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.
Information / Communication Information Service Activities Digital Infrastructure Services 63.1 - Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals
45 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 September 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2021
Foreseen end date
31 December 2021
Description
Multinational technology company Google plans to hire between 40 and 50 employees with well-developed digital skills at its new data centre in Hamina, southern Finland. At the moment Google employs approximately 350 people in Hamina and wants to bring their number up to 400. The centre will be sixth for the company in Finland and it will start operating in 2021.
Google established its first data centre in Hamina in 2011. The company has so far invested approximately €2 billion in the region. The establishment has also boosted demand for wind power in Finland as the complex is powered by renewable electricity from three new wind farms.
Eurofound (2020), Google, Business expansion in Finland, factsheet number 101819, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101819.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
