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Information / Communication Information Communication Services Telecommunications 61.2 - Wireless telecommunications activities
5,000 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 October 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
On 21 September 2012, the management of Orange announced its employment forecast for 2013-2015 with an estimated 5,000 job losses.
On one hand, the company expects to recruit around 4,000 employees on permanent contracts between 2013 and 2015. At the same time, 9,000 employees will leave the company through natural attrition. As a result, the workforce will decrease by 5,000 employees. According to the management, the staff decrease through retirement allows the company to adapt its workforce to the sharp competition within the sector since the arrival of a new low cost competitor, Free. Other mobile telephony operators as Bouygues (see here) and SFR (see here) have also announced job cuts.
Sources
5 October 2012: L'usine Nouvelle
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Orange, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 74427, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74427.
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