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.
Outsourcing company Sitel has announced plans to create 300 new jobs at its site in Plymouth. The company, which started operating in the city in 2017, is able to offer these new positions due to a major contract with an unnamed large national company. The majority of the positions will be offered initially as short-term contracts of three to six months, but with the possibility to become permanent subsequently. The recruitment for the new positions began during December 2017 and the new jobs will be added throughout January and February 2018.
Eurofound (2017), Sitel, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 92930, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/92930.
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,...
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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...
