The shuttering of regional U.S. field offices appears to be related to the chain’s Accelerating the Arches 2.0 initiative, which includes restructuring to increase McDonald’s efficiency. That program has necessitated job cuts, ahead of which McDonald’s sent home its corporate staff earlier this week.
A source familiar with the matter said the job cuts would total in the hundreds. McDonald’s job cuts appear to be impacting longtime employees: Tim Andersen, a VP with the company with more than 42 years at McDonald’s, posted on his personal LinkedIn profile that he’d been forced to retire three years ahead of schedule.
