After HQ2 decision, Amazon plans suggest expansion, and then a big hiring slowdown


The Amazon Spheres are the visual symbol of Amazon's downtown Seattle campus. Job growth in Seattle is expected to eventually slow with the addition of two new headquarters on the East Coast. Amazon says it has more than 45,000 employees in Seattle, plus around 8,000 open positions. (Kjell Redal/Seattle Times/TNS)

SEATTLE: Amazon's announcement that its headquarters expansion would be in New York City and Northern Virginia answered one question that had been hanging over the Seattle company. 

A big one remains for Amazon's hometown: What happens next here? 

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