There were 82,435 new claims for unemployment benefits in Washington state last week, a 42% decline from the week prior. Total claims for unemployment benefits in the state now exceed… Read More
More than 150,000 people in Washington state filed jobless claims for the first time last week as many businesses buckle under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown orders.… Read More
Amazon is planning to hire an additional 100,000 warehouse workers to keep up with the volume of orders placed by customers amid a global COVID-19 outbreak. Amazon said Monday it… Read More
Tech jobs are concentrating in a handful of “superstar cities” including Seattle and San Francisco, dispelling predictions that the opportunity afforded by the innovation economy would ultimately be dispersed across… Read More
Editor’s note: This story and headline were updated to clarify that the average wage numbers include non-wage cash payments such as bonuses, travel expenses, 401K plans, and stock options. The… Read More
Glassdoor’s list of the 50 Best Jobs in America is dominated by tech in 2020, with seven of the top 10 spots and nearly half of the complete list going… Read More
It’s been a tough year for tech, and the barrage of negative headlines dogging the industry may be hitting companies in one of their most sensitive spots: recruiting. Glassdoor’s new… Read More
Seattle, San Francisco and other tech hubs are capturing a growing percentage of innovation jobs in the United States, according to a new Brookings Institution report. This “crisis of regional… Read More
Amazon plans to hire 200,000 seasonal workers this year, twice as many as last year, suggesting that it expects a strong holiday shopping season. Much of the hiring will take… Read More
The only way you would maybe be upset about the money you make at your tech job is if you checked out the salaries of your friends who went on… Read More
Amazon is hosting a ‘Career Day’ on Tuesday across six cities — Seattle, Arlington, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Nashville — in a bid to fill more than 30,000 job openings.… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Elon Musk’s SpaceX are often at odds, but there’s at least one place where those two space-industry rivals are on the same page:… Read More
Microsoft’s brand reputation is looking pretty healthy when it comes to what tech workers regard as desirable places to work. The findings are part of the “2019 Global Brand Health… Read More
Amazon is now the biggest Big Tech employer in the Seattle region, surpassing Microsoft, according to new data released Monday. Amazon confirmed it surpassed 50,000 employees in Seattle proper in… Read More
Amazon will hold a “Career Day” on Sept. 17 across six cities to help fill the more than 30,000 available jobs at the company, including warehouse workers, retail jobs and… Read More
A modern analysis of Jeff Bezos’ first-ever job ad for Amazon, posted 25 years ago today, shows that the ad would rate “very weak” by today’s standards and even offers… Read More
In the battle for tech hub supremacy, Seattle still trails the San Francisco Bay Area in CBRE’s annual Scoring Tech Talent Report, a ranking of the top 50 North American… Read More
Amazon is embarking on a $700 million effort to retrain its U.S. workforce, in a high-profile acknowledgment of the impact of technology and automation on jobs and the workforce. The… Read More
The West Coast’s tech hubs are leading the nation in the race to grow employment in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. STEM jobs increased 8.2 percent in Los Angeles… Read More
Amazon plans hire 400 tech workers in Denver, Colo., more than doubling the tech giant’s presence in the region. The news: Today Amazon announced it will open a new office… Read More
Amazon HQ2 is accepting applications. The Seattle tech company posted five job listings over the weekend for its new Arlington, Va. campus. The first openings at Amazon’s so-called second headquarters… Read More
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan seems unfazed by news that Amazon plans to shift thousands of jobs to Bellevue, Wash. GeekWire reported Wednesday that Amazon is moving its Seattle-based worldwide operations… Read More
Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees to its new campus just across Lake Washington, according to an… Read More
Amazon is hiring 800 new tech workers in Austin and expanding into a new 145,000-square foot office in the Texas city. On Thursday, the company announced plans to grow its… Read More
Generation Z wants a piece of the tech pie — the jobs, the companies and the cities — according to a new study released Wednesday by Glassdoor. The job review… Read More
Over the weekend, the first job listings cropped up for Amazon HQ2, the now imprecise moniker for the 50,000-person second headquarters Amazon plans to establish across two cities: New York… Read More
The Amazon HQ2 hullaballoo threw two important economic trends into sharp relief over the past year. The first is communities across the United States are starving for tech jobs. That… Read More
It’s a lot to ask to expect praise from President Donald Trump on Twitter. But the president did manage to tweet out a very real “thank you” to Apple CEO… Read More
Amazon HQ2 became a media spectacle because of the promise to bring 50,000 new jobs to a single community. News that Amazon would split its second headquarters between two cities,… Read More
LinkedIn has a ton of data — thanks to 575 million worldwide members, 20 million companies and 15 million job listings — and now it will let companies buy in… Read More