Holly Sullivan and John Schoettler

For the global real estate and facilities team, Vice President John Schottler noted that meant quickly implementing major changes at scale across all global offices to ensure that employees who needed to could get in and use the office safely.

The e-commerce giant remains committed to creating 25,000 jobs and investing $2.5 billion in Arlington, Va., home of Amazon’s second headquarters, HQ2, over the next decade, including its recent $20 million gift to Arlington’s Affordable Housing Investment Fund.

“Just minutes away from Washington, D.C., our development at HQ2 will bring large public green spaces, significant new local retailers, small women- and minority-owned businesses, a strong connection to nature, and bar-raising sustainability measures that the entire community can enjoy,” Schottler said. “We are committed to building an 18-hour neighborhood for Amazon employees, our neighbors and visitors to come to, not just pass through.”

Despite the challenges the last year presented, Amazon saw an incredible opportunity and responsibility to deliver for communities and customers — from delivering essential items safely, to creating jobs for hundreds of thousands of people, to investing billions of dollars to keep its employees safe.

“In addition to making things work better for our employees, we also continued investing in the communities in which we operate,” Schoettler said. “We provided more than $15 million to over 900 local small businesses in the Puget Sound region between our Neighborhood Small Business Relief Fund and additional rent relief provided since the start of the pandemic last year. We also were able to formally open the Mary’s Place Family Center in Seattle. The timing was immediately life-saving for families experiencing homelessness.”