SEATTLE -- Boeing plans to make staffing cuts in the aerospace company's finance and human resources departments in 2023, with a loss of around 2,000 jobs, the company said.
"While no one has been notified of job loss, we will continue to share information transparently to allow people to plan," Boeing said in a statement Monday.
The company, which recently relocated its headquarters to Arlington, Va., said Boeing expects to "significantly grow" its overall workforce this year.
"We grew Boeing's workforce by 15,000 last year and plan to hire another 10,000 employees this year with a focus on engineering and manufacturing," the statement said.
Boeing's total workforce was 156,000 employees as of Dec. 31, the company said.
The Seattle Times reported Boeing, which has been one of the largest private employers in Washington state, plans to outsource about a third of the eliminated positions to Tata Consulting Services in Bengaluru, India.
Mike Friedman, a senior director of communications, said other positions will be eliminated as the company makes reductions in finance and human resources support services.
"Over time, some of our corporate functions have grown quite large. And with that growth tends to come bureaucracy or disparate systems that are inefficient," Friedman said. "So we're streamlining."
The Seattle Times reported about 1,500 of the company's approximately 5,800 finance positions will be cut, with up to 400 more job cuts in human resources, which is about 15% of the department's total staff.
FILE - A motorcyclist cruises past the Renton, Wash., Boeing plant where 737's are built on Oct. 28, 2020. Boeing plans to make staffing cuts in the aerospace company's finance and human resources support services departments in 2023, with a loss of around 2,000 jobs, the company said Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times via AP, File)