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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale Of Information And Communication Equipment 46.51 - Wholesale of computers, computer peripheral equipment and software
119 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
16 March 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 March 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
Tieto, Finnish IT-company, has announced that they will create over 100 jobs at the newly opened support service center in Estonia. The company has already hired 49 new employees, mostly Estonians. The company is willing to offer this employment oportunity also to workers who have lost their jobs due to the recent closure of the company unit located in Finland. The support service center was moved to Estonia as it is believed to allow for more efficient, cheap and better quality provision of services.
Tieto has around 14,000 employees across the world, around 135 of them work in Estonia.
Sources
16 March 2015: Postimees
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Tieto Estonia AS, Business expansion in Estonia, factsheet number 78786, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78786.
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