Several thousand people wait on T-Mobile to offer jobs after mass layoffs

Layoffs: Survivor's Guilt and Fear of Being Next

Since being laid off in February, I’ve had a lot of conversations with others on both sides of layoffs. It’s really hard to be in the tech job market (or any job market in this economy) right now, with so many recent layoffs. As someone in the mix of it right now (and I haven’t been looking that earnestly yet, as I’ve been taking some time to regroup, heal from feelings through the process, and decide what my next steps are) I understand the men…

Several thousand people wait on T-Mobile to offer jobs after mass layoffs

Back in 2017, AT&T had 280,000 employees: at the start of 2025, these were down to 141,000. Verizon had fewer than 100,000 employees at the end of 2024 and slashed 32,600 jobs in the four years prior to that (but its annual revenues rose by $6.5 billion).