NEW YORK: Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its own employees with a proposition: Quit your job and we'll help you start a business delivering Amazon packages. Amazon says it will cover up to $10,000 in startup costs for employees who are accepted into the program and leave their jobs. The offer is open to most part-time and full-time Amazon employees, including warehouse workers who pack and ship orders. The new employee incentive is part of a program Amazon started a year ago that let anyone apply to launch an independent Amazon delivery business and provided $10,000 in reimbursements to military veterans. Overall, more than 200 Amazon delivery businesses have been created since it launched the program last June, says John Felton, Amazon's vice president of global delivery services.

Source: Mint May 13, 2019 19:41 UTC