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.
South East; Hampshire and Isle of Wight; Hampshire CC
Location of affected unit(s)
Andover
Sector
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.10 - Warehousing and storage
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 October 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
Online supermarket retailer Ocado has announced plans to create 200 new jobs at its site in Andover, Hampshire. The business is seeking warehouse operatives to work in its distribution centre at the town's Walworth Business Park. Currently 600 staff work at the site, so the new jobs will expand the number of workers by one third. The jobs are expected to be added in advance of the busy Christmas period, though the positions are permanent and will continue afterwards. The news of Ocado's decision has been welcomed by the local chamber of commerce.
Sources
2 October 2017: Andover Advertiser
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Ocado, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 92200, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92200.
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.
