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        <title><![CDATA[Amazon adding 2,000 jobs at NYC’s Lord & Taylor building]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazon said it plans to house more than 2,000 employees at Manhattan&#8217;s historic Lord &amp; Taylor building under a nationwide expansion of its corporate offices.</p><p>The Seattle-based e-tailing giant said Tuesday it will hire the workers to fill the landmark tower on Fifth Avenue over the next few years as it grows its Big Apple &#8220;tech hub&#8221; — a plan that looks like a bold bet on offices, even as the pandemic forces most of its employees to work from home.</p><p>Still, Amazon said it won&#8217;t start moving into the new 630,000-square-foot Midtown office until 2023.</p><p>The new staffers will join Amazon&#8217;s 800 other corporate and tech workers in New York City in supporting its advertising, devices, music, video-streaming, fashion and other businesses. The e-commerce colossus is also expanding its corporate offices in Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Phoenix and San Diego with plans to add about 1,500 jobs across those cities, according to a press release.</p><p>&#8220;As we expand our tech hubs and continue to invest in communities across the country, we’re excited to be creating new jobs and investing in New York with a new office in Manhattan that will allow us to accommodate the organic growth of our business teams in the city,&#8221; Ardine Williams, Amazon&#8217;s vice president of workforce development, said in a statement.</p><p>Amazon planned to bring thousands of staffers to the 11-story building at 424 Fifth Ave. when it acquired it for about $1.1 billion, <strong>The Post reported in March</strong>. WeWork had sought to turn the longtime home of bankrupt retailer Lord &amp; Taylor&#8217;s flagship store into its own corporate headquarters, but scrapped the plans amid a slew of scandals that derailed its public offering.</p><p>Amazon and other tech giants have let employees work from home amid lockdowns aimed at controlling the coronavirus pandemic, which has also driven a surge in demand for online shopping that&#8217;s <strong>led Amazon&#8217;s profits to explode</strong>.</p><p>The company has said employees can work remotely until Jan. 8, but Williams <strong>told the Wall Street Journal</strong> most of its staffers will eventually return to work in person. Amazon did not answer The Post&#8217;s emailed questions about what will happen after January.</p><p>Amazon unveiled its latest New York expansion about a year and a half after abandoning plans for a <strong>sprawling Queens campus</strong> that would have created 25,000 jobs in exchange for about $3 billion in tax breaks and grants. The company walked away after local officials and activists criticized the incentive package.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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