Amazon UK is to hire 13,000 temporary members of staff over the Christmas period. These will be based at the e-tailer’s eight fulfilment centres across the UK and its customer service centre in Edinburgh. The announcement comes a week after it announced it was taking on a further 1,000 permanent employees at its fulfilment centres.

“Last year, on the busiest day in the run up to Christmas, our customers ordered 4.1 million items - that's about 47 items ordered per second. The thousands of seasonal associates who join us at this time of year play an integral role in helping us deliver an exceptional experience for our customers during this incredibly busy time,” says John Tagawa, director of UK operations at Amazon. “We look forward to welcoming back those associates who join us each and every Christmas as well as many new faces who are joining the Amazon team for the first time. We're excited to be creating 13,000 seasonal jobs, hundreds of which will lead to permanent, full-time positons. We have created more than 2,000 new permanent roles at our fulfilment centres in the last two years, taking our total permanent fulfilment and customer service centre workforce to over 6,000 employees.”

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