{"id":2701,"date":"2018-09-12T08:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2018-09-12T08:15:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T13:15:29","slug":"fedex-to-hire-55000-workers-for-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2701","title":{"rendered":"FedEx To Hire 55,000 Workers For The Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"22\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">(Reuters) &#8211; FedEx Corp said on Wednesday it would hire about 55,000 workers and increase hours for some existing employees for the holiday shopping season as the U.S. package delivery company prepares to cater to the expected jump in shipments due to online shopping boom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"23\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The company said it would also expand its U.S. ground-shipping operations to six and seven days per week for the busiest shopping season of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"24\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">FedEx said the six-day ground-shipping operations would be extended throughout its U.S. network all-year round.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"25\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;The rise in demand for e-commerce goes beyond peak. It&#8217;s a year-round phenomenon&#8230;,&#8221; said Raj Subramaniam, chief marketing and communications officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"27\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">(Reporting by Ankit Ajmera in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"27\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2702\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fedex777-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fedex777-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fedex777-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fedex777.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; FedEx Corp said on Wednesday it would hire about 55,000 workers and increase hours for some existing employees for the holiday shopping season as the U.S. package delivery company prepares to cater to the expected jump in shipments due to online shopping boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,868],"tags":[1200,458,1555,1548,1552,1551,1550,412,1557,1288,1554,1556,1553,1549],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","category-transportation-news","tag-e-commerce","tag-fedex","tag-ground","tag-hire","tag-holiday","tag-hours","tag-increase","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-reuters","tag-season","tag-shipping","tag-shopping","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}