Big retailers and delivery firms will struggle to find staff for festive holiday

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UPS is to hire an additional 95,000 workers over the festive holiday period, while FedEx is expected to announce its plans later today. Amazon has made no announcement as yet ? but all the e-commerce companies are likely to use temporary workers to avoid the Christmas crisis of two years ago. But ? as the WSJ notes ? this could be a tricky task. Unemployment is low, and there is high demand. Will they offer enough pay to lure a ...