“We expect about 2,000 reductions this year primarily in Finance and HR through a combination of attrition and layoffs,” Boeing noted earlier this month.

One-third of the 2,000 jobs will be outsourced to Bengaluru, India, while the remaining jobs will be eliminated as Boeing looks to cut down its finance and HR support services, Boeing spokesman Mike Friedman said.

“Over time, some of our corporate functions have grown quite large. And with that growth tends to come bureaucracy or disparate systems that are inefficient,” Friedman said. “So we’re streamlining.”

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