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.
Technology company 3M will create 100 new jobs in Dublin as part of a new research and development technical centre which it aims to establish over the next two to three years. Recruitment for the new roles has already begun and the staff will work remotely until the company’s new office space is completed.
The centre will be named the 3M Digital Science Community. The centre will work closely with 3M Health Care’s Health Information Systems Division (HIS) and with broader 3M Health Care business group. The new centre will help to improve the company’s global digital operations, increase deployment of cloud-based solutions, and further develop artificial intelligence to digitalise patient documentation process, better measure the quality of healthcare delivery and improve clinical outcomes.
The company currently employs over 500 people in Dublin and Athlone.
3M has undergone various restructuring events in Europe, including over 200 job cuts in France in 2017, 270 job creation in Poland in 2016, and another 120 job creation in Poland in 2015.
Eurofound (2021), 3M, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 105114, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/105114.
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