The consultant Capgemini has announced that it will undertake an ERE in Spain in the coming months, for which it has blamed the effects that AI is having on its business model. The company currently has around 11,000 employees in Spain, but has not confirmed how many the announced employment regulation file may affect.
Capgemini has alleged that the layoffs are going to occur due to the need to adapt to the new technological environment that is transforming the demand for services. Especially in areas such as technology consulting, maintenance and development. Furthermore, its managers have recognized that the changes that AI is producing are leading to the need to redefine internal structures, as well as the professional profiles of its staff, in order to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
The ERE will take its first steps on April 23, the date on which the company’s negotiation table with the unions will be established. It will be then when the adjustment of the ERE begins and the number of layoffs in the workforce is finalized. It will also be established which of its dozen locations in Spain it will affect, and to what extent. It will also be one of the first measures of the new CEO of the consulting firm in Spain, Laurent Perea, who took office on February 1, in the midst of a restructuring that involved several changes in the local Capgemini board.
The ERE that Capgemini has announced is not exclusive to Spain, since it is part of a personnel adjustment that is underway in several of the countries in which it has a presence. Among them, France, where it has already eliminated more than 2,400 jobs. All despite reporting growth in income.
Union sources have recalled that Capgemini has carried out a dozen EREs since the 2008 crisis in Spainand they point out that it is likely that the ERE will mainly affect the company’s workers who are not currently on any project, employees who are often referred to as employees “on the bench”, which is what is known as those who are on staff waiting to be assigned to a project.
