Asda cuts 200 jobs following botched IT upgrade
Asda has axed hundreds of jobs connected to its botched £800m IT upgrade.
Asda has axed hundreds of jobs connected to its botched £800m IT upgrade.
More than 200 employees have been sacked without consultation in the latest round of job cuts from the supermarket chain, The Telegraph reported.
It comes as the retailer has spent much of the past year busy untangling thousands of programmes responsible for its checkouts, administration and payroll from those of former owner Walmart.
Asda had hired hundreds of workers to carry out the changeover, dubbed Project Future, which has been fraught with setbacks and delays including a botched update that led to thousands of the supermarket’s employees being paid incorrectly.
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The supermarket escaped a penalty charge last month after it failed to meet the original deadline set by Walmart to separate its IT systems. It is understood the pair have agreed to extend the deadline.
The latest job cuts mark the second round of redundancies in five months under new chairman Allan Leighton.
He sacked 13 regional managers as part of an internal restructuring in January following Asda’s worst Christmas trading performance since 2015.
Prior to that, Asda made 500 staff redundant without a consultation period last November.
The supermarket came under fire earlier this month when employees revealed they only found out that Leighton had scrapped 10,000 staff bonuses when the news broke in the media.
Asda has been contacted for comment.
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