On Wednesday, Amazon launched its second-largest campus outside the United States in Hyderabad. The event was attended by the Home Minister of Telangana, Mohammad Mahmood Ali, Amazon’s Country Head Amit Agarwal and Amazon Vice President of Global Real Estate and Facilities, John Schoettler.
Housing over 15,000 employees, the new site in Hyderabad, which used more than twice as much steel than the Eiffel Tower in Paris, covers 9.5 acres and has 1.8 million square feet of office space.
Interfaith prayer rooms, quiet rooms, mothers’ rooms, showers, helipads are just some of the facilities available at the campus. According to Amazon India, an inclusive workplace which takes into account the unique needs and demands of every employee would pave the road for increasing employee engagement and productivity.
The campus has an 850,000-litre water recycling plant.
The unveiling in the southern Indian city on Wednesday underscores the company’s expansion plans in the country that has been one of its fastest growing overseas markets.
The new campus in India, costing ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’, will house over 15,000 employees, the company said. Amazon has 62,000 employees in India, roughly a third of whom are based in Hyderabad.Amit Agarwal Amazon India country manager said: ‘The investment to create an office of this size indicates that we are going to continue to grow.’
The company’s vice president of global real estate and facilities, John Schoettler, said the Hyderabad campus would host employees across divisions, including Amazon Web Services.
The Hyderabad campus, the foundation stone for which was laid in March 2016, is the first office outside the United States that Amazon fully owns.
India is considered the last major growth market for the e-commerce giant, but it faces increasing competition from local players.
Founder Jeff Bezos has committed an investment of over $5 billion for India operations as the company seeks to fend off competition from Walmart Inc’s e-commerce unit Flipkart.
Amazon has also been exploring other possible tie-ups with brick-and-mortar retailers in the country.
Amazon started operations in India in 2004 from Hyderabad, but it launched its retail operations only in 2013.
The company has since added video streaming and grocery delivery services under its Prime offerings and is also working on a restaurant food delivery service.
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