Less than 24 hrs after Virgin Media announced they would be shedding a 2000+ jobs. BT have announced further 10,000 job cuts with contractors out the door first.
I say further because anyone who follows BT will be aware that they have already reduced their global workforce by 1/3rd, down from nearly 250,000 in 2006. In October 2007 a representative of the Now Connect Union, which represents BT middle management, suggested that only the generosity of the voluntary redundancy packages avoided a strike. Unfortunately the result of that generousity is that some highly experienced engineers and network designers took the deal and left BT Global Services, the division now pulling BTs numbers down.
A BT insider recently said to me "...it's like 2001 again, lots of people in the office looking busy; waiting for the storm to hit!"
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