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.
Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities 82 - Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
600 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
8 February 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2007
Foreseen end date
30 June 2007
Description
D+S Europe, a leading provider for integral customer management services (call centre, fax or postal services) to major companies such as Hanse EON and AOL, will create 600 new jobs in the first half of 2007. This announcement, made in February 2007, follows the creation of 600 jobs in 2006. The company announced its plans to expand its call center operations in Bremerhaven, Itzehoe, Frankfurt (Oder), Hamburg and Augsburg.
Sources
8 February 2007: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Citation
Eurofound (2007), D+S Europe, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 64919, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64919.
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.
