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 Security And Investigation Activities Security Systems Service Activities 80.20 - Security systems service activities
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 June 2022
Employment effect (start)
29 June 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
The specialist in alarms connected to a remote surveillance service Verisure has announced the recruitment of 150 employees by 2024, achieving its goal of creating 500 jobs in Angers. The company already employs 350 people there. The reason behind the recruitment is to support the company's growth. Its CEO explains that 'the turnover of the remote surveillance market has doubled in the space of 12 years. We are recording annual growth of 16%, while the sector as a whole is growing at 8%'.
Two former announcements were recorded in the ERM Database with 150 job creations in November 2020 (Verisure-2020-FR) and 100 job creations in January 2020 (Verisure-2020-FR).
Eurofound (2022), Verisure, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 107052, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107052.
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.
