Amazon added more than 76,000 people last year
Amazon added 76,700 employees in 2015, an increase of 50% from the previous year, according to the company's latest annual filing.
That's way more employees than it's added in each of the last three years, and is also the fastest rate of employee growth since 2012, when the company grew employees 57%.
That brings the company to about 230,800 employees. So what are all those people doing?
Probably working in the company's warehouses, for the most part. Amazon actually didn't talk about employment growth per se on its earnings call on Thursday — you can read the transcript here.
But CFO Brian Olsavsky noted that the company, during the year, had added 14 fulfillment centers for a total of 123 and four sortation centers for a total of 23.
A lot of those employees were added during the first three quarters of the year. At the end of Q3, the count was at 222,400 employees, and 39,000 of them were hired in Q3 alone to prepare for the holiday rush.
Here's Amazon's total employee count at the end of each of the last few years:
2011: 56,200
2012: 88,400, growth of 32,200 (57%)
2013: 117,300, growth of 28,900 (32%)
2014: 154,100, growth of 36,800 (31%)
2015: 230,800, growth of 76,700 (50%)
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