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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Via Stalls And Markets Or Other 47.91 - Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 July 2019
Employment effect (start)
15 July 2019
Foreseen end date
14 January 2021
Description
The American online retailer Amazon has announced that it will create over 1,000 jobs at its new distribution centre in Okmiany near Bolesławiec within the next 18 months. The recruitment process has already started; currently, the company is looking for warehouse staff, managers, engineers, HR and IT specialists. The unit, with an area of 60,000 m2, will be the third Amazon’s investment in the region of Lower Silesia. The company employs about 4,000 people in the region.
Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, currently employs around 647,500 employees worldwide. Amazon has been operating in Poland since 2014 and has five distribution centres across the country.
Eurofound (2019), Amazon, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 98168, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98168.
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