- By Annie Green
- BBC Business reporter
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Sky is planning to cut about 1,000 jobs in the UK this 12 months, because the media group strikes towards extra internet-based companies.
It is known a big quantity can be engineers, as fewer folks require satellite tv for pc dishes to be put in at residence.
Sky at present employs about 26,000 folks in the UK.
The cuts introduced on Tuesday signify about 4% of its workforce.
The rise in digital merchandise on provide means many purchasers can now arrange new companies with none help.
A Sky spokesperson stated: “Increasingly, customers are choosing Sky Glass and Sky Stream which don’t require specialist installation, and that has led us to change the number of roles we need to deliver our services.”
Affected workers will now enter a session interval the place they’ll have their say on the proposals earlier than any ultimate selections are made.
Sky has been shifting its technique because it was purchased by the US media large Comcast for greater than £30bn in 2018.
It continues to be recruiting throughout the broader enterprise, with plans for 2,000 jobs at its new movie and TV studios in Elstree, Hertfordshire.
On Monday, Channel 4 introduced plans to cut 200 jobs, about 18% of its workforce, because it focuses on digital companies.
Chief government Alex Mahon stated the “reality” of the “rapid downshift” in the financial system and promoting prompted the change, because it targeted extra on its digital choices.
The British broadcaster desires digital revenues – which accounted for 27% of its whole final 12 months – to cross 50% by 2030.
