Annabella quiroga
04/06/2021 2:17 PM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 04/06/2021 2:20 PM
Mercado Libre plans to hire
16,000 new employees
throughout the region
this year
.
With the boost that the pandemic gave to online sales, the company will double its staff this year and in Argentina it will go from 7,000 jobs to 10,000.
Mercado Libre is among the
winning
companies
of the pandemic.
In January of this year, Marcos Galperín's company reached a market price of US $ 100,000 million on Wall Street and consolidated itself as the most valuable company in Argentina.
However, so far this year the stock has been declining and has
already
fallen
6%.
This Tuesday, Sebastián Fernández Silva, Chief People Officer, presented the company's job growth plan.
"We are going to
double direct employment.
We are going to hire 16,000 people throughout the region," he said.
"In one year we are going to hire more people than in the previous 20 years."
The new hires will seek to
expand the logistics network in the region
and strengthen the IT and product areas that generate technological solutions for the entire ecosystem.
In December 2020 Mercado Libre (MELI) had 15,500 employees and the projection is that there will be 31,500 at the end of this year.
The company has operations in
eight countries in the region
and plants in CABA, the province of Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Mendoza, Santa Fe, San Luis and Entre Ríos.
Fernández Silva said that the bulk of the new jobs will be created in Brazil (7,200) and Mexico (4,700).
"We plan to increase the staff by
11,000 people for Mercado Envíos
and for the warehousing and distribution platforms. These are first job positions."
Along with this segment, the second focus is Technology, an area in which they plan to add
4,000 people.
"In Argentina we closed 2020 with 7,000 jobs and this year
there will be 2,800 more
, a growth of 40%, very much in line with the growth of last year," he explained.
"By the end of the year we will have
10,000 jobs
in Argentina, 4,500 will be in technology. And 40% of the new positions this year -1100- will also be in that area", details Fernández Silva.
Another 800 jobs will be for the Shipping area.
The impact of the Argentine cost
The job growth rate is higher in Brazil and Mexico than in Argentina.
How
does the Argentine cost impact when choosing where to create jobs?
the executive was asked.
"Our decision considers costs, but above all it considers talent. Argentina has always been a place of
excellent human capital
, it continues to be a very relevant place for us. There is no divestment. They are different levels of growth, Brazil has always been our main market, followed through Mexico, as we move forward with the shipping network. "
In 2020, the Truckers union blocked the entrance to one of the MELI plants for several days to demand that the employees of the Shipping sector join that union.
What is
the Moyano effect
on the hiring plan?
"We make business decisions not thinking so much about the situation as we seek to build an organization for the next 100 years," Fernández Silva responded elegantly.
Regarding the impact of the Covid and the quarantine, in MELI they recognize that "the pandemic boosted growth that would have occurred three or five years from now."
And they detail that in the pandemic
8,000 new SMEs
joined the platform to sell in Argentina and more than 75,000 began using Mercado Pago's collection services.
"There are already more than
600,000 families
that generate their main income in MELI," said Fernández Silva.
In the face of what is coming and the possible return to confinement, the company continues to work remotely, except for the Shipping area, which is 100% face-to-face.
"We give the option of going to the office
one week every three.
Going forward, when the pandemic passes, we will migrate to a flexible format with greater elasticity to choose between face-to-face or remote work."
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