LONDON (Reuters) – Amazon.com mentioned it could recruit 4,000 employees in Britain this year, together with at fulfilment centres in Wakefield and Knowsley, taking its everlasting workforce to 75,000 and making it one of many nation’s top-10 private-sector employers.
The firm, which held its largest ever “Prime Day” international procuring occasion on July 12 and 13, mentioned 56% of its new hires in its British operations groups in the primary half of the year have been beforehand unemployed or had joined straight from schooling.
(Reporting by Paul Sandle; enhancing by William James)
