{"id":995704,"date":"2026-03-02T07:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995704"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T02:29:11","slug":"proximus-to-cut-1200-jobs-by-2030-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/02\/proximus-to-cut-1200-jobs-by-2030-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Proximus to cut 1,200 jobs by 2030: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian telecom operator Proximus said on Friday it would cut jobs as \u200cpart of \u2060an AI-driven effort \u2060to reduce costs, as a halving of its annual dividend pushed its shares towards their worst trading day ever. <\/p>\n<p>Proximus will cut 1,200 jobs by 2030 due to AI-related efficiency measures, equivalent to 15% of its workforce, CEO Stijn Bijnens said during a presentation to investors on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>It will also look to reduce its external workforce costs by 25 million euros by 2028, as part of a broader 180 \u2060million euro efficiency \u200cprogram driven mainly by workforce savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgian telecom operator Proximus said on Friday it would cut jobs as \u200cpart of \u2060an AI-driven effort \u2060to reduce costs, as a halving of its annual dividend pushed its shares towards their worst trading day ever. Proximus will cut 1,200 jobs by 2030 due to AI-related efficiency measures, equivalent to 15% of its workforce, CEO Stijn Bijnens said during a presentation to investors on Friday. It will also look to reduce its external workforce costs by 25 million euros by 2028, as part of a broader 180 \u2060million euro efficiency \u200cprogram driven mainly by workforce savings.<\/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-995704","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\/995704","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=995704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}