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Professional Services Professional Services And Management Consultancy Activities Of Head Offices; Management Consultancy Activities 70 - Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 October 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 June 2010
Description
Hewitt Associates is planning to increase employment at its Krakow offices by 200 employees (in addition to the 300 already working there) by mid-2010. Hewitt Associates is an outsourcing firm providing human resource services - personnel administration, recruitment and training administration, payroll services, and call centres. The firm was originally established 70 years ago and employs approximately 23,000 people in 33 countries.
Sources
6 October 2009: Gazeta Wyborcza Kraków (www.gazeta.pl)
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Hewitt Associates, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 69676, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69676.
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