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Wednesday, 17.04.2024, 22:48
ABB has hired some 500 in Estonia in 2017
"During 2017, we have hired or admitted to in-service training 500
people, of them approximately 350 office workers and 150 production workers. Of
these 500 workers approximately more than a hundred we hired to work at the
shared services center and admitted another as many to in-service training,"
Agnes Hansen, human resources manager of ABB
for the Baltic countries, told BNS.
In October last year ABB opened a
regional shared services center in the Opik Building of Ulemiste City, Tallinn.
The shared services center is set to raise its workforce numbers to over 400 in
a few years. In January 2017 about 200 people were employed there.
The Tallinn regional shared services center is one of six such centers that
ABB has established or is in the
process of establishing all over the world to make its operations more
efficient by bringing together and standardizing support services that were
earlier provided in 68 countries separately. The shared services center
supports ABB with financial, human
resources and supply chain services.
In addition, ABB brought a number
of jobs to Estonia and Italy after closing its renewable energy producing
equipment plant in Arizona last year. "Some 70 people have started working
for us in connection with the closure of the U.S. plant," Hansen said.
ABB has been active
in Estonia since 1992 and its business here is divided into three areas: sale
of equipment, systems, maintenance services and projects; manufacture of
motors, generators, renewable energy equipment, electrical cabines and
substations; and accounting, supply chain management and human resources
services.
In 2015, sales of ABB group
in Estonia amounted to 155 million euros and the unit employed 1,056
people on the average.