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Last year, Autoglass announced<\/a> that it was shedding 400 jobs. A reader also furnished me with some additional information<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt has been very quiet in the intervening 9 months, but the dramatic increase in the numbers of people finding the blog on terms involving \u201cAutoglass\u201d made me suspect something was afoot. And here is the It\u2019s worth a reminder that Autoglass announced last June that it was to shed 10% (400) of its workforce because people apparently were driving more carefully and not breaking as many windscreens.<\/p>\n This latest story says that Autoglass is beginning a \u201cconsultation period\u201d with staff after announcing a reduction in contact centres and branches. These closures have apparently been briefed to staff as \u201coperational changes\u201d (that gives me flashbacks again to when I worked in the rat race). I like how it says this is to \u201cimprove efficiency\u201d \u2013 last year, it was because no one was breaking windscreens!<\/p>\n In short, Autoglass has got to make people redundant because it is losing money \u2013 you can\u2019t dress it up any more than that.<\/p>\n Another surprise is that whereas the original story mentioned 400 jobs, this latest one involves 52 call centre staff and the closure of 16 branches, involving a further 500 staff. That second figure was not provided by the official Autoglass spokeswoman, but \u201ca source\u201d.<\/p>\n So, not 400 but over 550 staff look set to lose their jobs.<\/p>\n To be honest, when you read this latest story, it bears almost no resemblance to the one from last summer. It\u2019s hard to believe the redundancies are part of the same issue.<\/p>\n Good luck to all those involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an old story. As of December 2014 I cannot find any further updates, although the story is currently receiving quite a few hits. Last year, Autoglass announced that it was shedding 400 jobs. A reader also furnished me with some additional information. It has been very quiet in the intervening 9 months, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}news story that proves it<\/del> (link now dead).<\/p>\n