Amazon today said it plans to create 3,500 new technology and corporate jobs at its hubs in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York, Phoenix, and San Diego.

The company is taking a different tack as millions of professionals work from home and most large U.S. companies have closed or, in some cases, abandoned corporate campuses amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Amazon last month said most corporate employees can continue working remotely until early 2021. Many other major corporations have slowed hiring or initiated hiring freezes. 

Amazon’s increased investment in office-based employees stands out during an extended period of uncertainty with many employers and their workforces confronting a global pandemic that has no apparent end in sight.

Cisco and other major technology firms promised to cut no jobs during the early weeks of the pandemic. But on his company’s earnings call last week, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins unveiled a $1 billion cut on expenses “over the next few quarters.”

The cloud and e-commerce giant said it will invest more than $1.4 billion in offices and staff located in the six U.S. cities to support multiple divisions, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, OpsTech, and Amazon Fresh. Various roles for cloud infrastructure architects, software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and user experience designers will be added, according to the company.

“People from all walks of life come to Amazon to develop their career — from recent graduates looking for a place to turn their ideas into high-impact products, to veterans accessing new jobs in cloud computing thanks to our upskilling programs,” Beth Galetti, SVP of human resources at Amazon, said in a prepared statement.

Amazon is adding more than 100,000 square feet of space and 600 jobs in Dallas, acquiring more than 25,000 square feet of office space in Detroit for an additional 100 jobs, and adding 20,000 square feet of office space in Denver to support 100 new jobs. Amazon also acquired the Lord & Taylor Fifth Avenue building in Manhattan where it plans to open a 630,000 square-foot office to support 2,000 new jobs.

In the Southwest and West Coast, Amazon said it is expanding its Phoenix hub by 90,000 square feet to add more than 500 new jobs and adding more than 40,000 square feet of office space in San Diego to support 200 new jobs.

Amazon company stock has surged amid the worst economic recession since the financial crisis of 2008. Amazon’s market cap is now $1.65 trillion, up 80% since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic five months ago. 

The company hired 100,000 people in March and later added an additional 75,000 workers amid rising demand for its services. Amazon said it now has more than 876,000 employees worldwide. Unlike the majority of recent hires, the latest pledge for an additional 3,500 jobs is specifically tied to high-paying technology and corporate roles.