Finally the mainstream media is coming out with numbers of job cuts in Dubai.
Gulf News reports:
- WS Atkins, a leading British engineering consultancy firm working on Burj Al Arab, have laid off 170 professionals.
- Dubai Labour Supply Company (Dulsco) has laid off 800 workers in two batches.
- Mizin, a real estate development company under Tatweer have also allegedly made 50 people redundant.
- Universal Studios in Dubailand have also let go of as many as 50
- In November master-developer, Nakheel, was the first to shed its human resources, getting rid of 500 people.
- Developer Damac then announced it had let 200 people go, Omniyat 69 Tameer 180 and Better Homes made 50 people redundant.
- Around 35 people had also been sacked from WSP and 15 from the Burj Dubai project at Hyder Consulting. Al Shafar General Contracting also shed nearly 1,000 staff members.
The figure comes to around 3,200. However, I believe actual numbers will be at least 3 times more than this and we will be hearing more of this in future.