The largest industry in the animal protein segment and the world’s second-largest food company, JBS registered in November its highest-ever team members headcount in Brazil in its 67-year history: 145,128 across all regions of the country.
In a year when the pandemic flattened employment rates in various activities, food production as an essential activity made its contribution to creating jobs. Throughout 2020, JBS bolstered its teams with 12,000 members in special units scattered across 135 municipalities, especially in the hinterland. In more than half of these the company is the main economic activity.
Besides more people to increase production, the sharp increase in job positions was also aimed at substituting professionals on preventive leave of absence for being in the groups at risk from Covid-19.
When the units outside Brazil are factored in, the Company employs a total of 245,000 people.