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.
Microsoft has announced the creation of 150 new jobs at its campus in Dublin, of which 100 will be in engineering and 50 in digital sales and data center operations. A further 50 positions are to be available for the company’s graduate and intern program. With this move, the total number of the IT company's employees in Ireland will increase to 2,200. The One Microsoft Place campus, which will house the new recruits, cost €134 million and opened in early 2018. In 2017, Microsoft announced the recruitment of 200 people (Microsoft Ireland 2017).
Eurofound (2018), Microsoft, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 95455, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/95455.
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...
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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...
