The most hired Lithuanian companies in 2020: from pandemic winners to official and unofficial unicorns | Deal



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If the nicest images were selected during the first quarantine in March 2020, the minibus decorated with the logo of the online store “Barbora” bolted in your yard would probably be mentioned.

On social media, Lithuanians heard their friends laugh after watching the last remaining time of Barbora’s delivery and shared tips on how to ensure success by lurking in an empty order window.

The first electronic grocery store, which has been operating for many years, gained its fame in 2020.

The first electronic grocery store, established nearly a decade ago, reached its glory in 2020: Barbora, which had been operating at a loss for many years, was inundated with a flood of orders last night to find hundreds of new employees, buy more cars and open additional collection centers.

Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Work with the messenger

Sigismund Gedvila / 15min photo / Works with the messenger “Barbora”

So it’s no wonder that the top of the list of companies that employed the most employees in 2020 is crowned by an unknown IT company, a fast-growing start-up, and not even a big new investor, as in years. earlier, viz. Barbora.

According to Sodra, the number of employees at Barbora more than doubled in November 2020 compared to January: from 573 to 1,259 employees. As a result, the company employed 784 people during the year, in the hope that the moderate pandemic would not eliminate the desire of a portion of the population to shop online.

However, last year’s analysis also helps to hope for the best for Barbora: The company’s Andrius Mikalauskas realizes that after the first quarantine, more than a fifth of new customers have left to shop online.

Andrius Mikalauskas

Andrius Mikalauskas

The growth of this company differs from all companies in less than a year: the Teltonika group of companies, which occupies the second place, hired twice as many people: 350 employees, and other companies that actively hired created between 135 and 300 new Job positions.

15 minutes analyzed the data provided by Sodra on companies where the number of employees increased more from January to November 2020, presents the list of the top 25 Lithuanian companies that created the most new jobs.

It is true that we did not add to the list companies that offer staffing and employment services, as well as publicly known cases where the number of employees changed due to restructuring and the transfer of employees from one company to another.

Recently 15 minutes it also revealed the TOP 25 companies where the number of employees dropped the most in 2020. Read more about it HERE.

From couriers to medical device manufacturers

The names of the companies that grew the fastest in terms of number of employees last year quite accurately reflect the trends of 2020.



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