A Booking.com spokesperson has confirmed to NU.nl that the company will be laying off “more than two hundred and fewer than a thousand” people in the Netherlands.
This development comes after Booking.com’s parent company announced in November that it planned to reduce its workforce.
Roughly a thousand jobs are at risk overall, hundreds of which are expected to be lost in the Netherlands.
Booking.com employs no less than 7,000 people in Amsterdam, many of them internationals.
Profits are fine, but there will be job losses
However, this move doesn’t come due to dwindling profits. In fact, parent company Booking Holdings saw its profits increase by 37% last year, enjoying €5 billion in net profit.
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Nope, money isn’t the issue. According to the spokesperson, the platform wants to operate more efficiently. 🙄
“We don’t want so many layers in the organisation anymore,” the spokesperson tells NU.nl. “Our people manage the work of other managers. It’s become too bureaucratic.”
How many jobs will be lost exactly?
While the spokesperson confirms that the reorganisation will “certainly have an impact”, aside from a margin between 200 and 1000, they don’t give any specific number for how many jobs will be lost in the Netherlands.
They say the company is “in the middle of the process”, and more will be known in a few weeks.
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