Société Générale is “reorganizing”.
In a press release published this Monday, the banking group announced the elimination of around 900 positions at its headquarters, "without forced departures", or around 5% of the workforce at its headquarters.
A decision which comes as part of a cost reduction plan already announced.
“The objective is to regroup and pool certain activities and functions, to remove hierarchical layers to simplify decision-making processes” and to “resize certain teams”, explained the group in the press release, entitled “headquarters reorganization project in France ".
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This plan to cut jobs is the first by Slawomir Krupa, general director of the bank since May 2023. Its scale is almost double compared to the information published on January 19 by the Bloomberg agency, which reported a plan providing for more 500 positions eliminated.
Job cuts subject to consultation
The bank made public on September 18 a target of 1.7 billion euros in savings by 2026 (compared to 2022), during the presentation of the bank's strategic orientations by Slawomir Krupa, which was poorly received on the stock market.
According to the newspaper Les Echos, which revealed the extent of this plan on Saturday, the group's central functions in La Défense, near Paris, and IT are the main ones affected by the job cuts.
Submitted on Monday for consultation with staff representative bodies, the job cuts will be made “through internal mobility, activity transitions or voluntary departures”, indicated Société Générale.
The banking group employs some 56,000 people in France, out of 117,500 worldwide, according to its reference document.