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Online technology retailer AO World is to create 650 new jobs as part of a major recruitment drive after the coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital sales. It said the new recruits will help the company to manage the sustained increase in demand seen in recent months. AO said staff are needed across its business, from supply chain roles to customer service positions. The Bolton-based business was founded in 2000 and has grown to employ around 3,000 employees. Chief executive John Roberts said the company was fit and focused prior to the pandemic but was immediately boosted by consumer habits shifting towards online retailers.
A food factory in Northampton where almost 300 people tested positive for coronavirus has been temporarily closed down. A total of 287 cases were recently confirmed at the Greencore site in the town. The factory employs more than 2,000 people and makes sandwiches for M&S. The factory conducted its own testing programme after 79 workers tested positive for Covid-19 through the national NHS tests. That testing programme went on to identify more than 200 additional confirmed cases.
Catering employees who work at Glasgow's Scottish Events Campus (SEC) are to be made redundant. Levy UK, the venue's caterers, confirmed on Friday that its casual workers were being paid off. The business refused to confirm how many staff are affected, but it is understood to be fewer than 500. Levy said that the ongoing pandemic made it unlikely that catered events would take place at the SEC for the foreseeable future. In April, the site was transformed into a £38m temporary hospital, the NHS Louisa Jordan, but it has not been needed during the outbreak.
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