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Atlanta-based Coca-Cola announced it will cut 500 Atlanta jobs due to financial struggles amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. (Kimberly Johnson/Patch)
ATLANTA, GA Coca-Cola is cutting 2,200 jobs globally including 500 in metro Atlanta as part of a major global restructuring, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Atlanta-based soda company announced Thursday that of those 2,200 jobs, 1,200 of them will be among the company s U.S. workforce of 10,400 people. This news comes almost four months after Coca-Cola announced a sweeping business reorganization, which included voluntary and involuntary employee separations, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
In late August, Coca-Cola offered an enhanced benefits package to about 4,000 employees who worked for corporate or Coca-Cola North America in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico who were hired on or before Sept. 1, 2017, the Chronicle reported. The company would not disclose the number of employees