Verizon’s Workforce Cut, Avaya’s New Services Highlight the Weekly Wrap
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“These changes are well-planned and anticipated, and they will be seamless to our customers,” said Hans Vestberg, Verizon’s CEO.
Chris Shelton, CWA president, wrote letters expressing job-loss and national-security concerns.
This summer, instead of enjoying vacations, many IT and telecom professionals likely are out job hunting in the aftermath of layoffs.
Vonage is laying off less than 5 percent of its workforce while hiring for other positions.
Windstream’s latest job cuts follow a detailed review of overall functions at EarthLink as part of integration planning to identify redundancies in positions and leveraging existing workgroups.
The Windstream job cuts are in various workgroups, including engineering, finance and information technology.
Microsoft, Verizon, CenturyLink, Level 3, Sprint, Dell, EMC and HP were among the big names in telecom and IT to announce layoffs in 2016.
Up to 3,000 employees, most in the U.S., will be let go in the Dell-EMC merger.
While no one will ever celebrate job cuts, the company’s partners will be comfortable knowing that Microsoft’s attention continues to home in more closely on what they sell.
Highlights from the #CPEvolution keynote stage include @ATTPartners @jldelozier3 @andimann @channelsmart dlvr.it/RDWXkL
September 20 2019 @ 14:22:02 UTC
#TopGun51 honors @ken_mccray007, who transformed the @McAfee channel organization one milestone at a time.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
September 20 2019 @ 12:03:03 UTC
We talked to @TBImasteragent and @arnoldjon about where #CPaaS fits in the cloud communications space. dlvr.it/RDTNPz
September 20 2019 @ 00:02:32 UTC
.@PolyCompany launchesDECT-baseded #mobile IP phone systems and expands #DaaS in North America. #CPEvolution dlvr.it/RDT8wk
September 19 2019 @ 22:20:31 UTC
.@IntelisysCorp gives @entvisions a major honor. dlvr.it/RDSkkJ
September 19 2019 @ 19:53:02 UTC
.@CenturyLink CEO talks strategy post-Level 3 integration. #SDWAN dlvr.it/RDSWKK
September 19 2019 @ 18:39:02 UTC
.@GraniteTelecom announces $1.5 billion in annualized revenues. #voiceservices dlvr.it/RDPH6J
September 19 2019 @ 00:02:02 UTC
.@Cisco teased several #ContactCenter updates at its summit this week. dlvr.it/RDPFkr
September 18 2019 @ 23:46:03 UTC
