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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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

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