{"id":975810,"date":"2025-11-22T08:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975810"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:54:08","slug":"verizon-to-layoff-13000-employees-as-us-telco-reorients-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/22\/verizon-to-layoff-13000-employees-as-us-telco-reorients-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon to layoff 13,000 employees as US telco &#8216;reorients&#8217; business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: US telecom carrier Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees, as part of a reorientation strategy brought by its new chief executive, Dan Schulman, the Associated Press reported early on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Citing a staff memo from Schulman, the news agency said the job cuts began on Thursday. He reportedly said that Verizon&#8217;s current cost structure &#8220;limits&#8221; the company&#8217;s ability to invest, pointing particularly to customer experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: US telecom carrier Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees, as part of a reorientation strategy brought by its new chief executive, Dan Schulman, the Associated Press reported early on Friday. Citing a staff memo from Schulman, the news agency said the job cuts began on Thursday. He reportedly said that Verizon&#8217;s current cost structure &#8220;limits&#8221; the company&#8217;s ability to invest, pointing particularly to customer experiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}