In the article in the Financial Times Deutschland, SBS’s head of outsourcing Christian Oecking said that it was streamlining the way it provided services, but did not stipulate how many sites would be closed.
Earlier this month, Computer Business Review reported that acquisition talks between Atos Origin and Siemens had stalled because the French company wanted SBS to cut another 1,000 jobs before it would take it on. SBS has already slashed 5,400 jobs in the last 12 months, and sold off its hardware support division known as Siemens Product Related Services, which had 5,000 employees, to PC assembler Fujitsu Siemens for an undisclosed sum.
