Nordic online gambling operator Kindred Group is trimming its workforce but insists it’s nothing to do with the COVID-19 pandemic eating into its business.

On Friday, the Times of Malta quoted a Kindred spokesperson saying the company planned to make around 75 employees redundant. The cuts will reportedly be distributed among the company’s 13 global offices in Europe, Australia and the United States.

The spokesperson said the company hadn’t publicly revealed the number of staff in each office that are facing the axe but did say the formal consultation process on the layoffs would start later this month.

The spokesperson said the decision to cut payroll was “very tough and painful” and such measures “will always be a last resort.” The spokesperson further acknowledged that this was already “a challenging time” and pledged that the company would do “all we can to support impacted individuals as much as possible through this period.”