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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.20 - Activities of call centres
225 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 June 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Japanese IT specialist Fujitsu will create 225 new jobs in Portugal by the end of 2018. According to the management, the multinational wants in particular to recruit persons with strong language competencies, not only in English or French but also in many other languages, as Fujitsu provides customer support in 23 different languages. The people hired will be responsible for assisting Fujitsu's customers not only locally, but primarily abroad.
The company opened its first office in Portugal in 2004. Today the company has about 1,400 workers in Portugal.
Sources
1 June 2017: Expresso
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Fujitsu, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 91097, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91097.
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