Tesco to Create 16,000 Permanent Roles as Online Sales Boom

Tesco Plc plans to create permanent roles for 16,000 new workers in its online business, underlining a pandemic-fueled shift to e-commerce that’s wiping out jobs in the U.K.’s shopping districts.

Britain’s largest supermarket operator said the positions are in addition to 4,000 permanent roles already created since Covid-19 emerged. A majority of the jobs will be filled by workers who joined on a temporary basis during the pandemic, it said.