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.
Global consulting company Ernst and Young (EY) has announced that it will create 750 new jobs at its units across Poland by the end of 2018. About 300 positions are expected to be created at two newly opened EY Global Delivery Services (EY GDS) in Wrocław and Warsaw, another 450 in other Poland’s units. The company has just leased offices with a total floor space of 3,400 m2 and over 10,000 m2 in the cities of Warsaw and Wrocław respectively. The new competence centres will be related to the development of new technologies. EY is looking for programmers, Robotic Process Automation specialists as well as project managers and business analysts.
EY provides auditing services, tax consultancy, business consulting and transaction advisory. EY employs over 247,570 employees worldwide and has offices in over 150 countries. In Poland, it has nearly 3,200 specialists working in seven offices: in Warsaw, Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Łódź, Poznań and Wrocław.
Eurofound (2018), Ernst & Young, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 94331, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/94331.
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