New York (CNN Business) Amazon wants its employees to quit their jobs and create their own delivery businesses. It turns out that's an expensive proposition. So Amazon is upping the ante.

In June 2018, Amazon announced US employees could apply to start their own small businesses, delivering Prime packages in Amazon-branded vans and uniforms.

The company hoped it could fill its huge need for people to bring packages from local Amazon sorting centers to the customers who ordered them.

Amazon AMZN Althoughsaid tens of thousands of employees expressed interest in the program, the company acknowledged Monday many of its workers couldn't afford the start-up money they needed to get the businesses off the ground.

So Amazon announced it will now give employees up to $10,000 of the start-up money they will need, along with three months of their existing Amazon pay, as a way of getting the capital they need to get into the service.

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