Aviva Investors 'mistakenly' sacks 1,300 employees

Aviva Investors sent an e-mail by mistake on Friday dismissing its entire staff before retracting the message, according to reports.

The e-mail, which was sent by Aviva Investors' human resources department to 1,300 employees globally, was really intended for just one recipient. It told employees to turn over company property as they left the building and reminded them of their obligation to guard the firm's confidential information. A spokesman for the group told Bloomberg: "It was intended that this e-mail should have gone to one single person. Unfortunately, as a result of a clerical error, it was sent to all of the Investors' staff worldwide. From time to time, things go wrong." The human resources departmen...