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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26 - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
31 May 2010
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Japanese Sony Corporation is to create between 200 and 250 new jobs at a new site located in Štěnovice near the Plzeň city. The company will rent one of the storage halls that belong to ProLogis. The new facility will be focusing on production and packaging Blu-ray Discs, CDs and DVDs. The firm is looking for people who will be working on two-shift basis. As of May 2010, there is no information on when new jobs are to be implemented by
Sources
31 May 2010: Lidové Noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Sony Corporation, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 70599, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70599.
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.
