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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.2 - Activities of call centres
650 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 July 2014
Employment effect (start)
2 July 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
Vodafone Shared Services Romania, subsidiary of British telecommunications company Vodafone, opened a new centre in Bucharest and plans to create 650 new jobs by the end of 2014. According to the sources, the company is currently having more than 100 employees in this services and IT support centre, but intends to get to 750 employees until the end of the year and to a total of 2,000 employees in the next 3 years.
Sources
3 July 2014: Ziarul Financiar
2 July 2014: Mediafax
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Vodafone Shared Services Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 77789, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77789.
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