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Information / Communication Publishing Of Information; Production And Programming Of Audiovisual Publishing Activities 58.29 - Other software publishing
172 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
11 May 2023
Employment effect (start)
11 May 2023
Foreseen end date
31 December 2024
Description
Telenav, a US provider of connected car and location-based software and services, will dismiss 172 employees at its Cluj-Napoca (Cluj County) center. The company will close its Cluj-Napoca center by the end of 2024. All the activity developed by the company at Cluj-Napoca centre will transfer to other Telenav locations in the US and China.
All 172 affected employees are offered a comprehensive redundancy packages to help them through the transition. The company entered the Romanian market in 2008 and by the end of 2021 had 237 employees at its Cluj-Napoca center.
According to the company’s announcement, the layoffs will come as a consequence of the difficult macroeconomic environment.
Eurofound (2023), Telenav, Relocation in Romania, factsheet number 109024, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/109024.
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