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T-Mobile is reducing the number of its employees; about seven percent of its workforce will lose their jobs in the coming weeks. To be more precise, the American wireless network operator will lay off 5,000 staff, and this was announced on Thursday, Aug. 24.
T-Mobile will be terminating some roles within the span of five weeks. The corporate unit and back-office jobs are revealed to be the most affected by this move.
As per CNN Business, the company is getting rid of roles that are “primarily duplicative” to other job posts. In a letter addressed to the employees, T-Mobile’s chief executive officer, Mike Sievert, said the management will cut its middle management layers.
The group is also planning to lessen its spending on “external workers and resources.” T-Mobile assured workers who are stationed directly at its retail and consumer care units that they are not affected by the layoff.
“What it takes to attract and retain customers is materially more expensive than it was just a few quarters ago,” the CEO stated in the letter. “It is clear that doing everything we are doing and just doing it faster is not enough to deliver on these changing customer expectations going forward. Today’s changes are all about getting us efficiently focused on a finite set of winning strategies.”
Sievert added that the job terminations are a big change and an unusual one for T-Mobile, and “because of this, we do not envision making additional large-scale reductions across the company again in the foreseeable future.”
Associated Press News reported that this layoff announcement comes after major companies in the United States also imposed mass job cuts in the past year. A lot of major firms in the country, such as Microsoft, Google, and Meta, have all reduced their workforce, leaving thousands of people without jobs.
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