A significant round of layoffs is happening at the Bellevue headquarters of T-Mobile USA just ahead of its merger with MetroPCS, according to people inside the company.
Employees are expecting the cuts, which may affect more than 100 people in marketing and other groups, to happen Thursday, when conference rooms at the company are reserved for “integration” meetings.
T-Mobile declined to comment.
T-Mobile has been steadily reducing the size of its workforce in recent years through restructuring and consolidation of its call centers, but it largely has spared the Bellevue headquarters, where the highest-paid jobs are located. Last year more than 4,200 jobs were cut, including 3,300 at call centers and a later round of 900 across the company, but the company expected to add at least that many as it built up its business sales group. Last year it employed about 36,000 people nationally and 4,800 locally.
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via Big layoffs at T-Mobile headquarters, ahead of merger | Brier Dudley’s blog | Seattle Times.
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