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 IT company Atos Origin announced plans to create 850 jobs at its newly opened Service Management Center in Bydgoszcz within the next 3 years. As reported the company plans to recruit IT specialists with foreign language skills. The center will provide advanced IT services mainly to customers operating outside Poland.
The investment was accomplished with the support of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency. Atos has been operating in Poland since 2000 and it has branches in four Polish cities (Warszawa, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz and Gdańsk) employing 2,600 people.
ERM reported on previously announced restructuring events in 2013, 2012a and 2012b.
Eurofound (2014), Atos IT Services, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 77188, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/77188.
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...
