Telia Global Services Lithuania, which is the Vilnius-based competency subsidiary of Sweden’s Telia Company, has announced that it is laying off 153 of its employees as part of an attempt to streamline operations. Previously it had been thought that 200 would be sacked.
The company notified the Lithuanian Employment Service of the layoffs on Monday.
“The initial figures that were announced in early September – 200 employees at Telia Global Services Lithuania and another 200 at Telia Lithuania – those represent the number of positions over the course of the year,” BNS was told by Nerijus Petrauskas, director for communications at Telia Global Services Lithuania.
“The number of positions remains the same. The 200 planned layoffs have been spread out over the course of the year, and now we are saying goodbye to 153 people in November,” he added.
Petrauskas says that the exact date for the layoffs is not yet known, but Telia will implement its new organisational structure next month.
“There are various timelines, and so I can’t provide one specific date,” the head of communications said. “In general, the Telia programme is aimed at creating a new organisational structure that will be in place by December 1.”
The Employment Service told BNS that 20 of the layoffs at Telia Global Services Lithuania will involve software developers, 17 will be management and organisational analysts, and 13 will be application developers.
149 of those affected work in Vilnius, while another two are based in Kaunas and two in Siauliai.
Telia Lithuania is an integrated telecoms company in Lithuania, and it informed the Employment Service of 102 layoffs back in October.
Company spokesman Audrius Stasiulaitis told BNS at the time that the number was “half as low” as had originally been announced. That was because of natural employee turnover, unfilled positions with workloads that were redistributed, as well as the elimination of some positions in favour of external consultants, he explained.
Source: BNS
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