Keystone-SDA cuts further jobs
The Keystone-SDA news agency is implementing further cost-cutting measures in response to the difficult economic situation in the media market. Nine full-time positions will be eliminated by late summer 2019. All divisions of the company are affected, with the exception of the editorial department.
The economic pressure in the media houses and among customers has further consequences for Keystone-SDA. By late summer 2019, the multimedia news agency will have to cut a total of nine full-time positions at its sites in Zurich and Bern.
Twelve employees are expected to be affected. The reductions will affect the Marketing & Sales, Solutions, Content and Administration departments. In the event of redundancies, the social plan negotiated last year will be applied voluntarily. The editorial department is not affected by the cutbacks.
Following the merger between SDA and Keystone, the new company is in the process of further transforming itself and positioning itself on the market as a multimedia news agency. Last year, against the backdrop of the media crisis, the company had cut 35 of its 150 full-time jobs, mainly in the editorial department.
The Syndicom union criticized the company management for leading the agency into a downsizing spiral. Since the strike in 2018, the attitude of the management has not changed. It is fueling uncertainty and undermining trust.
"While savings are being made at the bottom, top management continues to bloat," the communiqué says. The internal processes would endanger the functioning of the agency. The hallmarks of quality and reliability are being put at risk by the management. The agency must break out of the downsizing spiral, "otherwise it will slowly do away with itself. (SDA)
