10-12-14 7:50 pm – Source: Reuters
KPN’s headquarters. © anp
KPN removes approximately 580 jobs at its part that serves the business market. The telecom company announced today at the same time to take 200 engineers at its consumententak
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Corporate clients are increasingly switching from traditional to products are based on the less labor-intensive IP technology, according to the company. There is also an increasing demand include cloud and hosting services. “At the same time shrink many Dutch companies, eg delayed by closing branches and investments in ICT.
According to KPN, the business market as a whole contracted by these developments, the company’s revenue in this segment under pressure. “Revenue from new services is still insufficient to compensate for this”
. ‘Radical’
CEO Eelco Blok said to realize that the surgery “is radical and important impact on colleagues who are affected.” Nevertheless, the job cuts’ in order to strengthen our position in the corporate market. “
KPN takes the figures for the first half of 2015, a provision of approximately € 50 million in connection with the operation. The company expects the operation from 2016 lead to annual savings of 45 million.
It is the second major round of layoffs this year. KPN was published in February in the period to 2016 between 1500 and 2000 to delete the jobs with the aim of cost savings of 300 million.
KPN put in consumententak already ‘a lot of steps “to make it easier of the company. According to the group, the positive effects already evident in the results. “The number of customers is growing again, and customer satisfaction is well above the market average.
The job cuts has been submitted to the works council and the trade unions. Employees made redundant, are entitled to the social plan, KPN
(Edited by: Editorial).
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