Booking.com want to a quarter of the staff are fired because of coronacrisis

if you are in the travel website Booking.com it is up to one-quarter of the staff redundant. How many people do it exactly the way in which the offices of the lay-offs occur, and what kind of jobs there will be eliminated, it is still not clear. This confirms a spokesman said Tuesday, after the notification of the NRC.

the Dutch company employs more than 17,000 people. One of them works, there are about 5,500 at our head office in Amsterdam, the netherlands. In the next few weeks, the details of a layoff continue to be evident.

According to the NRC, told the chief executive, Glenn Fogel, his staff Tuesday morning, in a video message, in which the company has a lot of experience in the coronacrisis. "In my heart, I was hoping that this wouldn't happen again. Nothing, however, can have the impact of mitigating this crisis has had, and will continue to come for both the travel industry and our business," he said.

In the first three months of this year, the decline in the number of bookings by 40 per cent as a result of the coronacrisis. Consequently, net sales decreased by 19 per cent, and the suffering of the company's 699 million u.s. dollars (about 592 million euro) loss. The figures for the last quarter have not yet been published.