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.
US-based Cloud content management company Box has announced that it will create 150 jobs at its new Research and Development Engineering site in Warsaw within the next 24 months. The company is looking mainly for engineers, web developers and HR specialists. To help accelerate its long-term product strategy, the team in Warsaw will drive some of Box’s most important product developments in partnership with its established team headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Founded in 2005, Box is a leading cloud content management platform that enables organizations to accelerate business processes, power workplace collaboration, and to protect their most valuable information. Box provides its services to companies such as AstraZeneca, General Electric, JLL and Morgan Stanley. The company has sites in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Currently, the company employs over 2,000 worldwide, including over 200 in Europe.
Eurofound (2020), Box, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 102910, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/102910.
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...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
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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...
