16,000 More Permanent Tesco Jobs Planned as Online Sales Soar

Tesco delivery driver Paul Bradbury leaves work after he completes his delivery round, following the outbreak of the CCP virus in Stoke-on-Trent, Britain, on May 25, 2020. Reuters/Carl Recine

Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket chain, will create 16,000 new permanent jobs due to a huge increase in its online business during the CCP virus pandemic, the company announced on Monday.

The supermarket said in a statement that it expects most of the new permanent roles will be taken up by existing temporary staff who signed up during the crisis and now want to stay permanently with the company.

Continued Growth

Tesco’s online capacity grew to more than twice the size it was before the pandemic, as thousands of new online customers, including vulnerable customers, signed up for home deliveries during the lockdown, which began at the end of March to slow the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.