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 Publishing Of Information; Production And Programming Of Audiovisual Programming And Broadcasting Activities 60.20 - Television programming and broadcasting activities
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 November 2019
Employment effect (start)
3 November 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
The media and entertainment company Sky is creating 1,000 new jobs in the UK. The company is currently recruiting 500 engineers and 500 customer service staff. The engineers will be employed on permanent contracts throughout the country to install new TV platforms in private residencies, while the contact agents will be employed at a new customer support centre in Leeds, in the north of England. The business expansion is due to growing customer demand.
Sky is Europe’s largest media company – it owns Sky News and employs 25,000 employees in the UK and Ireland.
Eurofound (2019), Sky, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 99240, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99240.
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