{"id":274561,"date":"2018-10-01T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=274561"},"modified":"2018-10-01T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:14:46","slug":"liquid-telecom-announces-retrenchments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/274561\/liquid-telecom-announces-retrenchments\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Telecom announces retrenchments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid Telecom SA has announced a new digitally-enhanced operating model &#8211; which includes the automation of many tasks for which people are currently responsible.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday (1 October), the company said that this new operating model, coupled with increased automation, will see retrenchments taking place at the telecoms operator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our adoption of technologies has resulted in the company contemplating structural changes that supports a digitally enhanced operating model,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The change may result in a reduction of the company\u2019s full-time staff complement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have already informed all staff members of the decision and our main priority will be to support our people over the forthcoming weeks as we go through the consultation process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through this transition period, Liquid Telecom remains committed to building Africa\u2019s digital future and collaborating with our customers to connect, innovate and grow throughout their entire digitization journey,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/277757-liquid-telecom-sas-digitally-enhanced-operating-model-to-lead-to-job-losses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband<\/a> <\/strong>about the new operating model, Liquid Telecom SA CEO Reshaad Sha said it was a result of an assessment of the company\u2019s existing business.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the assessment found areas that were not optimally suited for their business, which necessitated a change in the way the company operates.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/271905\/liquid-telecom-in-possible-ipo-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liquid Telecom in possible IPO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid Telecom SA has announced a new digitally-enhanced operating model &#8211; which includes the automation of many tasks for which people are currently responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,5085],"class_list":["post-274561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-liquid-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274561"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274573,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274561\/revisions\/274573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}