IKEA store's computer servers crash after it gets 20,000 online applications for 400 jobs in just three days
Applications were for jobs as store workers in a shop to be opened next year outside the eastern city of Valencia Photo: Clara Molden
An IKEA shop in Spain says it has received 20,000 applications for just 400
jobs, an unprecedented rush that crashed its computer servers and
illustrated the desperation the country's 6m unemployed people face.
Company spokesman Rodrigo Sanchez said the online applications received since
Monday were for jobs as store workers in a shop to be opened next year
outside the eastern city of Valencia.
He said the most applications the company had received before in Spain were
50,000 in southern Jerez, but that was over a period of a month.
Official figures show Spain may be beginning to emerge from a more than
two-year recession but the government admits it will take years to bring
down the 26pc unemployment rate.
(Edited by Andrew Trotman)
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