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Professional Services Professional Legal And Technical Acconuting Activities Legal And Accounting Activities 69.2 - Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 April 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Volvo Business Services plans to hire more economists and IT specialists in Wrocław (Dolnośląskie). Technicians will program and service computers also in Sweden, while economists will do bookkeeping for all Volvo’s factories Europe. Hans Nordström of Volvo Business Services declares that Polish economists are four times cheaper than the Swedish ones. Volvo’s spokesman Mårten Wikforss concludes that low wages in Poland create profits for the whole concern and therefore have impact on development and employment in Sweden.
On May 2005, Gazeta Wyborcza informed that the company wants to hire 500 people in the Wrocław centre. It was revealed that Volvo will benefit from nearly PLN 2 million donations from Polish State. The company will also receive land tax-exempt and donation from the Labour Office. Altogether planned help will amount to PLN 9.7 million.
Sources
21 April 2005: The Polish-Swedish Chamber of Commerce
31 May 2005: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Volvo Business Services, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 61448, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61448.
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