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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Household Equipment In Specialised Stores 47.52 - Retail Sale Of Hardware, Paints And Glass In Specialised Stores
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
11 March 2024
Employment effect (start)
11 March 2024
Foreseen end date
Description
Tout Faire, France's largest network of independent building material traders, has announced that it plans to create 1,000 jobs at its sites across France.
The company has launched its ‘Exit Bullshit Jobs’ recruitment campaign to attract candidates. The initiative targets workers seeking meaningful roles, using tactics like pre-filled resignation letters distributed via print media, stickers placed in co-working spaces, billboards near office buildings, and digital outreach on LinkedIn and programmatic platforms.
Tout Faire has 450 locations across France and Belgium. The chain employs over 4,000 people.
Eurofound (2024), Tout Faire, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 202066, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/202066.
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.
