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Dyson is laying off about 1,000 workers amid 'fierce and competitive global markets'

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Founder James Dyson at the opening of a Dyson store in Berlin in October 2023. Sebastian Reuter/Getty Images
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Dyson is cutting about 1,000 jobs in the UK in a move that may affect about a quarter of its workforce.

The British appliance maker, which is now headquartered in Singapore, told staff about the layoffs on Tuesday.

The cuts are part of a wider reduction to its global workforce of more than 15,000 people, The Financial Times reported citing unnamed sources.

Dyson CEO Hanno Kirner said in a statement that the company had expanded quickly but operated in "increasingly fierce and competitive global markets" and needed to become "entrepreneurial and agile."

The company, which makes vacuum cleaners and hair dryers as well as a range of other devices, previously laid off 900 workers in 2020, The Guardian reported at the time. Then-CEO Roland Krüger blamed those cuts on the pandemic.

Dyson posted record revenues of £7.1 billion ($9.1 billion) last year, up from £6.5 billion in 2022.

The company was founded in 1991 by James Dyson, who is in 109th place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a net worth of $19.2 billion.

He paid a record $54 million for a three-story penthouse atop Singapore's tallest building in July 2019 — the same year he relocated Dyson's headquarters there.

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Jyoti Mann
Jyoti Mann
Jyoti Mann is a former senior reporter for BI who covered tech companies, including OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.Jyoti holds a master's degree in investigative journalism and was previously reporting on the companies desk at the Financial Times. She spent more than three years working as a hedge fund consultant carrying out investigative research. She has previously written for the Financial Times and The Times. Sample of stories: Amazon's full RTO is off to a bumpy start. Some staff complain of a lack of space and theft. And they're still on video chats.Internal Meta memo tells managers how performance-based job cuts will workStripe accidentally sent an image of a duck when notifying some employees they were getting laid offKlarna tells employees it will start drug testing workers in Sweden