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Professional Services Professional Services And Management Consultancy Activities Of Head Offices; Management Consultancy Activities 70.22 - Business and other management consultancy activities
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 September 2021
Employment effect (start)
20 September 2021
Foreseen end date
20 September 2022
Description
British legal and accounting services company PwC has announced that it plans to create 5,000 new jobs at its units across Poland within the next 5 years – assuming constant pace of recruitment, this could imply around 1,000 jobs over the next 12 months.
The business expansion is part of company’s wider plan ‘The New Equation’ which responds to changes in the world, including technological disruption, climate change, fractured geopolitics, and the continuing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, PwC intends to accelerate its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. In total, the group is to invest USD 12 billion (€10.37 billion) and hire 100,000 people worldwide in five years. In Poland, PwC to intends create in total 5,000 jobs and invest USD 100 million (€86.44 million) in new technology and services development as well talent training within the next five years.
PwC operates in 158 countries and employs over 284,000 people worldwide. The company has been operating in Poland for 30 years, employing over 6,000 people in seven offices located in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Katowice, Opole and Lublin.
Eurofound (2021), PwC, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 105374, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105374.
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