{"id":11529,"date":"2025-09-10T05:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/11529\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:31:06","slug":"wegovy-maker-novo-nordisk-to-cut-around-9000-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/11529\/","title":{"rendered":"Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk to cut around 9,000 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Shelby Knowles | Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk on Wednesday announced plans to cut roughly 9,000 roles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Novo Nordisk today announced a company-wide transformation to simplify its organisation, improve the speed of decision-making, and reallocate resources towards the company&#8217;s growth opportunities in diabetes and obesity,&#8221; the company, which produces the Wegovy weight loss medication, said in a statement,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As part of the transformation, Novo Nordisk intends to reduce the global workforce by approximately 9,000 of the 78,400 positions in the company, with around 5,000 reductions expected in Denmark.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025. Shelby Knowles | Bloomberg |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[11548,122,103,397,2690,396,61,60,2689],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-breaking-news-europe","tag-business-news","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-care-industry","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}