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Online retailer Amazon has opened a new distribution centre in Dublin that has resulted in 500 new jobs. The company's 58,529 square meter "fulfilment centre" will serve customers across Europe, housing thousands of products. The new centre will allow the company to bypass the UK and avoid any delays or extra charges due to Brexit rules. Recruitment is underway and will focus on engineers, HR and IT as well as employees who perform the roles of picking, packing and shipping customer orders. Amazon currently employs 5,000 people in Ireland.
Eurofound (2022), Amazon, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 107714, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107714.
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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.
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