{"id":356349,"date":"2020-06-09T11:43:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T06:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356349"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T06:13:07","slug":"bp-to-cut-10000-jobs-worldwide-amid-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bp-to-cut-10000-jobs-worldwide-amid-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"BP to cut 10,000 jobs worldwide amid coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Energy producer BP announced Monday that it will slash its global workforce by 10,000 jobs as the COVID-19 pandemic slams the oilNSE 0.42 % and gas industry.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Bernard Looney said that the cuts will affect office-based roles in BP&#8217;s global workforce of 70,000 people and come mostly this year. The changes are expected to significantly affect senior levels, cutting the number of group leaders by a third.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are protecting the frontline of the company and, as always, prioritizing safe and reliable operations,&#8221; Looney said after a call with his staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Energy producer BP announced Monday that it will slash its global workforce by 10,000 jobs as the COVID-19 pandemic slams the oilNSE 0.42 % and gas industry. Chief Executive Bernard Looney said that the cuts will affect office-based roles in BP&#8217;s global workforce of 70,000 people and come mostly this year. The changes are expected to significantly affect senior levels, cutting the number of group leaders by a third. &#8220;We are protecting the frontline of the company and, as always, prioritizing safe and reliable operations,&#8221; Looney said after a call with his staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}