Aviva plays the numbers game

WE all face into an uncertain future.

The 2,000 people employed in Ireland by the British-based insurance giant Aviva know this only too well. This group, spread across Ireland, has been kept on tenterhooks since the spring, as doubts about the future of hundreds of jobs at the company began to emerge.

In May, concern about the future of about 200 positions was first aired. The company, however, kept silent on the matter, apart from confirming that it was carrying out a review of the organisation.