Glovo will lay off 250 workers. Cuts do not reach Portugal – Companies
Glovo will lay off 250 workers, equivalent to 6.5% of its global workforce, in a measure described as “necessary”, taken to “prepare the business for the future” and which, for now, will have no impact on Portugal.
The announcement was made this Monday by the Spanish home delivery company and comes a week after the Spanish Labor Inspection imposed new guarantees on Glovo worth 56.7 million euros for false self-employed workers and irregular work by foreigners , bringing the accumulated to more than 205 million euros.
According to Glovo, the decision to cut manpower” is impacting mainly at headquarters in Barcelona, in areas of business support, recruitment and data. Only a few local markets will be impacted by this decision, with reductions limited to single digits. ‘picker’ or frontline employee will be affected and we do not expect any impact to our operations”.
“In Portugal we have no impact and we do not prevent any interruption in our operations. Glovo’s commitment to Portugal remains unchanged”, guarantees the company, in a statement sent to Negócios.
In a statement addressed to the workers, quoted by the Spanish press, the company’s managing director, Óscar Pierre, assured that the cut in personnel “was not in the plans for six months”. However, he explained, Glovo has begun to see “a slowdown” in annual growth rates, as well as demand, which he attributes to interest rates and survival, as well as the loss of consumer purchasing power.