The internet? Just a fad, don’t worry. Your job doesn’t depend on it
Some rather blunt lessons for the staff at travel agents Thomsons with 800 jobs going, the day after P&O said it would cut 1200 jobs on cross channel ferries.
The reason in both cases: competition from internet-based rivals - travel sites that let you make your own holiday for Thomson,budget airlines for P&O.
I’m sure the staff feel really good at both companies that it’s not the executives losing their jobs, and that those non-job-losing execs also prepared so well for the internet’s effects, say by instituting (at P&O) a system like EasyJet’s for booking, or (at Thomson) self-service areas in the high street travel agencies. Bonuses all round.
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