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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.2 - Activities of call centres
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 May 2022
Employment effect (start)
26 May 2022
Foreseen end date
Description
Swedish outsourcing company Transcom has announced that it will hire 100 new employees in Poznan. The reason for this job creation is the opening of its new division in Poland in Poznan. The company plans to offer employment for people that are fluent in many languages.
Transcom deals with customer service, sales, and debt management. It was founded in 1995 and has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. It hires over 29,000 employees in 21 countries worldwide. The company has been present in Poland since 2003 with divisions in Olsztyn, Bialystok, Gdansk, Elblag and Poznan. In Poland it employs 1,200 people.
Previous business expansion in Poland was announced in November 2018, with 300 jobs created (Transcom-2018-PL).
Eurofound (2022), Transcom, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 106892, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106892.
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