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Information / Computing 61 - Telecommunication 61.1 - Wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities 61.10 - Wired, wireless, and satellite telecommunication activities
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
1 October 2013
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
Telecommunications and internet provider Bouygues Telecom is to create 200 positions.
The business expansion is part of the company’s involvement in the development of a new mobile telephone network. This network is to increase its competitiveness against low-cost competitors.
As of the announcement date, the company had already filled 70 of the 200 positions.
Bouygues Telecom employs about 9,300 staff in France. This is after July 2012 when the company had announced a voluntary departure plan in order to cut 556 positions (6% of its workforce).
Sources
2 October 2013: Les Echos
17 October 2012: Libération
1 October 2013: Le Figaro
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Bouygues Telecom, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 75943, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/75943.