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Amazon is planning on bringing hundreds of jobs to the Chicagoland area.

The expansion of its Chicago Tech Hub comes as some of the retailer’s warehouse workers here plan a walkout at two facilities to protest pay and working conditions.

Amazon is leasing a fourth building at The Domain to accommodate the addition of 2,000 new jobs in its Austin Tech Hub.

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Josh Dittrich grew his Amazon side hustle that he started in 2016 to make millions in sales. He grew quickly by identifying holes in the marketplace and doing plenty of data analysis. He's currently selling it to Amazon aggregator Elevate Brands in a deal worth more than $10 million. In the Amazon seller space, Josh Dittrich, 36, is one of the more veteran players.  By his reckoning, he's been working in the category since approximately 2009 — unless you ...

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Dr. Robin Gaster is the CEO of Incumetrics and a visiting scholar at George Washington University Institute for Public Policy. In it, he reveals how Amazon's structure allows for the quick formation of small, agile teams. The following is a book excerpt. Amazon is famously organized into small "two-pizza" (8 -10 person) teams. This directly adds flexibility and agility. Small teams can move quickly. Amazon's two-pizza teams are agile, developed flexible inter-team structures, offer clarity or purpose, and are fast to innovate. The...