{"id":377014,"date":"2020-10-06T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T03:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=377014"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T05:49:09","slug":"uks-octopus-energy-to-create-1000-jobs-new-tech-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/uks-octopus-energy-to-create-1000-jobs-new-tech-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Octopus Energy to create 1,000 jobs, new tech hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Octopus Energy plans to double its workforce by the end of 2021 and launch a new technology hub in Manchester in the northwest of England, creating around 1,000 jobs, it said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes as economists warn of the stark impact of coronavirus-related restrictions on the economy, with the Bank of England expecting a jump in the jobless rate to 7.5 per cent as measures to support jobs ease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These 1,000 jobs will provide exciting opportunities across the country for those who want to be at the cutting edge of the green revolution,&#8221; Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement from the company.<\/p>\n<p>The new jobs will also be spread across existing sites in London, Brighton, Warwick and Leicester and will primarily go to graduates, the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s Octopus Energy plans to double its workforce by the end of 2021 and launch a new technology hub in Manchester in the northwest of England, creating around 1,000 jobs, it said on Monday. The move comes as economists warn of the stark impact of coronavirus-related restrictions on the economy, with the Bank of England expecting a jump in the jobless rate to 7.5 per cent as measures to support jobs ease. &#8220;These 1,000 jobs will provide exciting opportunities across the country for those who want to be at the cutting edge of the green revolution,&#8221; Prime Minister Boris Johnson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}