King Felipe VI officially opened
the 2015 edition of the Mobile
World Congress. In the photo,
with Agustín Cordón (right), then
General Manager of Fira de
Barcelona, and John Hoffman
(left), CEO of GSMA Ltd.
The In-House Business Area recruited
new profiles specialising in emerging
sectors. For these and other projects,
12 internal transfers were made, and 24
selection processes were launched. As
in other years, temporary personnel were
recruited to meet peak needs generated
by trade fair activity, and 78 selection
processes were conducted.
The 2015 Training Plan continued the
work of enhancing the acquisition of skills
necessary to meet new business chal-
lenges (CRM system, online advertising,
etc.), and to guide cross-cutting projects.
The total training hours was the equiva-
lent of 3.75 working days per employee, a
17% increase on 2014.
Fira also continued to invest in health
and safety in the workplace, maintaining
a low incident rate, with a low number of
accidents, none of them serious.
A flexi-time work policy was also intro-
duced, giving employs the chance to do
some teleworking and/or work a shorter
day, going beyond the provisions of cur-
rent employment law. In 2015, flexi-time
agreements were reached with 11 em-
ployees (3.5% of the workforce). The plan
of measures to comply with the Law on
Employee training focuses
on the acquisition of skills
to successfully meet the
new challenges facing the
trade fair business.
Shows at Fira welcomed the visit of many
authorities and personalities, including the
King and government representatives
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