By Angela Green, Content Executive, H&C News: McDonald’s CEO announces more openings and fewer people.
McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski has written to more than 200,000 of its workers to warn of potential job cuts in a looming reorganisation that will also see openings of new restaurants accelerate.
Kempczinski wrote saying McDonald’s was being hurt by an “outdated and self-limiting” structure, but did not expand to say how. The letter read: “We are trying to solve the same problems multiple times, aren’t always sharing ideas.” It then went on to say that corporate staffing levels would be reviewed in April.
McDonald’s employs about 200,000 people across its owned restaurant portfolio and in corporate roles, 75% of them are located outside of the US.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the McDonald’s CEO said he did not have a fixed goal for the number of job losses. He then went on to say the fast food giant wants to accelerate the opening of new restaurants.
McDonald’s operates in more than 160 counties around the world, and has long been at the forefront in using technology. As people and skills shortages in hospitality continues to be experienced all over the world, more technology would seem to be close to McDonald’s reorganisation horizon.