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.
French multinational IT company Atos has announced that it will create 150 new jobs at four of its units across Poland (Wrocław, Bydgoszcz, Warszawa and Kraków). The company is looking for business consultants with knowledge of foreign languages who will provide services to customers from all European countries.
Atos is a multinational IT company, which operates in 72 countries and employs over 100,000 people. In Poland, Atos has been operating since 2000. The company has branches in six Polish cities (Warszawa, Wrocław, Bydgoszcz, Łódź, Toruń and Gdańsk) at which it employs over 4,000 people.
Eurofound (2016), Atos, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 89434, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/89434.
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