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Wholesale / Retail Retail trade Non-specialised retail sale 47.12 - Other non-specialised retail sale
3,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
7 June 2021
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2021
Description
The e-commerce giant Amazon announced it will create 3,000 new jobs in Italy by the end of 2021. This expansion will take place through new hirings in more than 50 locations throughout Italy, among which two new distribution centres in Novara and Cividate al Piano, a sorting centre in Spilamberto, as well as 11 sorting depots in Piedmont, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Umbria and Marche.
The company is looking for different roles: from picking, packing and shipping goods, to marketing, finance, and research.
The Country Manager of Spain and Italy commented the restructuring programme as an opportunity to foster growth and economic recover in Italy, highlighting the importance of investing in digitisation.
According to the company’s plan the overall Italian workforce will reach over 12,500 employees, from 9,500 at the end of 2020.
Eurofound (2021), Amazon, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 105251, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105251.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
