The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53.10 - Postal Activities Under Universal Service Obligation
250 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
26 September 2024
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2025
Description
Posten Bring, Norway's largest postal and logistics provider, announced it will cut 250 jobs. The cuts are the first part of a cost-saving plan to reduce NOK 1 billion in expenses by 2026. The cuts will primarily impact administrative and support positions, most located at the Oslo headquarters and regional offices. The company does not rule out further future job reductions, potentially affecting operational roles such as postal carriers. The company points to rising competition and falling mail volumes as reasons for restructuring. Increasing automation and use of AI is also referred to. Unions have largely acknowledged the necessity of these changes, focusing on negotiations to mitigate impacts through early retirements and other measures.
Posten Bring is a nordic logistics company evolved from the national postal service of Norway, providing postal and logistical services across the country. Posten Bring has been actively investing in automation and digitalization, which has been a contributing factor to job reductions in recent years.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
