Gazprom will reduce head office staff by almost half

Gazprom representative Kupriyanov confirmed the authenticity of the document to Forbes but declined to comment further.

In the letter, Ilyukhina reported a multiple increase in the size of Gazprom’s management over the past 20 years. According to their information, the salary fund of administration employees amounted to 50 billion rubles a year.

According to Ilyukhina, “the challenges facing the Gazprom group” include reducing decision-making time, eliminating duplicate functions among employees and excessive bureaucratic processes. These same challenges determine “cost optimization at all levels of management and production processes.”

According to Gazprom’s report last year, in 2023 the company became unprofitable for the first time in the last 25 years, losing 629 billion rubles, while a year earlier the company’s profit amounted to 1.23 trillion rubles. rubles. The first nine months of 2024 were also unprofitable for the company: losses amounted to 309 billion rubles. The most important reasons for Gazprom’s financial losses were the disruption of Nord Stream and a multiple reduction in gas exports, notes 47 News.

To reduce Gazprom’s central apparatus, the deputy chairman of the security board, Sergei Khomyakov, and the board’s chief of staff, Irina Milyutina, must, by February 15, “conduct an audit of the tasks, functions, number and structure of each of the administrative divisions,” says Ilyukhina’s letter. According to the results of the audit, Khomyakov and Milutina will have to submit to Alexey Miller “proposals for the release of personnel, as well as the transfer of personnel to other divisions and subsidiaries.”