Stoughton Amazon Warehouse Not Delivering Promised Jobs: Report

STOUGHTON, MA — Amazon received a deal worth $3.5 million in local and state tax incentives in 2014 to bring a warehouse to the old Reebok building on Technology Center Drive and 125 full-time jobs. So far, the commerce giant is falling short on the job front.

A review of a filing with the Baker administration by the Boston Business Journal shows that there were 70 full-time workers at the Amazon warehouse at the end of 2017. That's only 56 percent of the promised figure the company agreed to under their tax-break agreements. At the time, the company promised to bring 125 full-time jobs to town.

While not the expectation, it's an improvement from the 38 full-time workers that were there at the end of 2016.

When asked about the job figures, an Amazon spokesperson said there are hundreds of part-time workers who received health care benefits and 1,000 full-time employees at their Fall River fulfillment center.

Despite not hitting the promised numbers, Amazon is in no danger of losing their tax breaks. State law allows a company to keep their tax breaks as long as they hire half the workers they said they would.

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