The company has benefited from a profound change in shopping habits since the onset of the coronavirus and has already taken on 3,000 new staffAmazon is to create 10,000 new permanent jobs in Britain this year after increasing its hiring during the lockdown. The online retailer has already hired 3,000 new employees this year and plans to take on a further 7,000 by the end of the year, increasing its headcount in the UK to 40,000. Amazon, which is America’s third largest company, is responding to a significant shift in spending patterns over recent months, which has meant housebound consumers buying more from internet retailers. Online spending rose 50.4 per cent between February and July and accounts for 28.9 per cent of total retail sales, according to the most recent data from the Office for National Statistics. The technology giant said that the new positions would include engineers, human

Source: The Times September 03, 2020 11:03 UTC