14/10/2014

Amazon To Create 1,000 New Jobs

Amazon has announced it will create 1,000 new permanent roles at its UK fulfilment centres in the coming months.

There are currently 6,000 permanent employees in Amazon fulfilment and customer service centres in the UK.

"Over the past two years, we have added well in excess of 2,000 new employees to our workforce and we are delighted to be able to add a further 1,000 to that number over the coming months," said John Tagawa, Director of UK Operations at Amazon. "We have continued to focus day in, day out on providing the very best shopping experience for our customers and as we see greater demand, we are able to rapidly grow our talented team across the UK."

(CD)

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