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 Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62.01 - Computer programming activities
99 jobs Number of planned job losses
490 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
24 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2018
Foreseen end date
1 January 2021
Description
IBM France has announced the opening of its first French Security Operations Center (SOC) to detect and analyse computer attacks. The centre will be based in Lille (Nord). This centre, which currently has about ten employees, should reach 100 employees within three years. 90 recruitments are thus planned. In addition, the shared services centre, which currently employs 600 people, is also expected to grow up to 1,000 employees within three years. In total the group is expected to create 490 positions within three years at Lille.
At the same time, IBM has announced a voluntary departure plan at the national level to cut 99 jobs. Negotiations will be ongoing for the next month.
Sources
24 January 2018: Les Echos
8 February 2018: Le Figaro
Citation
Eurofound (2018), IBM, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 93227, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93227.
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.
