Boeing expects to cut about 2,000 white-collar jobs this year in finance and human resources through a combination of attrition and layoffs, the planemaker confirmed to the Seattle Times newspaper on Monday.
Last month, the Virginia-based company announced it would hire 10,000 workers by 2023, but some support positions would be cut.
At the time Boeing admitted it would be “reducing staff in some support functions” – a move intended to allow it to realign resources to support current product and technology development.
“Over time, some of our company’s functions have grown quite large. And with growth tends to come bureaucracy or disparate systems that are inefficient,” the newspaper quoted Mike Friedman, senior director of communications at Boeing as saying. “So we’re streamlining.”
Boeing did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
Last year, Boeing said it planned to cut about 150 finance jobs in the United States to simplify the company’s structure and focus more resources on manufacturing and product development.
