The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64 - Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
13 December 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
The Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company, commonly known as Shell, has announced that it will create 150 new jobs at its Shell Business Operations Kraków in the Kraków Special Economic Zone, Poland. The company is looking for highly qualified specialists, especially finance, HR and PR specialists. The company has revealed that 660 positions have been created at the centre since January 2016.
Currently, the centre employs around 2,500 people responsible for conducting and supporting Shell’s global business operations in the area of finances, accounting, purchasing, customer service, human resources and others. The centre provides services in 17 languages, including Hungarian, Turkish and Dutch.
Sources
13 December 2016: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Royal Dutch Shell, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 89692, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89692.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
