Indian employees walking at the entrance of Amazon's newly inaugurated largest campus building in Hyderabad. India is also a major source of employment for Amazon's global operations with some 62,000 full-time staff and 155,000 contract employees. — AFP
HYDERABAD, India: With 49 elevators moving a floor per second and zumba classes for its more than 15,000 employees, Amazon's new Indian headquarters, its biggest building globally, matches its ambitions in a vast but challenging market.
The US retail giant launched its first site in the South Asian nation of 1.3 billion people in 2013 and is locked in a fierce battle with Walmart, which bought a 77% share in local e-commerce behemoth Flipkart for US$16bil (RM66.87bil) last year.
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