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.
American online retailer Amazon has announced that 170 new jobs have been created at its unit in Bielany Wrocławskie, near Wrocław. The restructuring programme is associated with the implementation of a fully-robotic logistics system, named Amazon Robotics, at the warehouses. This is the first logistic centre with that system in Europe. The system involves robots bringing the shelf to the packer rather than the packer going to the shelf. The new system increases the efficiency and capacity of storage space by half. Amazon has 109 logistic centres worldwide, including 29 in Europe. Amazon has been operating in Poland since 2013 and has 3 distribution centres (two in Bielany Wrocławskie and one in Poznań) in the country. Polish centres are part of the Amazon’s distribution chain in Europe.
Eurofound (2015), Amazon, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 85818, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/85818.
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...
