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   News Analysis Iain Morris, International Editor   
      
   Employees had only just made it back through the revolving doors of   
   the post-pandemic office facility before they were sent spinning   
   outside once again, this time clutching the standard-issue cardboard   
   boxes for those laid off. After adding thousands of employees in the   
   last few years, Big Tech has spotted a downturn and begun hacking into   
   its workforce to preserve margins and keep investors smiling. Yet Big   
   Telecom has been at job cuts for much longer.   
      
   Just look at AT&T and Verizon. Back in 2015, when pandemics were   
   confined to sci-fi movies and history, the US operators were able to   
   count 459,150 people across their combined operations at the end of   
   the year. By the end of 2021, 138,150 net roles had vanished. The sale   
   of data centers and media assets removed thousands of jobs from the   
   books, with others sacrificed in the relentless pursuit of efficiency.   
      
   https://www.lightreading.com/aiautomation/atandt-and-verizon-cut   
   9400-jobs-last-quarter/d/d-id/782876   
      
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