Unilever enforces global hiring pause due to 'significant challenges' amid Middle East conflict

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Global consumer goods giant Unilever

is enforcing an immediate hiring pause as the firm tackles “significant challenges” amid the Middle East conflict.

Unilever, the parent company of brands like Dove, Axe, Comfort and Hellman’s, said its hiring freeze will affect staff across all levels and will last at least three months, according to a memo seen by Reuters and sent to staff last week. The Reuters report was published on Monday.

“Macro economic and geopolitical realities, especially in the Middle ​East conflict... bring some significant challenges for the coming few months,” Fabian Garcia, president of Unilever’s personal care unit, said in the memo.