Adevinta France, owner of Leboncoin but also of Argus or Paycar, announced this Thursday the elimination of 137 positions, reports
Les Échos
.
As a reminder, Adevinta France is the French subsidiary of the Norwegian company Adevinta, which specializes in classified ads.
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Antoine Jouteau, the general manager of Adevinta France and Leboncoin, has indeed announced before the elected representatives of the social and economic committee (CSE) of the company the opening of a project for a plan to safeguard employment (PSE). ).
137 employees are therefore concerned out of the 1,500 positions of the French subsidiary of Adevinta “
The plan provides for 110 job cuts and 27 positions redeployed in other functions
”, Antoine Joudeau told Les
Échos
.
“
The positions concerned are cross-functional positions at Leboncoin, Argus, Locasun and MB Diffusion in particular.
The departments affected will be human resources, finance, management of information systems, communication and legal
,” adds a spokesperson for the
.
A PES feasible until mid-2023
Adevinta undertakes, however, to offer internal positions, when possible, but also to provide the best possible support to the employees from whom it is separating.
The implementation of the PSE will be done until mid-2023.
"
But we have 150 positions currently open in the tech, data, sales and marketing functions
," added Antoine Jouteau, while the company's turnover grew by 6% over one year in the third quarter of 2021 and by 16% compared to 2019. Indeed, the French subsidiary of Adevinta recently carried out several external operations with in particular the acquisition of Argus, Locasun or Paycar, and the company must today rationalize its organization while pursuing its growth and continuing to recruit in the professions that allow it to develop. In France, the Leboncoin site will in particular experience an evolution of a certain number of its functionalities.
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The Adevinta group, listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange since April 2019, is globally in a restructuring phase, which concerns nearly 5% of the positions out of the group's 7,500, or around 375 employees.
