Ikea builds housing for Icelandic staff 宜家家居為冰島員工打造住宅

The furniture retailer is worried that staff are being priced out of the Icelandic property market 家具零售商 擔心員工因為負擔不了冰島房地產市場而出走 Swedish furniture and lifestyle chain Ikea is building an apartment block in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik in order to give its employees somewhere affordable to live. 瑞典家具與生活方式的連鎖店宜家家居正在冰島首都雷克雅維克建造公寓大樓,為了提供其員工可負擔的住處。 The 36 flats will be available to staff next summer, the Reykjavik Grapevine website reports, saying that rents in the city have "skyrocketed" in recent years. 根據雷克雅維克葡萄藤網站報導,明年夏天將會有 36 層樓提供給員工住宿,也表示該城市內的房租近年來不斷「飆升」。 Thorinn Ivarsson, the company's CEO in Iceland, said the development is intended to provide safe housing for its staff at a reasonable price, with the lowest rent expected to be from 100,000 krona ($889; £716) per month. 公司在冰島的 CEO , Thorinn Ivarsson 表示這項發展是要以一個合理的價格,提供安全的住宅給他們的員工,最低價格預計為每月十萬克朗起( 889 美元; 716 歐元)。 "That's a lot less than people pay for a dump here and there in t...