The world’s largest online mail order company Amazon does not want to increase its number of employees in view of the risks of inflation and recession for the time being. Amazon manager Beth Galetti announced on Thursday in the company blog that the group management had decided to take a hiring break for the coming months because of the uncertain economic situation and the many employees hired in recent years. Depending on the business areas and needs – for example in the case of staff departures – individual employees would continue to be hired. Amazon recently had around 1.54 million employees worldwide. (dpa)