Tesco creates 16,000 new permanent roles

25 Aug '20

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Tesco, a UK-based retailer company, has announced that it will create 16,000 new permanent roles to support the growth in its online business. These are in addition to the 4,000 permanent jobs already created since the start of Covid-19 pandemic. The roles will include 10,000 pickers to assemble customer orders and 3,000 drivers to deliver them.

Also a variety of other roles will be included in stores and distribution centres.

The supermarket expects the majority of these roles to be filled by colleagues who joined on a temporary basis at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, but who now want to stay with the business permanently. Roles will first be offered to these temporary colleagues, with remaining vacancies then recruited externally.

In April, Tesco became the first retailer to fulfil one million online grocery orders in a week. Tesco now serves nearly 1.5 million customers a week online, up from around 600,000 at the start of the pandemic. As the supermarket’s online business continues to grow, the number of new roles may increase further in the coming months.

“Since the start of the pandemic, our colleagues have helped us to more than double our online capacity, safely serving nearly 1.5 million customers every week and prioritising vulnerable customers to ensure they get the food they need. These new roles will help us continue to meet online demand for the long term, and will create permanent employment opportunities for 16,000 people across the UK,” Jason Tarry, Tesco UK & ROI CEO, said in a press release.

Recruitment across other Tesco business areas continues as normal. While details are still being finalised, Tesco plans to support the government’s Kickstart scheme and expects to offer places to 1,000 young people once the scheme launches.

The supermarket will also continue to run its apprenticeships and programmes aimed at bringing in school leavers and graduates, with more than 80 young people set to join schemes across stores, distribution centres and offices next month. Almost 50 students also joined Tesco’s summer internship programme this year, which ran as planned and was delivered virtually.

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