Eagerly awaited by many potential customers, the opening of Ikea in Timisoara is delayed, although construction is complete. There was talk that it would open for the Christmas holidays, then the end of February was brought forward, and now the idea that the opening will most likely take place in the summer is increasingly being put forward. The main reason is the shortage of manpower, Ikea being unable to find, in particular, unskilled employees to work in the warehouse, reports ZiarulTimisora.ro.
Salary could be one reason for the lack of interest of potential employees. Although IKEA is not officially disclosing the amounts offered, those who went for interviews have made public the offers they received. In general, according to them, a net salary of 2,000 lei is offered, plus meal vouchers worth 20 lei a day and money for transport, i.e. 150 lei a month. A simple calculation, on an average of 21 working days, gives a total of 2,570 lei per month, including transport money, because the company does not provide this.
In concrete terms, the much-lauded Ikea company, which makes colossal profits, offers 100 lei more than the minimum wage, while working in shifts and wasting a lot of time travelling to work! If we compare it to the average income, Ikea's salary is even more outrageous: the average amount in Romania is 4,008 lei, which means that a person who takes a job at Ikea will receive half an average salary, writes the source.
Under these conditions, it is no wonder why the company fails to find employees, as people from Timisoara are not willing to work for such derisory amounts.
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