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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
600 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 May 2017
Employment effect (start)
11 May 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
On 11 May 2017, Volkswagen, Europe's largest car producer announced to create 600 new jobs in Wolfsburg, Germany. These new positions will be created at the company's newly opened IT department. Volkswagen wants to expand the IT knowledge of the company due to digitalisation.
The company is looking for both soft and hardware experts. The new IT site in Wolfsburg is offering space for 1,500 employees. About 800 employees moved already to the new building. In 2016, Volkswagen announced to cut up to 23,000 jobs in Germany (Volkswagen, 2016).
Volkswagen employs about 15,000 IT experts worldwide.
Sources
12 May 2017: Handelsblatt
11 May 2017: Volkswagen (press release)
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Volkswagen, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 90985, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90985.
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