{"id":22756,"date":"2018-11-22T06:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22756"},"modified":"2018-11-22T06:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T06:22:20","slug":"ikea-will-lay-off-7500-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22756","title":{"rendered":"Ikea will lay off 7,500 employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Ikea is reorganizing its global business to reach more urban customers and people who don&#8217;t want to shop in its massive warehouses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Ingka Group, which owns and operates most Ikea stores, said Wednesday it is cutting its global workforce by 5% and shifting toward smaller stores and more online shopping. The company will lay off about 7,500 employees.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We recognise that the retail landscape is transforming at a scale and pace we&#8217;ve never seen before,&#8221; CEO of Ingka Group Jesper Brodin said in a statement. &#8220;As customer behaviours change rapidly, we are investing and developing our business to meet their needs in better and newer ways.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Ikea is reorganizing its global business to reach more urban customers and people who don&#8217;t want to shop in its massive warehouses.Ingka Group, which owns and operates most Ikea stores, said Wednesday it is cutting its global workforce by 5% and shifting toward smaller stores and more online shopping. The company will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}