telecommunications
March 26, 2024
By André Weikard
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Vodafone is laying off more than a tenth of its workforce in Germany. In many cases, the loss should be compensated for by “increased automation”.
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Vodafone is putting the red pencil on. The Telekom competitor is separating from 2,000 employees in Germany. The outgoing Vodafone boss Philippe Rogge says goodbye by announcing a radical austerity program and leaves many Vodafone employees at a loss for the Easter holidays. 2,000 of Vodafone’s current 15,000 employees will lose their jobs. Some of the jobs will be “relocated,” as the company announced. In some cases, “manual activities will be carried out through increased automation in the future”.
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Vodafone Germany wants to save €400 million by cutting jobs
Overall, Vodafone wants to save €400 million within two years through personnel measures and by reducing duplicate structures and complexity in IT systems and network elements. The company assures that the job cuts will be “proceded in a socially responsible manner”. In return, experts for the cloud and IoT business as well as in “customer-facing positions, especially in the corporate customer sector” would be hired.
Vodafone boss Philippe Rogge’s resignation only took place two weeks ago
Just two weeks ago, Philippe Rogge announced his resignation as Vodafone’s head of Germany on March 31st. The move came as a surprise to many market observers, especially since Rogge had only taken up his job at the head of the German Vodafone subsidiary two years ago. Troubled times await his successor, the previous board member for private customers Marcel de Groot.
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