E-commerce giant Amazon.com to hire 4,000 workers in Britain

E-commerce giant Amazon.com said it would recruit 4,000 workers in Britain this year, including at fulfillment centers in Wakefield and Knowsley, taking its permanent workforce to 75,000.
Amazon.com held its biggest ever Prime Day global shopping event on July 12 and 13. Amazon.com said 56 percent of its new hires in its British operations teams in the first half of the year were previously unemployed or had joined directly from education.