Amazon is starting to recruit and lease office space for Virginia's HQ2 & # 39;

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc. announced Monday it has rented offices and posted several jobs for its second headquarters outside Washington, DC, beginning more than a decade ago. investment and hiring sought by cities in North America.

In a blog post, the world's largest online retailer said it was set to create 400 jobs at the future campus in Arlington, Virginia, this year. New recruits will be working in a temporary space on Crystal Drive in June, the company wishing to open its first building in the fall.

Jobs have been coveted by hundreds of Canadian communities in Mexico since 2017, when Seattle-based Amazon announced it would spend more than $ 5 billion and create up to 50,000 jobs on a second campus called " HQ2 ".

The company finally split the price between big Washington and New York, the political and financial capitals of the United States, after more than a year of stunt advertising and promises of tax breaks to attract the attention of Amazon .

In February, Amazon abandoned plans for New York after local opposition to the campus project. Under the agreement with Virginia, the company will create 25,000 additional jobs and receive $ 573 million in performance-based incentives, including an average of $ 22,000 for each job created.

Up to now, four positions were dedicated to procurement and one to human resources.

Ardine Williams, author of Amazon's blog post, said that she had recently moved from Seattle to Arlington and that she was in charge of developing the workforce of the company. society.