Cathay Pacific overseas operations to be affected by ‘review’ of workforce
Cathay Pacific Airways would start a “comprehensive review” of staffing at overseas airports and in its foreign offices, the airline’s human resources chief said. The review will affect 7,600 staff outside Hong Kong in more than 100 places. The airline recently cut 600 head office jobs from a total workforce of 26,674. The company acknowledged the jobs audit would have an “impact”. But it was too early to tell if the review would recommend further redundancies or just changes in workers’ roles. “We’re starting a comprehensive review of our outports, how they work with HQ, which will have an impact on their own organisational structures,” Tom Owen, the airline’s human resources director, announced in the company’s staff magazine. Owen also confirmed that the earlier restructuring of its head office was now complete. The redundancies in May marked the biggest round of job cuts by Hong Kong’s premier airline in 20 years. “We haven’t touched on the outports,” a Cathay Pacific source said, adding it was “the obvious next step, now that Hong Kong has been reorganised.” “We have to do a complete review first, and then we’ll have a blueprint of what needs to be reorganised to make the company more competitive and agile.”<br/>
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Cathay Pacific overseas operations to be affected by ‘review’ of workforce
Cathay Pacific Airways would start a “comprehensive review” of staffing at overseas airports and in its foreign offices, the airline’s human resources chief said. The review will affect 7,600 staff outside Hong Kong in more than 100 places. The airline recently cut 600 head office jobs from a total workforce of 26,674. The company acknowledged the jobs audit would have an “impact”. But it was too early to tell if the review would recommend further redundancies or just changes in workers’ roles. “We’re starting a comprehensive review of our outports, how they work with HQ, which will have an impact on their own organisational structures,” Tom Owen, the airline’s human resources director, announced in the company’s staff magazine. Owen also confirmed that the earlier restructuring of its head office was now complete. The redundancies in May marked the biggest round of job cuts by Hong Kong’s premier airline in 20 years. “We haven’t touched on the outports,” a Cathay Pacific source said, adding it was “the obvious next step, now that Hong Kong has been reorganised.” “We have to do a complete review first, and then we’ll have a blueprint of what needs to be reorganised to make the company more competitive and agile.”<br/>
