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T-Mobile laying off 5,000 employees (thehill.com)
submitted 2 years ago by L4s to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That’s only 7% of their workforce!? That means this was a company of like 70,000 people. Just… how!?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Corporate offices and brick and mortar stores probably make up the two biggest chunks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People who maintain the physical network probably make up a big chunk.