NDTV to Cut Workforce By Upto 25% for ‘Internal Restructuring’

Media house NDTV said it is considering reduction in the workforce by up to 25 per cent (Photo Courtesy: YouTube)

Media house NDTV said it is considering a reduction in the workforce of upto 25 percent as part of internal restructuring exercise to focus on its core business.

Given our re-prioritisation, our workforce has to be altered too – over next month, we are considering reduction of workforce by up to 25 percent. We thank these departing employees for their hard work and contribution.

NDTV in a regulatory filing

NDTV said it had initiated a turnaround plan to bring down costs and improve profitability.

"A part of this plan was implemented in the last quarter and included our much-noted move to new technologies, including mobile journalism," it added.

NDTV said the strategy it is adopting "calls for a leaner operation which will feed only our core business: our English and Hindi news channels and NDTV Convergence and its digital teams that run news and other app websites".

"This means minimising all ancillary businesses that NDTV has expanded into over the last few years," it added.

NDTV has also been exiting from non-core business verticals. In September, its shareholders had approved the sale of its automobile e-commerce firm Fifth Gear Ventures to Autobyte Pvt Ltd. It owned and operated automobile e-commerce portal carandbike.com.

In June, they had approved the sale of its Indian wear e-commerce firm NDTV Ethnic Retail Ltd to Nameh Hotels & Resorts Pvt Ltd.

For the quarter ended 30 June 2017, NDTV reported a net loss of Rs 22.01 crore as against a net loss of Rs 44.55 crore in the year-ago period.

Shares of NDTV were trading 1.10 percent higher at Rs 46 on BSE.

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