The T-Mobile / Sprint merger hasn’t created jobs — it’s cut thousands - The Verge
T-Mobile confirmed additional layoffs within its engineering and network operations teams, T-Mobile promised to stay "jobs-positive" after merging with Sprint, but by the end of 2021, it was already down 5,000 employees.
The Wall Street Journal reports T-Mobile’s engineering and network operations teams are experiencing waves of layoffs, which have included managers and executives, on top of thousands of jobs eliminated by restructuring after the company merged with Sprint in 2020. T-Mobile execs promised then that the merger was “all about creating new, high-quality, high-paying jobs, and the new T-Mobile will be jobs-positive from Day One and every day thereafter.”
In April 2020, the companies had about 80,000 workers combined; however, as the Journal points out, T-Mobile’s most recent annual report (pdf) said it ended 2021 with 75,000 full- and part-time employees.
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As of December 31, 2021, we employed approximately 75,000 full-time and part-time employees, including network, retail, administrative and customer support functions.
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