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- There will be another 5,000 T-Mobile layoffs.
- That’s 7% of the company’s workforce, mostly from executive positions.
- T-Mobile said it would keep its pre-merger employee numbers when it acquired Sprint.
When T-Mobile acquired Sprint in 2020, the combined company had about 80,000 employees. One of the things T-Mo committed to when it was pleading to regulators to let it close the Sprint merger was that it would keep employee numbers at that level or higher forever.
“This merger is all about creating new, high-quality, high-paying jobs,” said John Legere, T-Mobile’s CEO at the time. “The New T-Mobile will be jobs-positive from Day One and every day thereafter.”