Virgin Media O2 to cut more than a tenth of UK jobs

Mobile relation Virgin Media O2 is to slash up to 2,000 UK jobs, oregon 12% of its full workforce, by the extremity of this year.

The fig includes 800 relation reductions that were already announced, the BBC understands.

A institution spokesperson acknowledged that immoderate play of alteration "can beryllium difficult".

It comes aft its rivals BT and Vodafone some announced successful May that they were besides cutting jobs.

A Virgin Media O2 spokesperson said: "As we proceed to integrate and alteration arsenic a company, we are presently consulting connected proposals to simplify our operating exemplary to amended present for customers, which volition spot a simplification successful immoderate roles this year."

The spokesperson said the steadfast was supporting its unit arsenic it has "open and honorable conversations" astir its future.

The company, which is British, came unneurotic successful 2021 done a merger betwixt mobile relation O2 and broadband elephantine Virgin Media.

Earlier this year, BT, which is the UK's largest broadband and mobile provider, said it would shed up to 55,000 jobs by the extremity of the decade, mostly successful the UK, arsenic it cuts costs.

Up to a 5th of those jobs volition beryllium replaced by technologies including artificial intelligence, the steadfast said.

The determination came soon aft Vodafone said it would axe a tenth of its unit implicit the adjacent 3 years, equating to 11,000 jobs.

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