XLSMART Affirms No Employee Reduction

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JAKARTA - PT XLSMART Telecom Sejahtera Tbk or XLSMART (EXCL) emphasized that in this merger process, the company is committed to safeguarding the interests of all employees.

Director & Chief Human Resources Officer Jeremiah Ratadhi said that in this merger process, the company holds two main principles, namely the first, the principle of lift and shift, which means that all employees of the two companies will be accepted and become part of XLSMART.

Second, the principle of no loss policy, namely that all policies related to compensation and benefits for employees will be maintained without reduction.

"Everything will remain the same. It will not decrease from the 2 principles, I said earlier that people are allaws post assets value assets and we want to make this XLSMART in 2027 is the best place," he said at a press conference, Thursday, April 17.

He also added that there are currently no plans to rationalize it. However, if in the future this needs to be done, the company will stick to the principle that employees are the main assets that must be maintained and respected.

On the same occasion, XLSmart Director & Chief Commercial Officer, David Arcelus Oses, said that the company would not rebrand or change its business identity completely after the merger.

He said that changes were only made to the name, logo, and management structure of the company. David explained that XLSmart still represents each business entity that joins, namely XL, Axis, and Smartfren.

In the future, he said the company will serve customers in multi-brand format, according to the characteristics and strengths of each brand that has joined.

David also added that this multi-brand strategy is nothing new for the company because a similar approach was implemented when XL merged with Axis in 2016, where the company continued to serve two customer segments separately.

"So, we will have three brands, XL, Axis, and Smartfren, each brand focuses clearly on the customer segment. From that focus, then different value propositions will come, different strategies for each brand," said David.