Amazon will instead fill the positions in cities throughout the country.
Most of the 25,000 jobs that were supposed to come to Amazon ‘s HQ2 in New York City will now go elsewhere, now that Amazon has announced it’s backing out of its agreement with the city.
Amazon’s spokesperson told CNBC on Thursday that the bulk of the 25,000 jobs that the company had promised to create in New York City for HQ2 will now go to other corporate offices and tech hubs owned by Amazon across 17 North American cities, including Boston, San Francisco and Vancouver.
New York will still get a small portion of the new jobs created, as Amazon has a huge presence in the city with roughly 5,000 employees. But it’s unclear exactly how much of the new jobs will go to New York City, as the 25,000 jobs were scheduled to be created over a 15-year period, the spokesperson said.
