With some 340,000 staff in employed in its 2,500 stores, Tesco is the biggest private sector in Britain and has in effect created its own form of an internal labour market. Thus, its frontline staff – those that serve the customers directly in store – can sign up for extra shifts in their own or other nearby stores.
Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire. (Ref. 100827)
With some 340,000 staff in employed in its 2,500 stores, Tesco is the biggest private sector in Britain and has in effect created its own form of an internal labour market. Thus, its frontline staff – those that serve the customers directly in store – can sign up for extra shifts in their own or other nearby stores.
The scheme, called ‘slivers of time’ in its pilot version, has been trialled for a year. It was officially
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