Amazon Tuesday announced that it will hire more than 3,000 seasonal, part-time and full-time employees in Metro Richmond, as part of a nationwide effort to hire some 250,000 such employees across its operations network. In all, about 9,000 of those jobs will be in Virginia, according to
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On Dec. 19, a team of Amazon employees celebrated the holiday season by delivering a truckload of goods to Virginia Home for Boys and Girls and donating $25,000 as well. The truck contained thousands of essential items from household goods and toiletries to games, art supplies, and clothes. Amazon’
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Amazon announced recently that it is expanding the career advancement opportunities it offers its hourly employees by partnering with more than 140 national and local universities to provide fully-funded college tuition. In the Richmond area, employees will have access to an education from Reynolds Community College, Virginia Commonwealth University, and
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For the first time ever, Henrico County is planning to issue a real estate “dividend” to property owners as the result of its historically strong financial situation, Henrico County Manager John Vithoulkas announced Thursday morning during his annual “State of the County” address at the Hilton Richmond Hotel and Spa
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For months, speculation that Amazon was building a massive facility on land at the Richmond Raceway complex grew. Wednesday, that speculation became reality as the company and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced that the company is building a 650,000-square-foot robotics fulfillment center on 119 acres there, in Henrico'
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