Hachette Learning: UK Education Market Challenges & Restructuring

Hachette Learning faces UK education market funding issues, leading to potential redundancies and a shift to a global, digitally-enabled focus. Restructuring aims to ensure future stability.

Hachette Learning Announces Potential Redundancies

She said: “I am contacting you to inform you that some colleagues across our teams were told today that their roles may go to danger of redundancy, and we are currently in an assessment duration with these people.”

CEO Seshni Jacobs informed all Hachette Learning staff of suggested staff adjustments in an e-mail shared with The Bookseller by Hachette Understanding’s Communications Group, with permission from the business’s management.

Strategic Shift to Global Digital Focus

She proceeded: “The recommended modifications to our framework– as tough as they are– are required to protect us for the future and resolve the lack of funding in the UK education market. We have to search for optimal methods to accelerate our shift from a UK-centric publisher to an extra around the world concentrated, digitally made it possible for instructional services company.”

Jacobs laid out the “very difficult couple of years” faced by UK education and learning publishers, and claimed: “As a leadership group, we have actually needed to reply to these basic shifts in the UK education and learning sector, and to recommend some hard however required modifications to our service structure to reflect the reality of the market we’re now in.”

An undisclosed variety of roles at Hachette Understanding are at danger of redundancy in the department as a result of “continuous obstacles in the education and learning market”. Those in jeopardy of redundancy were educated on Wednesday fifth November, and are now in consultation with the business.