State-owned company must save 42 million francs: hundreds of postal jobs are at stake!

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The Swiss Post has earmarked 70 million francs for the Zillbach forest in Germany. The fact that the state-owned company is on the wrong track with this investment is not only criticized by experts because of the CO₂ savings. The problem also plays out in politics.

The employees now have the feeling that things are not going well at the state-owned company: the post office is saving. In addition to a well-known efficiency program for logistics services and the bundling of office space, costs are to be reduced by a further CHF 42 million, according to the documents available at Blick. De Postgroep confirms the cost-cutting program and its scope.

Experts assume about 300 employees who could lose their jobs as a result. The post describes the number as “speculative”. But spokesperson Tobias Lang admits: “But yes, with a project of this size, we have to expect an impact on the employees.” Swiss Post would absorb any negative effects with a social plan.

How did you get the number?

Internally, the big topic is how many jobs will be lost as a result of the cuts. In the absence of other options, costs would have to be reduced almost exclusively through job cuts.

If you assume the savings order of 42 million and calculate that wages including social benefits of 150,000 francs are not unreasonable in the postal administration, you arrive at 280 full-time jobs that could be lost. Due to part-time work, the number of those affected will probably be slightly higher. Even if a million or two can be saved elsewhere, a total of 300 workers are at risk.

He must fear for his job

The fact that the job losses have hardly caused a stir so far is not only due to the poor half-year figures: profits fell by 141 million to 118 million francs, everyone is aware that something has to change. The fact that there is no outrage also has to do with the fact that postmen and parcel sorters do not have to jump the knife for once.

Of course, not those at the very top either: in the savings program “Efficiency and Development Functions”, abbreviated to “EF”, the administrative areas of finance, human resources, communications, information / technology and the staff of the CEO Roberto Cirillo (51) must each receive ten percent of the costs. By the end of the year they have to show how. The savings measures will be implemented from March 2024 and must be effective by 2025 at the latest.

Ticket demand modest

As far as the austerity program is concerned, not only the new post forest in Germany is slanted in the landscape. But also a two-day festival with stars in a multipack. De Post emphasizes that the festival was a thank you to the employees. A small consolation in view of the string concert that follows.

Demand for tickets to the festival was moderate. Twice as many employees could have participated. So everyone who wanted to could participate on both days instead of just one. The Post even produced video clips to encourage employees to attend the event. CEO Cirillo personally drummed in for the festival with DJ Bobo and Co. When Blick asked about the cost of the event, the federal company said the final bill was still pending. Reference is made to the budget limit of three million francs.

Comparing apples to oranges

Even the Swiss Post is being “cheated” when it spends 70 million on trees and up to 3 million on stars while cutting back on staff: Katrin Nussbaumer, co-head of staff at Cirillo, explains in an internal video for employees the question of how the austerity program matches the post-festival or the purchase of the forest, one compares “apples to oranges”. Internally, this caused ridicule: “Why not?”, people joke. “After all, they both grow on trees, and the Swiss Post now knows about it.”

And Matthias Dietrich, with whom Nussbaumer shares the position in the field of “top sharing” (no, not job sharing), reminded “zum Waaald” in the clip of the state-owned company’s climate goals. And “en bref”, in other words: to be fit, Swiss Post has to start working on its cost structure today.

However, the working population is not told why the change of ownership of a piece of forest should help the climate. Maybe that’s the subject of the next savings video.

Source:Blick