Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Multinational technology company Google plans to hire between 40 and 50 employees with well-developed digital skills at its new data centre in Hamina, southern Finland. At the moment Google employs approximately 350 people in Hamina and wants to bring their number up to 400. The centre will be sixth for the company in Finland and it will start operating in 2021.
Google established its first data centre in Hamina in 2011. The company has so far invested approximately €2 billion in the region. The establishment has also boosted demand for wind power in Finland as the complex is powered by renewable electricity from three new wind farms.
Eurofound (2020), Google, Business expansion in Finland, factsheet number 101819, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/101819.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
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Since 2013, Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legislation has been documenting regulatory developments in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change. The most recent update to the...
