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.
Information / Communication Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62.09 - Other information technology and computer service activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 January 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
American transportation network company UBER has announced plans to create 200 new jobs at its Centre of Excellence in Kraków by the end of 2019. The company will develop its business service centre as well as create a division dedicated to electric bikes. Uber is looking for engineers, data analysts, and programmers. The company has also announced that the office in Warsaw will be the main hub for the entire region of Central and Eastern Europe. Taxi drivers protested outside the Ministry of Digitalisation and a spokesperson for Warsaw Trade Union of Taxi Drivers stated that they ‘do not accept the activities of such a company as Uber’.
In Poland, Uber has been operating since 2014 and has units in five locations: Wrocław, Warsaw, Kraków, Trójmiasto and Poznań. Previous restructuring took place in 2016, when 140 jobs were created.
Eurofound (2019), UBER, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 96684, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96684.
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