LONDON, Nov 14 (Reuters) - British bank Barclays said on Thursday it was cutting 1,700 jobs in its UK network asautomation increases across its branches.
The bank said technological changes would enable it toprovide better service for customers with fewer staff.
"Today we have outlined a voluntary redundancy scheme forthose colleagues who are interested," the company said in astatement.
The Unite union said Barclays informed its workforce onThursday that it would cut 1,700 frontline roles from its branchnetwork.
"Cashiers, personal bankers, operational specialists, branchmanagers and assistant manager roles will be cut throughout2014," Unite said in a statement.