Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) is planning to decrease its workforce currently at 100,000 people down to some 50 thousand by 2025.

When asked to comment on these reductions, UAC president Alexey Fedorov said: "As of this time UAC member enterprises employ about 100,000 people. Our target is to have some fifty thousand people by 2025. This means almost twice the reduction. With that, the volume of sales should rise approximately five times. The key issue here is to increase the usage of our workforce. In plain words, one person should produce as much as ten times more than now. That commands a considerable increase in productivity".

But UAC is not going to close down any of its plants. Rather, some of them will be narrowly specialized. "Specialization of the plants means narrow focusing on certain type of production: making particular components or particular subassemblies, materials machining, etc.", Fedorov explained. "We are also using outsourcing mechanism by taking a particular working operation and placing it with another company which is a narrow specialist in the given area". In some cases particular work will go outside of the United Aircraft Corporation’s structure to a particular specialist, he added.