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.
On 18 July 2017, the financial service provider Deutsche Bank announced it will cut about 140 out of 800 jobs within its Wealth Management Department in Germany.
Deutsche Bank plans to focus its asset management business on particularly wealthy customers. The limit for the minimum investable assets will be 2 million Euro. The 10% to 15% of customers in the lower range will be moved to the private banking business. Daniel Kalczynski, joint managing director of Deutsche Bank's Wealth Management, believes that customers with lower assets require standard products and will therefore be better served with digital products in the private banking business.
The restructuring measures will see 140 jobs transferred to private banking or cut altogether. Deutsche Bank aims to implement the job cuts mainly through natural fluctuation. Some new staff members will also be employed, but no exact figures have not been released so far.
Eurofound (2017), Deutsche Bank , Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 91634, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/91634.
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...
