{"id":981855,"date":"2025-12-24T07:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981855"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:36:47","slug":"telefonica-to-shed-around-5500-jobs-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/telefonica-to-shed-around-5500-jobs-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Telefonica to shed around 5,500 jobs in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid: Telefonica will cut up to 5,500 jobs in Spain under a voluntary departure plan agreed with trade unions last week, the debt-laden telecoms firm said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The figure represents nearly a quarter of the company&#8217;s workforce in Spain, based on a Telefonica count given last year of 25,000 employees in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, Telefonica employs 100,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, it announced last month a new, five-year strategic plan that will see it focus on its main markets of Spain, Germany, the UK and Brazil as well as restructure many of its operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madrid: Telefonica will cut up to 5,500 jobs in Spain under a voluntary departure plan agreed with trade unions last week, the debt-laden telecoms firm said in a statement on Monday. The figure represents nearly a quarter of the company&#8217;s workforce in Spain, based on a Telefonica count given last year of 25,000 employees in the country. Worldwide, Telefonica employs 100,000 people. Last month, it announced last month a new, five-year strategic plan that will see it focus on its main markets of Spain, Germany, the UK and Brazil as well as restructure many of its operations.<\/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-981855","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\/981855","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=981855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}