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.
Information / Communication Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities Computer Programming, Consultancy And Related Activities 62 - Computer programming, consultancy and related activities
1,500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 January 2019
Employment effect (start)
18 January 2019
Foreseen end date
1 January 2024
Description
US software company Salesforce has announced plans to increase its employment in Ireland by 1,500, over the next five years. The announcement of 1,500 new jobs is one of the largest company job expansions linked to IDA Ireland, the State development body which supported the investment. The new positions will be in sales, customer support, engineering and business services.
Salesforce also plans to build a new centre in Dublin and has gained planning permission for it. As of January 2019, the company employs 1,000 people in Ireland.
Eurofound (2019), Salesforce, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 96457, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96457.
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.
