{"id":12006,"date":"2025-12-28T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/a-bleak-year-for-jobs-in-the-telecom-sector-in-europe-and-the-us\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:53:12","slug":"a-bleak-year-for-jobs-in-the-telecom-sector-in-europe-and-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/a-bleak-year-for-jobs-in-the-telecom-sector-in-europe-and-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"A bleak year for jobs in the telecom sector in Europe and the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article__media\"> <picture class=\"article__media\">  <\/picture> <noscript>  <\/noscript><figcaption class=\"article__legend\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Technicians from Deutsche Telekom repair an active 5G antenna in Nuremberg, Germany, on January 21, 2025.  <span class=\"article__credit\" aria-hidden=\"true\">DANIEL KARMANN\/DPA\/PICTURE-ALLIANCE\/MAXPPP<\/span>  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph  \">The axe fell three days before Christmas. On Monday, December 22, Telefonica approved a sweeping redundancy plan affecting 5,500 jobs. For employees, these cuts \u2013 which represent one fifth of the historic Spanish operator&#8217;s workforce \u2013 were a further blow, as the group had already eliminated 3,400 positions in 2024. Its goal is to save nearly \u20ac600 million per year starting in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>             &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/economy\/article\/2025\/12\/28\/2025-a-bleak-year-for-jobs-in-the-telecom-sector-in-europe-and-the-us_6748898_19.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technicians from Deutsche Telekom repair an active 5G antenna in Nuremberg, Germany, on January 21, 2025. DANIEL KARMANN\/DPA\/PICTURE-ALLIANCE\/MAXPPP The axe fell three&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}