T-Mobile lays off 393 in WA as it ensures 'right focus'
Published in Business News
T-Mobile will lay off hundreds of Washington-based employees in April, according to a recent state filing.
The Bellevue, Washington-based wireless network operator plans to permanently eliminate the jobs of 393 workers at its headquarters and other offices, per a worker adjustment and retraining notification received Monday.
The layoffs, set to take place April 2, are due to changing business needs," T-Mobile senior director Monica Frohock wrote in the WARN notice.
"As the next step in our evolution, we’re making some changes while continuing to hire to ensure we have the right focus, structure and momentum to keep changing the industry through innovation and a long-standing focus on customers," a T-Mobile spokesperson said in a statement Monday.
Affected locations include Bellevue, Bellingham, Bothell, Spokane Valley, Woodinville, Snoqualmie and East Wenatchee. Various remote workers will also be impacted.
Frohock said those offices will not be shuttered, and the layoffs aren't prompted by relocation or contracting out operations.
Among the cut positions are 21 systems architecture senior engineers, 17 business systems senior analysts, 11 account care coaches and 11 technical senior project managers.
The telecommunications giant touted "record customer growth" in its latest quarterly earnings released in October, with total revenues jumping 9% in the third quarter of fiscal 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.
However, its net income of $2.7 billion was 11% down from $3.1 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2024.
In September, the company announced that Chief Operating Officer Srini Gopalan was set to replace CEO Mike Sievert on Nov. 1.
Rumors of T-Mobile layoffs in other states, which have yet to be confirmed, spread across Reddit last month. Several former employees have since taken to social media to look for work.
"Well, change came knocking this week," former account executive Sam Voyles, of the Kansas City area, wrote on LinkedIn two weeks ago. "My role at T-Mobile was eliminated along with many others.
However, the company is still actively seeking to fill more than 1,000 positions, including 72 in Washington, on its website.
Seattle has been overwhelmed with job cuts since the start of the year, with Amazon eliminating 2,198 positions in the Seattle area last week. Meta laid off 331 workers in the Puget Sound region last month and Expedia Group announced its plans to lay off 162 Washington employees in April.
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