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Good afternoon and wellcome to Hessenschau Kompakt
The staff is shocked
The IT service provider Atos closes it's office in Frankfurt
The reason, drop in Orders
300 employees in Niederrad are concerned.
For them it's unbelievable!
In Frankfurt Niederrad Hahnstr. 25 an exeptional mood rules.
"As if someone pulls the rug out from under my feet!
I couldn't imagine something like this to happen."
"Simply incredible what's happening here"
"I am 57 years old and it's obvious that I have no chance on the job market.
Especially not in my job.
That means that my existing future plans have lost their foundation."
"After that I felt anger and real rage"
Anyways, the company - only recently the worldwide IT-Partner of the Olympic Games -
sees no chance to keep the ofice in Frankfurt alive. They state:
"The necessity to close this office is a consequence of local overcapacities
basically caused by ending customer contracts, changed market requests
and particularly changes in customer segments ...
In spite of intensive effords and a development program
the at this facility bundled competences cannot be offered competitively."
The Works Council confirms that 10% of the employees are not fully utilized.
In a company which takes over other companies and their employees
this is assumend to be normal.
But Atos wants to close the office, therefore there's a need to negotiate.
"First we will request to meet in an open reconcilement of interests,
to avert this closing.
Should this not be possible we'll look for a collective labour agreement;
in any case there must be a social plan."
Supposedly the employees should continue to work until 30.09,
then lights will be switched off.
Next monday (17.03) the employees want to demonstrate
against the closure after an employees meeting.