ONLINE retail giant Amazon has created 2,200 jobs in Spain this year alone – and these are not expected to be the end of the story.
According to the firm, which has logistics centres in Madrid and Barcelona and which set up its Amazon.es branch in 2011, new positions created ranged from entry-level operations through to software developers.
Although many new employments were in packaging and processing, others included software engineering, data science and automatic learning, as well as Cloud experts for Amazon Web Services.
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Since the company launched in Spain, recruitment consultancy Keystone calculates it created 8,600 new jobs on national territory before the end of 2018, and paved the way for over 8,000 small and medium-sized businesses to sell their goods nationwide and abroad via Amazon Marketplace.
These firms employ around 10,000 people in total.
This means about 21,000 jobs in total have been created or secured thanks to Amazon's investment in Spain, which the corporation aims to continue building on and views as a great success.
From its 2011 launch through to the end of 2018, the global company had invested a total of €2.9 billion in Spain.
The Amazon Spain network is now made up of around 20 physical premises nationwide, including logistics and distribution centres, delivery hubs, corporate offices, seller service centres, and centres for developing software for Kindle and other e-reading technologies, plus automatic learning and artificial intelligence.
Amazon's employees in Spain receive a staff package that includes a series of perks such as medical insurance that covers them from their first day working with the firm, life insurance, staff discounts on products, a company pension plan, and the programme 'Career Choice' which provides financial help towards training and studying for adult workers.
The company has faced strikes this year due to labour disputes, but is now confident these have been resolved and staff are content with their pay and conditions.
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