Exactly 5,000 jobs were hacked out from its worldwide labor force of 84,000 last year in a bid to "rearrange and reshape the business", it said.
About a fourth of the cuts have occurred in the UK, the BBC comprehends.
A Barclays representative said the bank was supporting impacted workers with preparing and guidance, depending where staff were based.
A representative for the English financial monster affirmed to the BBC that it rolled out the improvements to "further develop administration and convey more significant yields".
Most representatives impacted worked in administrative center help groups, "as the executives layers are diminished and the gathering works on its innovation and mechanization capacities", they said.
Barclays said the cuts were important for its arrangements to further develop productivity, which it said were declared in its second from last quarter brings about October last year.
Notwithstanding, the absolute number of cuts is a lot higher than the 900 UK occupations recently detailed.
It denotes the most recent move toward its reserve funds program, which has proactively seen positions go across its retail and venture banking organizations.
It has likewise declared almost 200 branch terminations as of late, saying just 10% of exchanges were presently occurring eye to eye.
The bank detailed pre-charge benefits for the three months to September of £1.9bn, somewhat better than examiners' estimates, however down from £2bn a year prior.
The most recent declaration, which is believed to be among the greatest reserve funds practices did at Barclays since the 2008 monetary emergency, will increment strain on the loan specialist in front of its entire year results for 2023 being distributed one month from now.
The decrease in headcount has been conceivable because of redundancies, as well as opening that poor person been filled during an employing freeze