The UK employees are no way near as well compensated as say their USA, Middle Eastern and European colleagues but they are some of the most expensive to make redundant and therein lies the problem. Undoubtedly there has to be cuts in the UK but it's going to hurt Avaya's bank balance plus there are a number of factors to consider:
The UK organisation is an old workforce and been around a long time. All the young folks knew Avaya sucked so left pretty quickly after being promised the world. The many years of service all add up to big payouts.
Folks that are selected for redundancy will lawyer up very quickly and that will hurt Avaya.
Avaya UK's and Dubai HR teams are incompetent beyond belief and never fail to sc--w things up which ends up costing Avaya big money.
Many of the UK deals in the subscription era are dodgy as he-l and the smart folks have kept receipts especially for the " bulk deals ".
The UK VP is a clown of epic proportions and screws up pretty much everything he touches and can't help himself when it comes to giving margin, APS and hardware away in the hope of accelerating revenue and again there are plenty of receipts being kept for when he starts actioning his personal grudges and getting rid of the folks he doesn't like.
The fun really starts when it gets to UK redundancies !!!!