Expands its presence in Thessaloniki
It will more than double its staff in Thessaloniki and at the Know-how Center that operates in the co-capital of Deloitte. According to company executives, the technology center Deloitte Alexander Competence Center (DACC)today concerns 900 people, while the goal is to approach 2,000 people.
In this direction, the company is abandoning its existing facilities in Technopolis, located in Pylaia, and is moving to the center of the city. Specifically, it is being moved to the port of Thessaloniki in the old tobacco warehouses of the ports of large areas of 13,700 sq.m.
This is the old PAEGA building that dominates the port of the co-capital. The building was leased by the THA to Deloitte and is to be completely renovated, in order to house the company’s increased staff.
The company, according to well-informed sources, needs new and much larger writings on the one hand to support the new hires, on the other hand to house those who have been hired to date, but due to the coronavirus continue to work from home.
“A large part of the staff will return to the offices, but it is certain that the hybrid employment model will continue in the future,” said a Deloitte executive. Besides, this is very convenient for employees (programmers, engineers, accountants, system designers, etc.) thus avoiding wasting time and money in commuting.
Deloitte is not only searching in Thessaloniki. After the creation of a Technology Center in Patras, it is considering the creation of a corresponding center in Crete and Ioannina. The reason: Our country’s staff, as reported by Deloitte executives, has good training and is still competitive in pay compared to other markets. The demand is therefore very high with a number of large multinational companies aspiring to gain a base in our country.
DACC, based in Thessaloniki, contributes in this direction. Recruits and trains employees, mainly in the technology sector, who work both on Deloitte projects in Greece and abroad, or on behalf of third parties. In the second case, the company acquires personnel who, after appropriate training, either hand them over to third-party companies from where they are paid, or work on behalf of a third party, paid by Deloitte.
DACC, Pfizer, and to a lesser extent Cisco, are the reason why Thessaloniki is currently being transformed into a software development center. The transformation continues with Accenture, Deutsche Telekom and Sitecore, with more announcements coming soon.
Who is Deloitte?
Today Deloitte, as a subsidiary of the American company, operates in our country four separate entities, Deloitte AE (tax audit), Deloitte Business Solutions AE (providing business advice and services), DACC and the non-profit Deloitte Greece Foundation. The latter operates exclusively for charitable, educational and environmental purposes.
The Deloitte group in our country in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2021 had revenues of approximately 88 million euros.
Most importantly, DACC offers the Deloitte group in Greece a dimension of extroversion. Specifically, in recent years, the provision of services abroad, as the company’s employees in Thessaloniki, Athens and Patras, work more and more from our country, in projects abroad. According to Deloitte BS, last year services were provided to businesses with an external value of 22 million euros, compared to 9 million euros in 2019.
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