By joining JYSK, you get varied challenges and the chance to go above and beyond every day. You also get thousands of new colleagues all over the world.
JYSK has a strong team spirit, which is also highlighted by our employees in our employee satisfaction survey.
We look forward to being your companion on your career journey. Your team is excited to get to know you soon.
You will be a part of an international company with more than 3,300 stores in 50 countries.
You have now joined JYSK in UK & Ireland where we have 38 stores and growing! That means that you will have around 500 colleagues in UK & Ireland.
The first JYSK store in UK was opened in 2008, in Lincoln and our first store opened in Ireland in 2019, in Naas. JYSK has expanded its network throughout Uk & Ireland, and the number of stores is growing from year to year. This is something we are truly proud of, and could not do without our committed colleagues.
If you want to know more about our great expansion story, have a look here.
The name JYSK (Pronounced YOOSK) is important to us as a company, as it says a lot about who we are and how we act as a company.
The Danish word jysk was also important to our founder, Lars Larsen, when he opened his first stores with the name JYSK SENGETØJSLAGER. It was later shortened to JYSK, which is our name today.
The word means someone or something originating from the Danish peninsula called Jutland. Being from Jutland, you are jysk, and people from Jutland are generally considered to be hard working, down to earth and reliable.
Our Scandinavian roots make up the foundation of how we do business. We are a value-driven company based on Scandinavian values such as honesty and respect – both towards customers and colleagues.
Our Scandinavian roots are therefore not only about where our company was founded. They also define the values that guide us in how we lead the company.
Our JYSK Values and JYSK Leadership make up the framework for how we behave towards each other in JYSK as well as with external partners.
Our three fundamental JYSK Values – Tradesman, Colleague and Corporate Spirit – originate from our founder, Lars Larsen. They express the behaviour and attitude that we can expect from each other.
In addition to our core values, we expect our leaders to display our JYSK Leadership, which is defined by being: Leader, Coach and Communicator.
In JYSK, we trust each other, and we believe in delegation and freedom with responsibility.
We believe our employees are key to our success. That is why we strive to offer development and possibilities of growing and finding new challenges within JYSK. When our employees grow, JYSK also grows.
Our ambition is to be employees’ first choice within retail. This means that JYSK must always be an attractive place to work, and that our employees enjoy the time they spend at work.
We also take pride in rewarding engagement and a great effort among our employees. With the right attitude, opportunities abound in JYSK.
We truly believe in our employee promises and live them out every day:
- Bring dedication. Meet possibilities.
- Strong teams. Great engagement.
- When you grow. We grow.
At JYSK we are working hard to reduce the environmental footprint of our business.
We are committed to selling products made from responsible raw materials, such as responsible wood and more sustainable cotton, and we are continuously working to increase the use of recycled materials in our products.
JYSK has ambitious plans to cut in half the greenhouse gas emitted from powering and heating all of our stores, distribution centres and offices by 2030.
At our sustainability site, you find a quick overview of some of our initiatives within environmental sustainability.