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200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 April 2016
Employment effect (start)
27 April 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
UBS, a Swiss bank, has announced that it will create 200 new jobs at its new shared services centre in Wrocław by the end of 2016. Initially, the company declared that 600 jobs will be created at the centre in 2016, and the number of employees is presently estimated to reach 800 positions. The bank is looking for IT, financial and marketing specialists with knowledge of foreign languages. The company announced that about 500 of 800 jobs have been created since January 2016.
UBS was founded over 150 years ago; currently the bank employs over 60,000 people in 50 countries. In Poland, UBS has been operating since 2007. The bank has shared services centres in Kraków and Wrocław.
Sources
27 April 2016: Gazeta Wyborcza
Citation
Eurofound (2016), UBS, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 87496, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87496.
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