Article originally published by EFE: https://bit.ly/3u6IlcE
- Available vacancies in technical areas but also in human resources and finance.
- One-half of the positions are related to assembly and testing operations and are forecast to start-up in the second half of the year.
*Press release published by Intel Costa Rica.
- Markus Sageder to lead Global Software Company’s new Latin America Hub.
San Jose, Costa Rica, March 5, 2021 – San Francisco Bay Area-based software company Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) announced today the official opening of a new Autodesk office for the Latin America region, based in San Jose, Costa Rica. Markus Sageder will serve as the site lead to a cohort of employees largely comprised of inside sales professionals, all working virtually for now to ensure the team’s ongoing health and safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The hub office in Costa Rica is where inside sales operations and other teams will come together to drive growth across the Americas, with a focus on the Latin America region. An established member of the Autodesk team and seasoned leader within the sales industry, Sageder joined Autodesk over four years ago and was one of the first 50 people hired to open the company’s office in Barcelona, Spain.
“Given Markus’ deep knowledge of Autodesk’s business and customer needs and being fluent in four languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German), I’m confident he has what it takes to successfully build our Costa Rica office. We selected Costa Rica for our Latin America hub because of its global business environment and talent pool, ability to support multiple Americas languages, and its vibrant multicultural capital which offers a great quality of life for our employees,” said Morgan Kirkland, Senior Director in Autodesk’s Americas sales organization.
- Bayer sees Costa Rica as having strong potential for its business plans.
- Costa Rica offers many options for Bayer, such as its strategic location, pro-development, and private investment policies.
Costa Rica, March 3, 2021. Bayer, a global company with headquarters in Germany and focused on bio-health sciences and nutrition, has decided to buy property adjacent to the Coyol Industrial Park in Alajuela as part of its long-term regional business expansion plans.
- Costa Ricans are part of the 8.4% of the global population with the best democracies.
How has the pandemic affected democracy in 165 countries? The Economist Intelligence Unit posed this question in its 13th edition of the Democracy Index (2020). In Costa Rica, the answer was positive, being 2020 the year with the best score: 8.16 on a scale of 1 to 10.
- The Wall Street Journal points out to Costa Rica as an alternative for homeschooling surrounded by the country's exuberant nature.
- Costa Rica has been welcoming high-schoolers back for study abroad programs, tweaked for the Covid era. After Zoom classes, playtime ensues.
*Article originally published by The Wall Street Journal by Donna Bulseco: https://on.wsj.com/3oITywA
The COVID-19 pandemic created instability in different ways worldwide and exports was one of them. Even so, Costa Rica's exports of goods grew 1.9% in 2020 reaching a historic record of US $11,683 million: $214 million more than 2019.
The international magazine, The European, interviewed CINDE, recently, on the organization’s gender equality strategy in Costa Rica.
“If we are to advance towards gender equality, a combination of strategic thinking and cultural awareness is essential. No organization understands this better than the Costa rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE)”, says the magazine.
Read the interview on pages 24-26: https://bit.ly/3hL3N1z
- Article originally published by Investment Monitor Magazine.
- Business and investment leaders discuss how Costa Rica stands to be a primary destination for FDI that places higher value on sustainability and well-being in the wake of Covid-19.
By prompting significant focus on the environment and personal well-being, the Covid-19 pandemic has also brought into sharp relief the role of the investment community in supporting a sustainable recovery.