Ørsted has had a rough time of it of late, political headwinds in the US, a rights issue and now it says it will be reducing its organisation by 2,000 employees towards the end of 2027.  

“Today, we’ve told our employees that from now and until the end of 2027, we’ll be saying goodbye to many skilled and valued colleagues who’ve contributed greatly to Ørsted. However, this is a necessary consequence of our decision to focus our business and the fact that we’ll be finalising our large construction portfolio in the coming years, which is why we’ll need fewer employees. At the same time, we want to create a more efficient and flexible organisation and a more competitive Ørsted, ready to bid on new value-accretive offshore wind projects,” said Rasmus Errboe, CEO of Ørsted.

Ørsted currently employs around 8,000 people globally, but by the end of 2027, we expect to have a workforce of around 6,000 employees. The ‘rightsizing’ of the organisation will happen through natural attrition, a reduction of positions, divestment, outsourcing, and redundancies. As part of this, Ørsted has announced that it will be making 500 employees redundant in Q4 2025.

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