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Just Eat said employees would initially work from home and it planned to operate a hybrid model – involving a mixture of office and home working – over coming months, with an on-site gym among facilities on offer.<\/p>\n
The jobs announcement was hailed by business minister Paul Scully as a boost to the government’s ambition to “level up the whole of the UK”.<\/p>\n
It is part of a £100m investment in the region by Just Eat over the next five years, the company said.<\/p>\n
Just Eat currently employs around 2,000 people – excluding couriers – in the UK and the 1,500 at the Houghton-le-Spring site are in addition to this.<\/p>\n
The new roles are being taken on to deal with its 58,000 UK restaurant partners as well as millions of takeaway customers.<\/p>\n
Jobs on offer will range from customer service advisors to team leaders, specialist support roles and management, Just Eat said.<\/p>\n
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UK managing director Andrew Kenny said: “We’re delighted to be creating upwards of a thousand new employment opportunities in our customer care department over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n
“This move will help us to bring the very best service to our customers and restaurant partners as demand for food delivery goes from strength to strength in the UK.”<\/p>\n