Tool rental company HSS Hire plans to cut around 300 jobs as it closes more than 134 sites across the country, it said on Thursday.
The business said that the Covid-19 pandemic had showed it is ready to accelerate a strategy to invest in technological solutions, meaning that it needs to run fewer physical sites.
During the pandemic, HSS has pushed its new, online platforms hard - launching a click and collect service and brining homeworking in for staff.
HSS Hire employs more than 2,000 people across the UK and runs a couple of hundred branches. Chief executive Steve Ashmore said: "These investments will allow us to reduce our physical footprint which, whilst regrettably resulting in the loss of around 300 roles, allows us to become a more
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