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Amazon to add 12,000 jobs in Georgia, including greater Athens area

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Amazon is going on a hiring spree, expecting to add a quarter million workers for full-time, seasonal, and part-time jobs, including at least 12,000 here in Georgia. The company operates several fulfillment centers in the state including one near Savannah, one near Augusta, and one located in the greater Athens area in Jefferson.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
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