Digi will close 2023 with 7,500 employees in Spain after creating 1,500 new jobs in the last twelve months. A trend of exponential growth that began with the outbreak of the pandemic, at which time there were barely a thousand workers on the payroll. Which represents a growth of 650% in four years that is now coming to an end.
“We are going to continue growing, but not at the same intensity. We hope to add another 1,500 employees to the company but it will be between the next five and six years,” explained Marius Varzaru, CEO of the company in Spain, yesterday during a Christmas drink with the media held this Monday.
What does not change is the model. Digi continues to defend the benefits of its labor strategy which, compared to the practices of other companies, rejects the outsourcing of services and is committed to the creation of direct positions to “maintain greater control of the quality of its services,” Varzaru acknowledges.
It is the practice that it has deployed in its native Romania and the same one that has given it good results in Spain where in a couple of decades it has gone from being an unknown virtual operator to positioning itself as the fourth operator in the country with a strong fiber deployment that It has already led it to be present in 8.5 million homes throughout Spain of the 21 million of which that market is made up.
Varzaru also defends, despite some union criticism, that the employees, of the 1,300 who are in customer service activities, earn more in his company than outsourced companies that work for other operators.
Digi will also be the company that will benefit from the assets derived from the merger between Orange and MásMóvil that Brussels is expected to approve in the first quarter of 2024, but which will not be executed until 2025.
Europe thus reinforces Digi's strategy of guaranteeing low prices in the Spanish market as confirmed by the decision announced last week to increase benefits for its clients without modifying the quotas and which it assures will not vary in 2024. "We can assure that we are not going to raise prices throughout 2024," Varzaru confirmed.
