Amazon is to hire more than 10,000 temporary staff at its UK packing centres to help it manage what is expected to be unprecedented demand over the Christmas period.
Analysts espect Amazon’s sales over Christmas to outstrip those for the same period in 2011, when the retail giant’s UK packing plants shipped over 2.1m items in the space of 24 hours.
“On our busiest shopping day last Christmas, we saw customers order a total of three million items during one 24-hour period at a rate of 35 items every second,” said Catherine McDermott, Amazon’s director of operations. “We look forward to welcoming a good number of new faces to our centres [and] welcoming back temporary employees who join us every year.”
In addition to re-hiring staff from previous Christmases, Amazon has taken thousands of temporary staff on as permament workers over the last few years. “We are a company in growth and when we have permanent positions to fill, it’s the top performing temporary employees we look to,” Ms McDermott said.
The business, which is headquartered in Seattle, has eight packing centres in the UK where staff package up everything from books to electronic goods and clothes.
They include its 450,000 square foot site at Hemel Hempstead which created 600 jobs when it opened earlier this year.
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