UBS to Cut Between 3,000 and 5,000 Jobs

UBS is a name that we have talked about before, but if you missed out on our other coverage of cuts by the company lets begin by talking about how the company has chosen to describe themselves, “UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. We combine our wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses with our Swiss operations to deliver superior financial solutions. Headquartered in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS has offices in more than 50 countries, including all major financial centers, and employs approximately 63,520 people. Under Swiss company law, UBS is organized as an Aktiengesellschaft, a corporation that has issued shares of common stock to investors. UBS AG is the parent company of the UBS Group (Group).”

Sadly the company is getting ready to make some serious job cuts. How serious? Well according to the current information the company is going to getting ready to cut back on between 3,000 and 5,000 workers in order to put its balance sheet to the place where they want it to be. For now the company has not laid out too much in the way of details when it comes to the exacts of who will be cut and who will stay in their jobs. Nor have they given out any word about what kind of severance, if any, the company will be giving to the soon to be displaced workers.

This is, of course, no the only time that the company has cut back on jobs in the last couple of weeks, “Sadly the company is getting ready to cut back on about 400 workers in a bid to make the company more profitable, by reducing the expenses associated with keeping people on the payrolls. This sizable cut will come primarily from the front office workers in the region.”