Amazon just made a huge promise to Donald Trump.
Amazon announced recently that it plans to create more than 100,000 new full-time jobs in the U.S. in the next 18 months, bringing its total workforce in the country to 280,000.
Much of its current and future workforce is made up of employees working warehouse jobs and answering phones.
"These jobs are not just in our Seattle headquarters or in Silicon Valley - they're in our customer service network, fulfillment centers and other facilities in local communities throughout the country," Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO, said in a statement.
Trump's transition team was quick to take some credit for the announcement.
"The announcement was made after the president-elect met with heads of several other tech companies and urge them to keep their jobs and production inside the United States," Sean Spicer, the incoming press secretary, said on a call with media outlets Thursday. "The president-elect was pleased to have played a role in that decision by Amazon."
It's likely that Amazon would be adding tens of thousands of jobs regardless of who became president as the e-commerce company grows at a rapid pace and adds new fulfillment centers each year to expand its shipping coverage.
Amazon ranks 19th on a list of U.S.-based businesses by total global employees, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Wal-Mart is the largest by far with more than two million employees around the world.
Amazon isn't the first tech company to tout its ambitious plans for hiring.
Jack Ma, Alibaba (BABA, Tech30)'s cofounder and executive chairman, recently visited Trump to tease how the Chinese e-commerce platform could create one million American jobs. Japan's SoftBank's also pledged to invest $50 billion in the U.S.
