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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
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
25 March 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
The American online retailer Amazon has announced that it will create over 1,000 jobs at its new distribution centre in Pawlikowice near Łódź, Poland. The centre, with an area of 44,800 m2, is expected to be operational by the end of 2019. The recruitment process has already started; the company is looking for warehouse staff as well as HR, IT and financial specialists. Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, with headquarters in Seattle, US, currently employs around 647,500 employees worldwide. Amazon has been operating in Poland since 2014. In Poland, the company employs about 14,000 employees in five distribution centres, a development centre in Gdańsk and Amazon web services in Warsaw. In 2018, Amazon announced three restructuring programmes: in April (1000 new jobs), June (200 new jobs) and September (500 new jobs).
Eurofound (2019), Amazon Polska, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 97600, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97600.
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