Just Eat cuts 1,700 delivery jobs as takeaway demand slows

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Just Eat cuts 1,700 delivery jobs as takeaway demand slows

Just Eat has had to slash 1,700 delivery driver jobs and 170 head office positions after the service has seen a slow down in takeaway demand.

The food delivery group, whose rivals include Deliveroo and Uber Eats, said the group was looking to improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Just Eat, which has 15,000 employees globally, said it will look to redeploy impacted staff colleagues to other roles internally. Delivery couriers have been given six weeks notice with pay.

As a result of the shake up, Just Eat said that it was moving back to an entirely gig worker model in Britain, meaning that it will no longer employ drivers directly and instead will work on a freelance basis.

Just Eat UK is reorganizing and simplifying its delivery operation as part of its ongoing goal of improving efficiency, according to a Just Eat spokeswoman.

As part of this process, we have proposed to move away from the worker model for couriers which is a small part of our delivery operations in certain parts of six UK cities. There will not be a change to the service provided to partners and customers.

Our top priority is to support impacted employees and couriers. We are hugely grateful to our talented colleagues and couriers who have been part of the worker model in the UK. It follows a move by rival Deliveroo who has had to slash 350 job roles across the UK and Ireland due to the economic downturn which has deterred customers from slashing out on takeaway.

The couple join a string of other companies that have had to cut job positions in order to survive the challenging economic outlook.

This includes Facebook owner Meta, and Amazon, which just yesterday announced it was looking to cut 9,000 job positions in the world.