T-Mobile lays off dozens of WA workers, closes stores
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Bellevue-based T-Mobile plans to lay off 77 Washington-based employees and shutter half a dozen stores, per a recent state filing. The telecommunications giant will conduct the layoffs between Sept. 21 and Nov. 18, according to a worker adjustment and retraining notification received Wednesday by the Washington Employment Security Department. The job cuts are due to "changing business needs," Monica Frohock, senior director of the Magenta Service Center, wrote in the notice. T-Mobile didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The company is majority-owned by Deutsche Telekom, a German telecommunications company. It reported "meaningful progress" in its latest quarterly earnings, CEO Srini Gopalan said in July. The company reported $23 billion in total quarterly revenues, a jump of 8% from the same period last year. These aren't the only job cuts initiated by T-Mobile this year. The wireless network operator laid off hundreds of Washington-based employees in April. In Wednesday's filing, six stores and one office in Washington are marked to close: locations in Seattle, Bellingham, Bothell, Vancouver, Kennewick, Tacoma and Yakima. Workers at a Bellingham call center and the Bellevue headquarters, along with several remote employees, will also be swept up in the layoffs. Those facilities will remain open. Mobile experts, principal architects and senior analysts are...
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