Retail giant Amazon to create 5,000 UK jobs

Delivery and online retail giant Amazon is creating 5,000 full-time jobs across the UK.

The roles will include developer roles at its Shoreditch head office, and customer service centre in Edinburgh and other working on its drone delivery and voice recognition services.

The company said it would employ as many seasonal workers as permanent staff to deal with demand.

Amazon has several major sites in Yorkshire including a 134,000 sq ft warehouse near Meadowhall, an 80,000 sq ft site at Logic Leeds

It will employ 1,000 people in Doncaster after new iPort accommodation is built and it signed a deal with Bradford-based Morrisons last year to deliver products through its Amazon Pantry brand.

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