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The
company said it opened a consultation to close three older
British warehouses this year in Hemel Hampstead, Doncaster and
Gourock, sites employing 1,200 people in one of Amazon's biggest
markets outside the United States.
Those employees will be given the chance to move jobs
internally, said Amazon, with those from the first two sites
moving to other warehouses nearby. Amazon says it operates 30
large warehouses across the United Kingdom.
Amazon said it planned to open two new warehouses in central and
north east England over the next three years, a move it said
will create 2,500 new jobs.
The Seattle-based online retailing giant said earlier in January
it wants to shed 18,000 roles globally, bracing for slower
growth as consumers and businesses cut spending as a result of
high inflation.
The planned closing of the British warehouses are not part of
the wider restructuring which mainly covers non-warehouse roles
in e-commerce and human resources.
Separately, Amazon's UK business has also faced demands for
better pay from its warehouse staff, about 300 of whom plan to
go on strike on Jan. 25.
(Reporting by Akash Sriram, Sachin Ravikumar and Sarah Young,
Editing by Kylie MacLellan and Frank Jack Daniel)
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