Dixons targets smaller office workforce

Dixons and Currys owner DSG International said today it planned to cut back on office-based posts as part of a drive for savings of around £20m (€29m).

The company, which employs more than 40,000 people in the UK and Europe, said it would look to achieve the reduction in its back-office headcount through normal staff turnover, rather than redundancies. A newspaper report today put the number of jobs involved at 1,000.