Asda email which sacked 475 staff this week published - see leaked letter in full

The quality was delivered to unit successful an email from Asda president Stuart Rose and committee subordinate Rob Hattrell, which was aboriginal published successful afloat aft it was leaked to the media

Asda announced that 475 roles would beryllium axed this week and the quality was delivered to unit successful an email.

The supermarket chain said the determination would interaction caput bureau unit and not retail unit astatine Asda branches crossed the UK. Workers were besides told they request to instrumentality to the bureau for a minimum of 3 days a week starting successful January. The alteration volition impact astir 5,000 radical moving astatine the Asda House and Britannia House sites successful Leeds and the George House tract successful Leicester.

A spokesperson from Asda said, "This attack brings america successful enactment with our competitors" to "build high-performing teams with a collaborative culture." The quality was delivered to unit successful an email from Asda president Stuart Rose and committee subordinate Rob Hattrell, which was aboriginal published successful afloat aft it was leaked to the media.

The email opened by noting that the supermarket concatenation had seen "much change" implicit the past 3 years with the rollout of its tiny convenience stores, Asda Express, and the instauration of its loyalty scheme, Asda Rewards, and its "Future Programme". This sees the supermarket overhaul the full IT strategy it utilized nether its erstwhile proprietor Walmart.

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However, Rose and Hattrell said aft reviewing the group's advancement implicit the past 2 months Asda needed to "ensure that the concern is champion placed to conscionable our longer-term ambitions."

The email said: "We person rightly taken the determination to put successful our stores, absorption connected improved availability, enhanced lawsuit experience, alongside a stronger commercialized plan. We indispensable present present a much flexible and fast-moving Home Office operation to enactment those priorities and enactment america firmly backmost successful the work of our customers.

"As portion of this process, we are redefining roles and accountabilities to region duplication and simplify structures. We request colleagues to beryllium much empowered successful their determination making arsenic we present for customers. Additionally, we privation you to person much fulfilling roles and consciousness supported successful your vocation development."

To "drive these priorities, the email said Asda was delivering "fewer bigger roles, wide accountabilities and ownership, simplified ways of working, utilizing caller technology, and effectual processes and cross-functional interaction points." However, Rose and Hattrell confirmed this meant unit were going to person to permission the business".

The email read: "Sadly, arsenic a result, immoderate colleagues volition beryllium leaving the concern this week, whilst others volition beryllium considering caller roles and responsibilities. Change is ne'er casual and is unsettling, but the Executive Team judge it is indispensable to participate 2025 successful a stronger position, afloat focused connected serving our customers, delivering our ambitions and driving semipermanent growth. We privation to spot connected grounds our acknowledgment to each those colleagues who are leaving america this week, arsenic good arsenic those remaining arsenic we determination forwards."