Amazon has fallen so far behind schedule in creating new jobs at its Northern Virginia headquarters that its workforce at those offices shrank last year, the company confirmed, showing how the project that it had pitched as an economic jolt is instead hitting a slowdown.
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Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead.
The tech giant’s deal with Virginia had it hiring more than 2,500 employees at its new Arlington headquarters in 2023. But it lost hundreds of workers there last year.
By Teo Armus
Updated April 16, 2024 at 4:55 p.m. EDT|Published April 16, 2024 at 9:53 a.m. EDT