Von Ralf Keuper
Seit einigen Jahren bauen die Banken weltweit Stellen im großen Umfang ab. Zu den wenigen mir bekannten Studien, die sich mit diesem Phänomen beschäftigen, zählt der Job Loss Survey 2013 von Uni Global Union. Darin wurden 26 Länder aus allen Kontinenten untersucht.
Für das Jahr 2012 halten die Autoren fest (Hervorhebung von mir):
In total, in 23 banks which account for over 3 million workers, 105’950 jobs were lost in 19 banks and 7’872 were created in 4 banks, for a net loss of 98’450 jobs in 2012. At the same time, the same banks made some enormous profits, in the range of 1 to 28 billion dollars. Crédit agricole and Uni Credit are the only banks that lost money last year.
Hier eine Auswahl von Meldungen vom Herbst 2016 bis heute (außerhalb Deutschlands):
- UAE banking sector crisis: 3,000 jobs cut
- RBS to close 158 bank branches with 470 job losses
- Unite devastated at 400 bank job cuts
- Commonwealth Bank to cut 150 staff from Brisbane operations
- Lloyds Banking Group axing hundreds of jobs AGAIN
- Japan’s biggest bank may slash 10,000 jobs
- Barclays sparks job cuts fears with bank office overhaul
- ANZ Bank cuts thousands of jobs on road to $3.4 billion profit
- HSBC to close 62 high street branches in 2017 resulting in up to 180 job cuts
- Credit Suisse to cut up to 6,500 jobs after reporting $2.4 billion loss
- Bank of Scotland closes call centre with loss of 250 jobs
- Ulster Bank cuts 54 jobs in Belfast
- HSBC lays off 120 technology staff in Hong Kong in cost-cutting plan
- Why jobs cut by banks in Singapore in 2016 are unlikely to return
- A big Dutch bank is replacing 5,800 people with machines, at a cost of $2 billion
- Job-Sterben bei Schweizer Banken
- Swiss Banking: Das Paradox des Jobsterbens
Die eingangs erwähnte Studie nennt die Bereiche mit den größten Jobverlusten:
Worldwide, front line and back office jobs are most often being lost. IT jobs follow but these losses are only half as prevalent as the previous two. Highly qualified jobs are also being cut in Denmark, Finland, Greece, Spain, and UK as well as in Venezuela and Ghana. Legal and compliance jobs are being cut in Ireland, Spain and Venezuela. They are being created in The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, The United Kingdom, Iceland and Sweden.