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.
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB is to create a new administrative centre in Livingston, bringing up to 255 new jobs. BSkyB's Sky Subscribers Services Limited, which is based in Dunfermline, is to consolidate its back office finance and administrative functions.
Livingston was selected after an assessment of a number of other potential locations in Europe and Asia. The firm will base the new staff at its existing centre in Livingston. Deputy First Minister Nicol Stephen said: 'The news that BSkyB is further increasing its Scottish presence with the establishment of a centre of excellence at Livingston is extremely welcome.'
'Scottish Development International worked hard to secure this project and it is being supported by a Regional Selective Assistance grant from the executive of 800,000 GBP.'
Martin Togneri, Scottish Development International (SDI) chief executive, said: 'BSkyB is a long-term inward investor to Scotland, having grown its operations over 5,000 people.'
A spokeswoman for BSkyB said: 'We've enjoyed a big presence here since 1989 and we're impressed with the quality of our existing Scottish workforce which currently stands at around 6,000 people across sites.'
'Recent developments this year include opening a brand new contact centre in Uddingston and launching a graduate training scheme within our customer operations group.'
Eurofound (2006), BSkyB, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64319, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64319.
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...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
The more employee monitoring resembles surveillance – with its systematic, continuous and detailed tracking of employees' activities, behaviours or communications – the greater the potential for infringement of both privacy and data protection rights. Although the EU General Data Protection...
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...
