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ING closes Cluj regional centre and fires 185

Autor: Laurentiu Cotu

23.03.2011, 23:50 24

The ING group is preparing to close the services centre in Clujopened just six months ago, for which 185 people had been recruitedso far. The decision is surprising considering that at thebeginning of this year, the management of ING Service Center Europeannounced that it intended to hire over 400 people in 2011, afteraround 185 had been recruited last year.

Moreover, officials of the Cluj centre said at the beginningof the year that they would continue with the original plans, withING Service Center set to have around 1,000 employees by the end of2013. The decision to suspend operations in Cluj comes after achange in strategy of the insurance division, which scrapped plansto centralise operations in favour of making services moreflexible.

"Now more than ever, we need to direct all our efforts towardsanswering our clients' needs. This objective is best attainedlocally, in each country. ING decided to shut down operations ofthe regional services centre in Cluj-Napoca, but the decision doesnot in any way impact ING clients or their contracts," said DavidKnibbe, CEO of ING Insurance Central and Rest of Europe (CRE).

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