T-Mobile laying off 5,000 employees::T-Mobile plans to lay off close to 5,000 employees, about 7 percent of its workforce, by the end of September, the company’s president and CEO said in an email to employees Thursday. The layoffs will primarily affect corporate, back-office and technology roles, while retail and other customer-facing roles “will not be impacted,” Mike Sievert, T-Mobile’s…
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Sievert noted that the impacted positions are “primarily duplicative to other roles”
Congratulations to the poor bastards who’s work load just got doubled or more.
In a 2019 hearing scrutinizing the merger, Legere told the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology that after combining with Sprint, T-Mobile would have thousands more employees than the stand-alone firms combined in its first year.
“By 2024 we will have 11,000 more employees,” Legere said, according to a transcript of the hearing.
“Our critics are wrong about the impact on jobs,” Legere added, responding to a skeptical analysis from the Communications Workers of America labor union. “I have looked at their arguments and supposed analyses and they do not make sense. They ignore the facts. They don’t account for any areas where jobs will grow, like network integration or new customer call care centers.”
https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/t-mobile-job-cuts-sprint-merger-dcdcf73d
The network integration is done now. No more need for those guys.
NoBoDy WaNtS To WoRk!
That’s only 7% of their workforce!? That means this was a company of like 70,000 people. Just… how!?
This article is only about the branch “T-Mobile US” but not mentioning it. And yes according to Wikipedia there are about 70,000 employees. The parent company is listed with about 210,000 employees.
Corporate offices and brick and mortar stores probably make up the two biggest chunks.
People who maintain the physical network probably make up a big chunk.
