AMAZON.COM TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN ITS MANPOWER AT BOSTON ,TO OPEN NEW OFFICE AND RECRUIT 900 WORKERS

Amazon.com will open a new office in Boston with room for 900 new workers, according to local news reports. The move comes as the e-commerce giant builds its global presence to help recruit top talent for its quickly growing tech operations.

According to the Boston Herald, Amazon already employs more than 1,000 people in the Boston area, a major academic and technology hub. That includes some 700 Massachusetts staffers in a Cambridge office — where some of the language research for Alexa, the company’s digital assistant, takes place — and hundreds more at a robotics facility in nearby North Reading.

The new office, located in 150,000 square feet of space in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston, will be ready next year, the newspaper reported.