It came as shareholders in the company approved a pay package worth £10 million for boss Margherita Della Valle. Vodafone said its cost-saving initiatives had helped deliver the reduction in roles across Europe and in its shared operations in the three months to the end of June. It is understood that some of the reduction involved natural attrition, when people are not replaced after they leave the business. Across the group, Vodafone is targeting two billion euros (£1.71 billion) worth of cost savings between the 2027 and 2030 financial years, which it hopes will come from efforts to simplify the business and use more shared services. While 90.9% of votes were cast in favour of the new policy, about 9.1% were cast against.