Econocom is Belgium’s first business group to adopt Societas Europaea (SE) status. In 2006 when the company employed a modest 3,000 it set up a European Works Council (EWC) that has become, with only minor changes in how it operates, the works council for the new SE. However its objective has been clarified, and that is to work towards developing a global social basis for all of the group’s employees worldwide.
Setting out its European mission. For Jean-Philippe Roesch, Executive Director of the group, the changes are about putting a coherent picture for Econocom in place. “Since its inception, Econocom was conceived of as a European group with European clients and European ambitions. An SE (Societas Europaea) status is totally in line with how the group operates and with how it was established,” he explained to Planet Labor, continuing, “Instead of opting to merge our subsidiaries we decided that our parent company quoted on the Brussels stock exchange would adopt SE status.”
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