The UK's third largest mobile operator, which employs 12,000 UK staff, maintained that Orange is in a steady financial position but is aware of the economic conditions, hence cutting back on administration and bureaucracy.
"As part of our strategy to improve, grow and evolve the company, we are continually looking at the operation to ensure we are operating in the most efficient way possible," read a company statement. "This is the next step in that agenda, making sure that Orange fulfills its true potential as a company."
One hundred jobs are expected to go in the next quarter, while the other cuts will come from a policy of not replacing departed staff.
The news follows a swathe of job cuts at MySpace, as more evidence that the digital sector is being hit increasingly hard by the recession emerges.
Orange chief executive Tom Alexander has previously said that he wants Orange to become the market leading mobile operator in the UK by 2012.
_1.jpg)
.jpg)
