Digicel’s headquarters in Jamaica announced last week that the company is planning a 25 percent reduction to its global workforce, which encompasses 31 markets throughout the Caribbean, Central America and the South Pacific.
The company announced the cuts after explaining plans to restructure its organisation to have two regional hubs apiece in the Caribbean, Central America and the South Pacific that will centralise certain services and allow its local markets to focus on sales and enhanced service delivery.
“This will result in an approximate 25 percent reduction of the global workforce over the next 18 months,” Digicel stated, adding that the process was to start yesterday with an offer to employees of an “enhanced voluntary separation programme.”
It’s not clear how the reduction will impact Digicel’s Virgin Islands branch: Antonia Graham, Digicel’s head of group public relations, told the Beacon that the programme is voluntary, and thus the company can’t predict which markets will be impacted the most.
See the March 2, 2017 edition for full coverage.
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