March 2024. Coyol Free Zone and its robust business ecosystem is an important generator of quality employment and talent development. Currently, 54% of the human talent in this business park is made up of women. With their work and dedication, they contribute to the development and wellbeing of their families, their community and the country.
This percentage represents approximately 12,850 women, who work in operational, administrative and managerial positions.
Some of them stand out in careers such as engineering, mathematics and science, among others, and stand out, among many other qualities, for their efficiency, responsibility, persistence, tenacity and their great capacity to learn from the processes in an increasingly competitive and in-demand labor segment.
Carlos Wong, Managing Director of Coyol Free Zone, assures that these jobs are characterized by fostering gender parity, as well as an increasingly better trained human resource with capabilities to contribute significantly to the Life Sciences industry.
“In Coyol Free Zone, people have the opportunity to develop themselves both at work and at a personal and family level, we promote a balance in search of integral wellbeing for all. The formal and quality jobs we create allow them to contribute economically to their homes and contribute to the economic growth of the country”, explained Wong.
The Director acknowledged that there is even a trend where women have a greater participation in leadership positions in the sector’s companies, recognized for their efficiency and high corporate commitment.
Coyol Free Zone is a business park that houses 33 national and international companies in the medical industry. Among these high-tech medical companies are 7 that are part of the Top 30 Life Sciences companies worldwide.
The park provides 23,796 direct jobs and approximately 3,000 indirect jobs, which in turn represent 12.9% of the total direct employment generated by the Free Trade Zone Regime in Costa Rica.