Bol.com Creates Tremendous Job Growth in Waalwijk

By: Together Abroad 13-02-2017

Categories:* Daily employment news,

In the last decades Waalwijk had a high level of unemployment, now the labor market will bea bonanza. The webshop bol.com will create hundreds of new job opportunities in the Brabant town.

Bol.com recently built a distribution center with the size of seven football fields, where hundreds of people will work. And that is not all, the center will open in the second half of this year and will probably be already too small.

In Waalwijk, currently 6.4% of the workforce is unemployed, and that is double since the crisis of 2008, when the unemployment rate was only 3.2%. Within a few years, unemployment rose to hundreds of people. In 2014 there were 1,445 people unemployed.

At the opening they will have approximately 50,000 square meters of land area. There is place for 2000 employees. Earlier this year it was announced that the shop already has plans for an extension. The company has “laid an eye” on a plot of similar size. If the planned expansion is achieved in the coming years, there will be hundreds more new jobs.

In the short term however, the municipality of Waalwijk does not expect a big boost on the demand for additional staff because the new logistics center already has employed staff. The demand for staff will increase steadily due to the growth of Bol.com. The shop is growing by 30% annually.

Source: http://www.rtlnieuws.nl

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