Amazon's secret HQ reveals employee cost of cloak-and-dagger business

Amazon staff might have unwittingly revealed the site of the online retail giant’s planned second headquarters after curious employees rushed to view a local news website – Telegraph reports.

The Seattle-founded firm have been on the hunt for a location to house a new £3.6 billion HQ which they speculate will also create 50,000 high-paying jobs. Yet, their decision making process has been rather clandestine.

Until, that is, a local news site from the US state of Virginia received a spike in traffic from an internal webpage at Amazon.com.

"Eagle-eyed readers of this site may have noticed something odd in this past Friday’s weekend discussion post: namely, the inclusion of an article from December among the most-viewed stories of the week," an article published Tuesday on Arlnow.com stated.