Amazon opens its largest campus in Hyderabad

Global e-commerce giant Amazon has inaugurated its largest campus building in Hyderabad that will house over 15,000 employees of its over 62,000 employee base in India. With 15,000 work points across 1.8 million square feet in office space, built on 3 million square feet of construction area, this is Amazon’s single largest building in the world in terms of total area. The infrastructure has been developed in adherence to Amazon’s exacting standards, designed to facilitate inclusion of employees with special needs and support its diverse workforce.

The company also said that this campus is Amazon’s first owned office building outside the US, and is the single largest building globally. “We are excited to inaugurate our largest campus building globally here in India at Hyderabad. This new Amazon campus building is a tangible commitment to that long-term thinking and our plans for India,” Amit Agarwal, Senior Vice President and Country Manager, Amazon India, said.

Amazon laid the foundation stone for the campus building on March 30, 2016. An average of 2,000 workers was on site every day for 39 months to construct the building, spending 18

million man-hours to create a world-class working environment. Amazon first started operations in India in 2004 from Hyderabad. The state of Telangana is now home to a third of Amazon’s total India employee base across six offices, including the new campus building. ■