Boeing plans to make staffing cuts within the aerospace company’s finance and human resources departments in 2023, with a lack of around 2,000 jobs, the corporate said.
“We expect about 2,000 reductions primarily in Finance and HR through a mix of attrition and layoffs,” Boeing said in an announcement Monday. “While nobody has been notified of job loss, we’ll proceed to share information transparently to permit people to plan.”
The corporate, which recently relocated its headquarters to Arlington, Virginia, said it expects to “significantly grow” the general workforce throughout the yr. “We grew Boeing’s workforce by 15,000 last yr and plan to rent one other 10,000 employees this yr with a concentrate on engineering and manufacturing,” the statement said.
Boeing’s total workforce was 156,000 employees as of Dec. 31, 2022, the corporate said.
The Seattle Times reported Boeing, which has been considered one of the most important private employers in Washington state, plans to outsource a few third of the eliminated positions to Tata Consulting Services in Bengaluru, India.
Mike Friedman, a senior director of communications, told the Times the opposite positions shall be eliminated as the corporate makes reductions in finance and human resources support services.
“Over time, a few of our corporate functions have grown quite large. And with that growth tends to return bureaucracy or disparate systems which are inefficient,” Friedman said. “So we’re streamlining.”
The Times reported about 1,500 of the corporate’s roughly 5,800 finance positions shall be cut, with as much as 400 more job cuts in human resources, which is about 15% of the department’s total staff.
