of 10,000 jobs in the United Kingdom in 2021, thanks in particular to the opening of new distribution centers, in order to meet the boom in demand with the pandemic.

The group will increase its total workforce in the country to 55,000 people by the end of the year, according to a statement. 

In the UK, the new jobs created will be in administrative services, Amazon Web Services data centers, and distribution.

Hiring will be in several large cities including London, Manchester and Edinburgh, for example, in digital marketing, software or artificial intelligence.

Amazon, which has invested more than $ 23 billion in the country since 2010, will also open a parcel reception center, and four new distribution centers.

"We are creating thousands of good jobs across the UK and in a variety of functions, with very good pay," said John Boumphrey, head of Amazon in the country, in the statement.

Amazon employed 1.27 million people worldwide as of March 31

The group has regularly carried out massive recruitment campaigns since the start of the pandemic.

It employed a total of 1.27 million people worldwide as of March 31, 50% more than a year earlier, including more than 800,000 in the United States.

Amazon is regularly criticized for the difficult working conditions of its employees. After the failure of an attempt to unionize in a warehouse of the group, its founder Jeff Bezos had put forward in April the need to have a "better vision in terms of creation of value" for the employees of Amazon.