UPS to hire 100,000 temporary workers for holiday season

Oct 7 — United Parcel Service on Wednesday said ​it would hire 100,000 seasonal employees across the US, as it prepares ‌for a spike in parcel volumes for the ⁠upcoming holiday season.

Here ​are some details:

• ⁠The holiday season is the busiest ‌period for parcel ‌delivery companies, during which daily volumes ⁠tend to double.

• ⁠Shippers and most retailers boost the hiring of temporary workers during the period from late November to early January.

• The seasonal workers will help ‌sort, move and deliver ​packages during the holiday rush, UPS said.

• The parcel delivery company hired 125,000 holiday season staff in 2024, but did not provide a comparable hiring number last year.

• In January, the ​company said it would cut up to ‌30,000 operational ‌jobs ⁠and close 24 facilities in 2026 in a bid to scale down shipments for its largest customer, Amazon, and shift ‌towards more profitable ​shipments.

(Reporting by Miraanta ‌Lowrance and Nandan ⁠Mandayam ​in Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan Ananda and Maju ​Samuel)

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