Amazon knows its workforce.
The Seattle-based e-commerce giant recently opened its Woodbury Sort Center with about 300 employees. Many are of Somali descent, so the 520,000-square-foot facility — the first Amazon facility in the east metro — includes signs in Somali. Translation services also are provided.
Three prayer rooms and pre-prayer ablution stations for Muslim purification rituals of washing the hands, head and feet are located throughout the site. Each prayer room and ablution station has separate areas for women and men to wash and pray.
