Feel like you’ve been scrooged? DK redundancies

Is it really likely that DK will now be able to persuade better-quality individuals to join the firm? It might be struggling to retain the ones that are left.

Dresdner’s unseasonal redundancies could have long-term repercussions.

Investment banking is a tough business. So few tears will be shed for any banker that is made redundant – even if it is just before Christmas.

But both employers and employees make an unwritten pact on performance, contribution and pay. So being fired just ahead of expected bonuses during a record earnings year for the industry as a whole must be a bitter pill to swallow for those recently let go from Dresdner Kleinwort.

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