John Lewis director says redundancies paving way for ‘better-quality jobs’

Naomi Simcock

John Lewis Partnership (JLP) operations director Naomi Simcock has said that “better-quality jobs” are being created by the retailer, despite the group planning to cut 11,000 jobs in five years. 

Speaking at the Smart Retail Tech Expo this week, Simcock said: “I was in one of our supply chain depots where we’re rolling out robots at the moment, and the picking robots are super cool, but they’re removing jobs.” However, workers didn’t enjoy these roles and “now they have a (different) job over here.”

 

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