- T-Mobile confirmed new layoffs in its IT organization, the latest in a series of cuts stretching back through last year
- The carrier laid off hundreds of workers in Washington State alone
- CEO Srini Gopalan took the reins in November, and the operator acquired UScellular's wireless operations for $4.3 billion last year
T-Mobile is swinging the layoff axe — again. The company confirmed that it's "eliminating some roles" in its IT organization this month, the latest in a series of layoffs.
T-Mobile said in a statement to Fierce that it's "further aligning our IT organization to support future growth and innovation. This includes the difficult decision of eliminating some roles while continuing to invest and hire in areas that will drive breakthrough products and services for customers. We are providing robust support to impacted employees as they transition."
Fierce previously reported T-Mobile laid off 363 people in Washington state in February, with the number of layoffs in that month now listed as 446 positions on the Washington State Employment Security Department Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) database this week. The WARN database listed 532 layoffs in that state in August. T-Mobile had 75,000 employees as of Dec. 31.
The February cuts hit project managers, account care coaches and engineers, senior systems architecture engineers, senior business systems analysts and senior technical project managers.
And T-Mobile quietly did a series of layoffs late last year, just prior to the holidays.
The past months have seen big changes at T-Mobile. In addition to the layoffs, it named a new head — Srini Gopalan replaced Mike Sievert as T-Mobile CEO Nov. 1. Gopalan was previously COO and headed the company's Technology, Consumer and Business Groups.
T-Mobile closed its $4.3 billion acquisition of UScellular's wireless operations in August, including more than 4 million UScellular customers and about 30% of its spectrum.