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Norwegian consulting firm Techconsult is hiring between 100 and 150 new employees, primarily engineers. The recruitment process has already started, and the new positions will be filled before the end of the year.
The reason for the expansion is the largest new contract in the company's 15-year history. Techconsult has been hired to supply ABB with engineers, technical assistance and administrative personnel to all divisions in the ABB corporation.
Sources
5 April 2014: Budstikka
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Techconsult, Business expansion in Norway, factsheet number 76829, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76829.
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.
