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Arcadis announces further job cuts

The engineering and consultancy firm is simplifying its organisation and taking further cost measures, but the current scale of the new round has not yet been made public.

Arcadis is working on a new reorganisation as the company presents its strategy for 2027 to 2029. Public company information confirms further staff reductions and efficiency measures, but does not independently confirm the figure of approximately 1,000 jobs mentioned in the new headline.

Arcadis will present its strategy for 2027-2029 on Tuesday during a Capital Markets Day in Amsterdam. The company wants to focus more strongly on growth markets, simplify its organisation and organise services more through standardised, international teams.

That course is accompanied by further cost measures. In its 2026 half-year results, Arcadis had already reported that €25 million in non-operational costs had been incurred in the second quarter, mainly for restructuring and addressing activities with low utilisation rates.

At the same time, the company reported organic revenue growth of 2.2 per cent and order intake of €1.1 billion in the second quarter. The order book reached €4 billion at the end of the first half of the year. According to Arcadis, growth is mainly in water infrastructure, the energy transition, data centres and certain mobility projects.

The reorganisation is therefore not solely a response to a lack of work. The company is trying to shift staff and investment from weaker activities to markets where it expects greater demand. In its 2025 results, Arcadis cited, among other things, property and investment projects in Canada and China as weak areas.

Arcadis reported in February that it had reduced 1,100 positions worldwide in 2025, including 600 in the fourth quarter. According to the figures published at the time, the measures were intended to increase utilisation rates, shift resources to growth areas and reduce overheads.

The consequences for the Netherlands cannot be established on the basis of the public information. It was previously reported that no reorganisation had been needed in the Netherlands in 2025, while job losses mainly occurred outside the Netherlands. The new strategy may change that picture, but the company has not yet published the current distribution of the announced reduction.

Arcadis’s forthcoming quarterly figures and further explanation should clarify whether the job cuts mainly affect administrative roles, regional activities or specific market segments. It is also not yet known how many positions will disappear through redundancies and how many through natural attrition or vacancies not being filled.

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