{"id":32201,"date":"2026-07-23T09:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32201"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:08:33","slug":"centrica-to-axe-1300-jobs-as-restructuring-continues-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=32201","title":{"rendered":"Centrica to axe 1,300 jobs as restructuring continues \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/British-Gas.png\" alt=\"British Gas\" class=\"wp-image-7910 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/British-Gas.png\" alt=\"British Gas\" class=\"wp-image-7910 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/British-Gas.png 760w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/British-Gas-600x352.png 600w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/British-Gas-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>British Gas is seeing changes in consumer behaviour<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">British Gas\u00a0owner\u00a0Centrica\u00a0is cutting 1,300 jobs over the next two years as it overhauls its customer service and support teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The energy provider said a further 800 jobs would go on top of 500 role cuts announced last month. This will see a 14% reduction in the company\u2019s customer operations workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Centrica said it is a response to structural changes in customer behaviour, with customer contact falling sharply as about 90% choose digital methods of support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The company continues to heavily invest in nuclear energy projects such as the Sizewell C nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It reported an 18% drop in adjusted core profit for the six months to 30 June, mainly due to the impact of Spirit Energy asset disposals and production outages, with unfavourable weather and weak market conditions pressuring margins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The board has declared an interim dividend is 2p per share.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.6.0) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Centrica #axe #jobs #restructuring #continues #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Gas is seeing changes &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[7278,18768,266,17306,3841,265,522,8326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}