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Education Education Other Education 85.6 - Educational support activities
New offshoring locations
Turkey
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
21 December 2022
Employment effect (start)
13 January 2023
Foreseen end date
Description
GoStudent, a Viennese Start-up that offers platform-based tutoring, announced job cuts in the beginning of 2023 shorty before Christmas due to poor economic environment. The company itself does not give concrete numbers, but the trade union states that about 200 of 490 employees have been exempted until January 13th, 2023. The employees were offered a termination by mutual agreement. Barbara Teiber, the chairwoman of the trade union GPA states that the company is missing a works council and therefore no social plan was negotiated. In a written statement, Felix Ohswald from GoStudent confirms planned job cuts, because "the purchasing power is at a record low". Due to restructuring measures, first steps have been initiated. Parts of the company are going to be outsourced and operated from Turkey with temporary workers.
Eurofound (2022), GoStudent, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Austria, factsheet number 108338, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108338.
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