The BBC is planning to make up to 2,000 job cuts in one of its most brutal cost-cutting efforts to date.
Rhodri Talfan Davies, the BBC’s interim director general, announced the redundancy proposals in an all-staff call on Wednesday afternoon local time.
He said between 1,800 and 2,000 roles will go over the next two years, with more details to come from September, meaning staff face an anxious wait to find out where the axe will fall.
The BBC will open a voluntary redundancy scheme to avoid compulsory layoffs, Talfan Davies told staff, according to Deadline sources.
The job cuts represent roughly one in 10 members of staff across the BBC’s license fee-funded and commercial operations. The BBC had 21,508 employees last year.
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Nuala McGovern, the BBC News presenter chairing the internal call with bosses, said the
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