Citibank Job Cut Arrives in Malaysia
By Zul • Nov 20th, 2008 • Category: Featured Articles •
Citigroup’s job cut wave seems to have arrived in Malaysia, sparking fear of job loss for some of the 4,000 staff the group employs under its flagship bank, Citibank.
In a news published by the Business Times, the CEO of Citibank Malaysia, Sanjeev Nanavati was reported to say that “staff numbers will be cut slightly as it seeks to be more efficient and productive”.
However, no details of the job cut plan was disclosed or elaborated.
Citibank Malaysia’s staff are scattered around 7 branches located in Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Johor and Penang.
A few days ago, Citigroup, from its global headquarter in New York, announced a massive layoff exercise involving more than 50,000 staff worldwide working in various divisions and subsidiaries of the group, including Citibank. It is part of the plan to trim the company’s total workforce by 20%. The layoff also involves selling off some risky and unprofitable assets, which will result in the transfer of the group’s employees to different companies.
Citibank is the first bank from the United States to have started their operation in Malaysia. As of February 2008, Citibank is the 7th largest bank in the world by market capitalization, in a list dominated by banks from China, with three of them occupying the top 10 ranking.
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Maybe some of the many arrogant Citibank staff will be laid off….and the work ethics of public Bank will creep in…..
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I think so. Maybe the Management should also be laid off as some of them are burden to the company.
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couldn’t agree more with TIRED.Now may be some of the will-be-jobless recovery executives can start thinking of starting their own small business start ups.Fund the start ups with the credit card available.In one year time, when your business start nosediving, your remaining unretrenched colleagues from the recovery department will call you up and you start telling them the truth, hoping for some understanding, not compassion, and I think you know what they will retort back………after all you have been memorizing the line all this while…….to all to-be-retrenched citibank staff-God doesn’t bless you-i hope not…and i hope the future will be the bleakest ever for you…..adios
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