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