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.
On 23 September 2014 internet giant Google announced the establishment of a new data centre in Eemshaven, in the northernmost tip of the Netherlands. The building of the data centre generated some 1,000 jobs in construction, and the data centre was opened on 6 December 2016 by the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs. It will employ some 150 persons, including IT technicians, electrical and mechanical engineers. The Dutch trade union FNV expects an additional several hundred jobs to be created indirectly, e.g. in catering, facilities, and security staff. Google operates all over the world and employs some 57,000 employees worldwide.
Eurofound (2014), Google, Business expansion in Netherlands, factsheet number 89379, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/89379.