US-based e-commerce mammoth Amazon is planning to increase its permanent workforce in France to 7,500 in 2018 through an addition of 2,000 permanent contract positions. Notably, it added 1,500 jobs in France in 2017.
The new jobs will be across Amazon’s distribution centres and also in its Paris region offices.
Amazon has made an investment of more than 2 billion euros since 2010 in France, the largest market of e-retailer in Europe after Britain and Germany.
By its slow expansion in France, Amazon launched its Amazon Prime Now express delivery service in Paris in 2016. It had also established a branch there in the year 2015.
It currently operates five logistics centres across the country and is now planning to start a 142,000-square-foot delivery warehouse in 2018.
“We have more customers, so more business, and as we have more business, we hire more,” quoted Frederic Duval, head of Amazon France.
The announcement of job creation has come close on the heels of agreement between Amazon and French tax authorities to settle past tax dispute. French authorities wanted around €200 million from the online retailer as tax.
Amazon has been working extensively for its base expasion locally and globally. It is now also eyeing to grab the Indian e-commerce market.
