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.
TietoEnator, a Scandinavian firm that operates in the information technology sector, announced on 7 February 2008 that it is to create 560 new jobs in 2008 at its site in Ostrava. According to company's human resources specialist, 200 new positions are available for newly graduates.This is an update to a previous announcement. On 5 December 2007, the company announced its plans to create 400 new jobs at the Ostrava site by the end of 2008.
As of December 2007, the Ostrava site employed 1,100. Newspaper reports also stated that the firm had moved sections of its Scandinavian customer service operations to its Ostrava site in 2007.
Eurofound (2007), TietoEnator, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 66107, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66107.
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