More job cuts
Soon they will have to put out the “office space for rent” signs. If InBev is going to push ahead with further restructuring programmes at its glitzy and spanking new Leuven headquarters, they might have to start looking around for new tenants. Having already outsourced the IT department, InBev announced in October that an “effectiveness study” of structures and processes in its global headquarters recommends further job reductions. In best management speak, “the proposed organization aims to create clear responsibilities and to eliminate overlapping or duplicated processes and activities across functions, as well as across Zones and GHQ, taking into account the right match of employee profiles with the new organizational requirements..