Verizon to eliminate almost 5,000 employees in nearly $2 billion cost-cutting move

https://fortune.com/2024/09/12/verizon-eliminate-5000-employees-2-billion-cost-cutting

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  1. Excerpts:

    *Verizon Communications Inc. will take a pre-tax charge of as much as $1.9 billion in the third quarter tied to 4,800 planned job cuts.*

    *[…] As part of other continuing restructuring initiatives, Verizon said it plans to cease use of some real estate assets and exit non-strategic portions of certain businesses. As a result, the company expects to record pre-tax charges of $230 million to $380 million in the third quarter.*

    *[…] The company is also exploring selling thousands of mobile-phone towers across the country to raise cash. A sale could bring in more than $3 billion, Bloomberg has reported.*

  2. As a Verizon stockholder I applaud this move. As a Verizon customer I deplore it. Capitalism is confusing.

    (I don’t actually own Verizon stock I just have the usual index funds. You get my point though, right? Like is it worth everything getting enshittified as long as my net worth goes up? I don’t know!)

  3. Voluntary leave. They aren’t rif’ing people. And they are getting a nice going away package for volunteering.

  4. fuck these mega-corps and the executives running them. some real sick, narcissistic fucking psychopaths.