Boeing plans to make staff cuts in the aerospace company’s finance and human resources departments in 2023, losing about 2,000, the company said.
“We expect approximately 2,000 reductions primarily in Finance and HR through a combination of attrition and layoffs,” Boeing said in a statement Monday. “While no one has been notified of job losses, we will continue to share information transparently so people can plan.”
The company, which recently moved its headquarters to Arlington, Virginia, said it expects to “significantly increase” its overall workforce over the course of the year. “We increased Boeing’s workforce by 15,000 last year and plan to hire another 10,000 employees this year with a focus on engineering and manufacturing,” the statement said.
Boeing’s total workforce is 156,000 employees as of December 31, 2022, the company said.
The Seattle Times reports Boeing, already one of Washington state’s largest private employers, plans to outsource about a third of the eliminated positions to Tata Consulting Services in Bengaluru, India.
Mike Friedman, senior director of communications, told the Times that other positions will be eliminated as the company cuts financial support services and human resources.
“Over time, some of the company’s functions have grown. And with that growth tends to be bureaucracy or disparate systems that are inefficient,” Friedman said. “So we’re streamlining.”
The Times reports about 1,500 of the company’s approximately 5,800 finance positions will be cut, with up to 400 more job cuts in human resources, which is about 15% of the department’s total staff.
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