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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Where does it say all the staff being recruited will be temporary? Sorry if I've missed it.
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To ensure that Christmas deliveries run smoothly this year City Link is adding an extra 1168 fleet collection and delivery drivers to its workforce to handle peak collections – 433 agency drivers and 735 subcontractors
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Given the article is about how City Link plan on handling Christmas it seems reasonable to think that the staff surrounding these temporary delivery drivers will, likewise, be temporary else the mismanagement runs even deeper than any of us could've imagined. Hiring 1168 agency / subcontractors to handle the Christmas rush and supporting them with a few hundred new permanent warehouse based staff would be very odd.
The PR blurb even mentions 'using' 14 more forklifts and 963 more hand-held scanners, not 'purchasing', 'investing in', or whatever else. Sounds like these were leased too.
Either way a delivery company isn't going to increase its workforce by 50% in permanent staff to cover Christmas, the total permanent workforce was less than 3,000.