Amazon Romania

Type
Business expansion
Country
Romania
Region
Macroregiunea Trei; Bucureşti-Ilfov; Bucureşti
Location of affected unit(s)
Bucharest
Sector
Information / Computing
62 - Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
62.1 - Computer programming activities
62.10 - Computer programming activities
1,300 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
26 January 2017
Employment effect (start)
26 January 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017

Description

American company Amazon is to hire 1,000 permanent staff at the new offices in Bucharest by the end of 2017.

Last year Amazon hired 100 persons in the development center in Iasi, which is Amazon’s first R&D facility in Eastern Europe. The R&D centre in Iasi was opened in 2005 and the company has invested 40 million euro since.

At present Amazon Romania has a total workforce of 700.

Update, 26 June 2017: The officials of the company announced that the space for the new offices (in Bucharest) has been rented and the recruitment process for 1,000 new employees has started.

UPDATE, 17 October 2017: The officials of the company announced that the space for the new offices (in Bucharest) has been rented and that 1,300 employees will be recruited.

Sources

  • 26 January 2017: Ziarul Financiar
  • 26 January 2017: Mediafax
  • 26 June 2017: Ziarul Financiar
  • 27 June 2017: Romania-Insider.com

Citation

Eurofound (2017), Amazon Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 89965, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/89965.