Amazon just delivered an olive branch to Donald Trump. 
 
 Amazon (AMZN) announced Thursday that it plans to create more than 100,000 new full-time jobs in the U.S. in the next 18 months, bringing its total workforce in the country to 280,000. 
 
 Don't expect Amazon to hire 100,000 coders, however. Much of its current and future workforce is made up of employees working warehouse jobs and answering phones. 
 
 "These jobs are not just in our Seattle headquarters or in Silicon Valley -- they're in our customer service network, fulfillment centers and other facilities in local communities throughout the country," Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO, said in a statement. 
 
 Trump's transition team was quick to take some credit for the announcement. 
 
 "The announcement was made after the president-elect met with heads of several other tech companies and urge them to keep their jobs and production inside the United States," Sean Spicer, the incoming press secretary, said on a call with media outlets Thursday. "The president-elect was pleased to have played a role in that decision by Amazon." 
 
 It's likely Amazon would be adding tens of thousands of jobs regardless of who became president as the e-commerce company grows at a rapid pace and adds new fulfillment centers each year to expand its shipping coverage. 
 
 "The bottom line is they were going to create jobs anyway, but it's the messaging that has changed," says James Cakmak, an analyst with Monness, Crespi, Hardt. This announcement "appears to calibrate to current political sensitivities." 
 
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 Amazon ranks 19th on a list of U.S.-based businesses by total global employees, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Wal-Mart (WMT) is the largest by far with more than two million employees around the world. 
 
 The jobs Amazon creates must also be weighed against the untold number of jobs it may eliminate through automation and helping drive brick-and-mortar retailers out of business. Just last month, Amazon was derided as a "job killer" by conservative media for unveiling a new grocery store without cashiers. 
 
 Trump repeatedly took aim at Bezos on the campaign trail, at least in part because he owns the Washington Post. 
 
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 "[The Post] is owned as a toy by Jeff Bezos who controls Amazon," Trump said in one interview. "Amazon is getting away with murder tax-wise. He's using the Washington Post for power so that the politicians in Washington don't tax Amazon like they should be taxed." 
 
 In another speech, Trump promised Amazon, "If I become president, oh do they have problems. They're going to have such problems." 
 
 Bezos, for his part, returned fire by accusing the candidate of "eroding our democracy" and joking about sending him into space with one of his Blue Origin rockets. 
 
 But now Trump is about to be president -- and Bezos probably does not want "such problems." 
 
 Bezos congratulated Trump shortly after winning the election. "I for one give him my most open mind and wish him great success in his service to the country," he tweeted. 
 
 Bezos was also one of about a dozen tech execs to meet with Trump in New York for a meeting arranged by billionaire investor Peter Thiel. 
 
 Amazon isn't the first tech company to tout its ambitious plans for hiring. 
 
 Jack Ma, Alibaba (BABA)'s cofounder and executive chairman, recently visited Trump to tease how the Chinese e-commerce platform could create one million American jobs. Japan's SoftBank's also pledged to invest $50 billion in the U.S. 
 
 Noah Gray contributed reporting. ||||| CLOSE Amazon will create 100,000 full-time jobs in the United States with full benefits over the next 18 months, the tech giant announced in a statement Thursday. USA TODAY NETWORK 
 
 Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos. (Photo: 2012 photo by Joe Klamar, AFP/Getty Images) 
 
 Amazon will create 100,000 full-time jobs in the United States with full benefits over the next 18 months, the tech giant announced in a statement Thursday. 
 
 The Seattle-based company says the positions are for workers across the country and across all skill and experience levels. Most of the positions will be at fulfillment centers, including new ones under construction in California, Florida, New Jersey and Texas. The new employees will also work in areas such as cloud technology, machine learning and advanced logistics. 
 
 "Innovation is one of our guiding principles at Amazon, and it’s created hundreds of thousands of American jobs," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. "These jobs are not just in our Seattle headquarters or in Silicon Valley — they’re in our customer service network, fulfillment centers and other facilities in local communities throughout the country." 
 
 The topic of new jobs in the U.S. has become a popular one as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office. Last week, Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma met with Trump, saying Alibaba will create 1 million jobs in the U.S. by allowing small businesses to sell goods to Chinese and Asian consumers through the tech giant's platform. 
 
 Last month, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son met with the president-elect, pledging to add 50,000 U.S. jobs and pump $50 billion into the economy. 
 
 Bezos and Trump had clashed leading up to last year's presidential election. Bezos criticized Trump for how he managed his campaign, even joking about sending him to space via his aerospace company, Blue Origin. In an interview last year, Trump claims Amazon has "a huge antitrust problem." 
 
 Shortly after Trump won the election, Bezos appeared to make amends, offering his congratulations on Twitter. "I for one give him my most open mind and wish him great success in his service to the country," he wrote. 
 
 Amazon has quickly ramped up its workforce over the last few years, as it pushes to open up more fulfillment centers to get packages out to its customers more quickly. In 2011, Amazon had 30,000 full-time employees in the U.S. At the end of last year, it employed 180,000 people. 
 
 As part of the hiring spree, Amazon says it will also hire an additional 25,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years. Amazon says it plans to train 10,000 active duty service members, veterans and military spouses not employed by the company in cloud computing. 
 
 Amazon has seen "tremendous" demand for its retail service as well as a fast-growing cloud business, Edward Jones analyst Josh Olson says on why Amazon is hungry for more workers. Amazon is increasingly emphasizing convenience of its retail service, such as Same-Day Delivery options, as its edge on pricing dulls with the introduction of state sales taxes. 
 
 "As that advantage dissipates, they’re focusing more on convenience, which is getting the product to your door as quickly as possible," Olson says. 
 
 Amazon isn’t the only company making it big. The Internet represents approximately 6% of the total U.S. economy, according to an economic policy white paper released by The Internet Society on Thursday. 
 
 Contributing: Elizabeth Weise in San Francisco. 
 
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– Amazon is creating 100,000 new full-time jobs in the US, mostly for positions answering phones or working in warehouses, over the next year and a half, CNN reports. That will bring the company's total workforce up to 280,000. Amazon made the announcement Thursday, and the Trump team quickly moved to take some credit for it, with incoming press secretary Sean Spicer says Trump "was pleased to have played a role" in the decision. Amazon would likely have added the jobs regardless of who's moving into the White House: It's growing rapidly and building new warehouses in Florida, Texas, New Jersey, and California, according to USA Today. The company grew from 30,000 employees in 2011 to 180,000 employees in 2016.