PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) – As the COVID-19 pandemic erase jobs and empties offices throughout the world, business in Central Europe that supply remote, lower-cost services for multinationals are becoming winners in the brand-new organisation order.
Open workplace workspace is seen in an empty office of an airline service business Bluelink International, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Prague, Czech Republic, Might 4,2020 Image taken May 4,2020 REUTERS/David W Cerny
From Prague and Warsaw to Bucharest, these companies have actually long offered outsourced or offshored company services such as software application advancement, administration, payroll handling and research for huge European and American clients. Now they are bucking the worldwide pattern by broadening and hiring.
” In a time of crisis, more service is shifting here,” said Roman Pavlousek, who runs a financing service centre for global commercial maker Atlas Copco in the Czech city of Brno. “This is happening.”
Indeed, more than 90%of organisation services companies in the Czech Republic have continued to hire throughout the pandemic, with 12%winning additional work from the Asia-Pacific area, according to a survey by the Czech branch of the Association of Company Solutions Leaders trade body.
While service centres in Asia can use lower costs, Central and Eastern Europe provides geographical and time-zone proximity to western Europe and North America, with a deep swimming pool of multi-lingual employees, magnate told Reuters.
The region has drawn a host of big names, from Air France-KLM’s BlueLink International to Exxon M