UK major oil company BP plans to reduce 10,000 employees 7:26 on June 9 due to the impact of the new Corona
British oil giant BP said it would cut 10,000, or about 15% of its global workforce, in response to a significant drop in oil demand due to the spread of the new coronavirus .
On the 8th, the British BP announced a policy to reduce 10,000 people, which is about 15% of 70,000 employees worldwide, in order to accelerate business structure reform.
The target is mainly clerical employees, and most of them will be reduced within this year.
BP explained that it is obliged to reduce labor costs, which is 8 billion dollars a year and 860 billion yen in Japanese yen, because the demand for oil has dropped significantly due to the effect of the new coronavirus and the business performance has deteriorated. I am.
In the international crude oil market, prices have picked up slightly due to the fact that each country has begun to resume economic activity and the oil-producing countries have continued large-scale production cutbacks, but demand that has fallen sharply has recovered. It will take some time before, and the oil industry remains in a difficult situation.