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 26.3 - Manufacture of communication equipment
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 September 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
CommScope CZ has opened a new antenna manufacturing facility in Brno and expects the facility to have more than 500 employees once fully staffed. The Brno site will produce base station antennas for wireless operators across Europe. CommScope Inc. is a multinational telecommunications company based in the United States. Globally, the company employs some 15,000 people.
Sources
3 September 2015: Mobiletoday
2 September 2015: Company press release
Citation
Eurofound (2015), CommScope CZ, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 84817, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84817.
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.
