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Information / Communication Information Service Activities Digital Infrastructure Services 63.1 - Data processing, hosting and related activities; web portals
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 May 2019
Employment effect (start)
14 May 2019
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
The US IT giant Google announced that will be creating 100 new jobs at its Google Safety Engineering Centre in Munich until the end of 2019. This means, that Google will double its workforce at the GSEC in Munich. This step shows that Google is paying more attention to online privacy and its willingness to improve the latter.
Furthermore, Google announced, that it will create a promotion fund of €10 million to support NGOs, universities, research institutes and social companies which are working in cyber and data security.
Eurofound (2019), Google, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 97760, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97760.
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