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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities 82 - Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
450 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 June 2017
Employment effect (start)
21 June 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
British banking and financial services company HSBC has announced that it will create 450 new jobs at its Global Service Centre in Kraków by the end of 2017. HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations; it has around 4,000 offices in 70 countries and employs over 235,000 people worldwide. The centre in Kraków has been operating since 2007; currently, it employs about 2,540 people providing services to 27 countries in 11 languages.
Sources
21 June 2017: Puls Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2017), HSBC, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 91351, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91351.
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