Blundering Aviva sacks staff

for the future.” Within minutes bosses realised what had happened and 25 minutes later the e-mail was recalled.
A second e-mail was sent to all staff apologising for the mistake.
Aviva Investors is the investment arm of Aviva insurers and has an office in London.
The e-mail was a standard message sent to people leaving the company, covering things such as handing back company equipment and confidentiality rules.
A spokesman said the message did not tell people that they were fired.
Aviva is the world’s sixth-largest insurance group and the investment arm manages assets of more than £262 billion.
It said in January it would shed around 160 jobs, about 12 percent of its global workforce.
Aviva Investors spokesman Paul Lockstone said: “An e-mail which was intended for a member of staff who was leaving today was accidentally sent to all Aviva Investors staff worldwide,” Lockstone said.
“People were pretty quickly aware of the fact that this was a mistake . . . I don’t believe any of our staff would have seen it really as anything other than the mistake that it was.”
Mr Lockstone said he did not know why the intended recipient of the e-mail was leaving the company. — Daily Mail.