By Robert McCartney Robert McCartney Senior regional correspondent covering government and politics Email Bio Follow April 29 at 5:00 PM Amazon posted the first job listings for its new Arlington County headquarters Monday and said it is moving two vice presidents from Seattle there to oversee workforce development and international growth of its virtual assistant Alexa.
That’s in contrast to the reception Amazon received in New York, where opposition led it to cancel plans to build a similar facility there. “While the number is small, these employees will help build the foundation of our workforce and workplace,” Ardine Williams, vice president of workforce development, said in a blog post.
Moving the vice presidents is “a really strong signal” of Amazon’s commitment, Dorsey said, adding that “we’re hoping they will recruit from in and around the area.”But state Del. Lee J. Carter , one of a minority of House members who voted against a state incentives package for the company, expressed doubt about Amazon’s commitment to hiring locally.
The Seattle-based company portrayed the moves as confirmation that the Northern Virginia facility will be a true second headquarters, with high-level executives building teams there, and not merely a satellite office.The company said it is leasing 45,500 square feet of temporary space from JBG Smith at 2345 Crystal Drive, so new employees can begin work in June. Earlier this month, JBG Smith said it had finalized three leases and two sales agreements with Amazon for other buildings nearby.
The agreement with the state specifies how many jobs are to be created each year, with the average wage rising 1.5 percent each year from a base of $150,000. The state gives Amazon the grant money four and half years after the jobs are created.The Virginia General Assembly was so eager to get the Amazon jobs — and associated tax revenue and prestige — that it approved the incentives package after virtually no debate in January.
Pay your taxes Amazon, we should not buy anything from them until they help us pay down the deficit, even though the Republicans seem to ignore it.
And, thanks to AOC, those job ARE NOT IN NY! Hope the fools who voted for her are happy with their choice.
Minimum wage and no benefits?
Good riddance, Amazon. Go use the labor force in some other (unfortunate) city. You sicken me. You get disgustingly rich doing business in our city, and then refuse to pay a tax that would help the thousands of homeless we have sleeping in the shadow of your Sow of a Company. FU
AOC you can not stop the 4th Industrial Revolution but your just destroying the chances of maintaining what jobs are left ....
WeAreTheChampions 😂
But NYC got it's $3 billion back, right?
Bad timing? The so-called worrygauge is sitting in its top quintile and is flashing some eerie parallels to the 1987 crash.
-25,000 New Yorkers.
AOC socialism works great now NYC has no Amazon jobs and just raised taxes on those same citizens to pay to update the subway she said the city would have money to update if Amazon didn’t come there.
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