The telecommunications provider Vodafone Germany wants to offer a savings package save and relocate around 2,000 jobs. The company announced this on Tuesday in Düsseldorf.
Vodafone has so far around 15,000 employees in Germany, about a third of them in the North Rhine-Westphalia state capital. This would be from the program 13 percent of employees affected. Overall, Vodafone wants to use the package of measures over the next two years Save 400 million euros.
In order to achieve the desired financial effect of around 400 million euros, not only would staff positions be saved, but Material and operating costs are also reduced said company boss Philipp Rogge in a speech to the employees. The measures are, for example, about: Systems that are outdated or duplicated after company takeovers. Rogge is leaving the company at the end of March.
Vodafone Germany is located has been in the process of change for years. Under Rogge’s predecessor Hannes Ametsreiter, many customers recently complained that Vodafone, for example, was full-bodied when it came to landline connections Not keeping advertising promises could.
But there should also be new jobs
Rogge now explained that Vodafone has started to realign itself – and has returned to growth with improved networks and offerings in recent quarters. “Vodafone therefore wants to continue to do so in the next two years easier, faster, leaner and therefore more powerful set up.”
As part of the “transformation program,” “simpler products and services” will be developed in the future. Costs should primarily come from the Dismantling complex structures and modernizing network elements and IT systems be reduced.
Vodafone will be responsible for the personnel changes act in a socially responsible manner promised Rogge, who only took over the CEO position from Ametsreiter in July 2022. Certain manual activities would be carried out in the future increased automation be exercised. Vodafone wants in other areas but also hire new people. Growth areas such as the cloud business and “customer-related positions, especially in the corporate customer area” are to be strengthened with experts.