Amazon to hire 1,000 people in Poland this year
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The Polish unit of e-commerce giant Amazon is going to create over 1,000 new jobs in Poland this year, the company reported on Friday. Currently, it employs 4,500 people.
"The majority of the new jobs will be those requring high qualifications, in such fields as IT, engineering, finance, HR and logistics. By the end of the year, the number of people employed by Amazon in Poland will reach 5,500," Marzena Więckowska, spokeswoman at Amazon Polska said as quoted in a company press release. She added that Amazon will hire at all of its locations in Poland, Gdańsk (the Center of Technology development), Wrocław, Poznań (logistics centers) and Warsaw (Amazon Web Services office).
A mkonth ago, Kerry Person, general director at Amazon Polska told the media that the company is planning to expand its logistics centers in Europe, including those based in Poland.
Since 2014, Amazon has invested over PLN 2 billion in Poland.
