Allegro to conduct group layoffs

Poland’s biggest online auction site Allegro plans to lay off 90 employees and transfer another 80 to outsourcing units, reports Wirtualnemedia.pl. Allegro will also move almost 70 employees from central units to business segments in order to make them more involved in key business activities. “The reorganization in necessary if we want to think about success in the future,” said Przemysław Budkowski from the Allegro group. “We want to be able to efficiently develop products and services that our customers expect in a dynamically changing, mobile world.” The company has already notified the local labor office about the plan. It has also started talks with employee representatives about the details of the procedure. Allegro did not provide direct reasons for the decision. However, the group recently shut down two of its units, Citeam.pl, focus on group purchases, and accommodation search site Lokalo.pl. According to media reports it may also be selling business news site Bankier.pl and social networking unit Wykop.pl.