Amazon on Thursday announced it will create 7,000 permanent jobs across the UK by the end of 2020, bringing its permanent workforce in the country to over 40,000. Since the beginning of this year, Amazon has already hired 3,000 permanent workers to meet increasing demand.
Stefano Perego, Amazon’s vice president of European Customer Fulfilment, said that Amazon has “played a critical role in serving customers in these unprecedented times“ and that the new roles will help the company to continue ”to meet customer demand and support small and medium sized businesses selling on Amazon.”
