Posted on 06/27/2002 7:06:32 PM PDT by Willie Green
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PARIS (AP) — French computer services and consulting firm Cap Gemini Ernst & Young said Thursday it will cut 5,500 jobs, or 10 percent of its work force, over the next six months as it adjusts to the slump in the telecommunications and financial services businesses.
The job reductions, designed to streamline its administrative operations, come on top of 5,400 job cuts last year. The company currently employs 55,000 people worldwide.
The technology sector investment boom of the late 1990s has largely vanished, and Cap Gemini's clients are focusing on making those investments profitable, the company said.
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young also announced a new management structure to improve profitability and sales in its three main businesses — consulting, information technology and outsourcing.
``This is a transformation plan designed to meet the new fundamentals of the market,'' said spokesman Philippe Guichardaz. ``We're trying to adapt the business model to the conditions of the market.''
Guichardaz said that 2,500 of the job cuts are to take place immediately in the telecom and financial service sectors. Another 3,000 jobs, largely in back-office positions, are to be eliminated by January. However, about half of those employees are to be offered positions elsewhere within the Paris-based company, he said.
Cap Gemini will take a charge of 140 million euros ($138 million) related to the 2,500 job cuts, which are expected to save it about 230 million euros ($227 million) per year.
Guichardaz said Cap Gemini hasn't determined the cost of the larger restructuring.
The company also said it expects operating profit margins for the first half of 2002 to fall sharply from the 3.9 percent in the second half of 2001 due to a slump in demand for its technology and consulting services, as well as price pressure.
The company is to release provisional results for the first half of 2002 on July 25.
In trading in Paris, shares of Cap Gemini closed up 0.21 percent to 42.84 euros ($42.36).
But wait aren't the French protectionist....hmmmm
Who the heck are these eruo folks ???
Please make that euro-trash extra heavy on the chesse
Cheese-eatin surrender monkeys.
Care to by a French WWII rifle, never fired, dropped once.
Only if was picked up by a German while walking down a French Blvd under a shade tree.
This must be the official title of the French - my husband calls them this too......... having served with some of their finest in a Multinational Peacekeeping Force.........
This must be the official title of the French
I believe so.
The employees who work in these CGEY branch offices may disagree with you.
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