The President and CEO of McDonald’s, Chris Kempczinski, has issued a warning this Friday. The CEO of the burger joint notifies all of his staff that there may be layoffs in the spring.
“We will have to take difficult decisions in the future,” Kempczinski wrote in a memo to employees. “Some jobs that exist today will be moved or will disappear“He added, marking the most probable date to carry out these movements, which is part of a new strategy for the fast food restaurant chain, the April 3.
McDonald’s has close to 200,000 employees scattered all over the world. At the moment, it is unknown if the plans to eliminate jobs will affect the premises that it has distributed throughout Spain or they will dodge the area.
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These layoffs could be due to the fact that the chain closed the first half of last year with a net profit of 2,292 million dollars (about 2,150 million euros), 39% less compared to the same period of 2021. As other companies do, in order to maintain the profit margin, they begin to adjust expenses for templates.
In the last quarter of 2022, McDonald’s increased its sales in the US by more than 6%.