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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Via Stalls And Markets Or Other 47.91 - Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 April 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
The global e-commerce platform Groupon has announced that it will create 250 jobs at its new shared services centre in Katowice by the end of 2017. In total, about 500 jobs will be created at the site. The centre is expected to be operational in summer 2017 and the company has already started the recruitment process. Groupon is looking for customer service staff and sale specialists with knowledge of foreign languages, especially German and English. The centre will provide services to clients from North America as well as EMEA and APAC regions.
Groupon has been operating in Poland since 2010; currently, the company has a shared services centre in Warszawa employing 700 people.
Sources
25 April 2017: Strefa Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Groupon, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 90839, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90839.
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