{"id":15684,"date":"2018-05-10T23:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T23:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/?p=15684"},"modified":"2018-05-29T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:29:40","slug":"bt-cuts-13000-jobs-to-slash-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/?p=15684","title":{"rendered":"BT cuts 13,000 jobs to slash costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BT is to cut 13,000 jobs over three years, about 12% of its workforce. It said that the job cuts and other measures would help it to reduce costs by \u00a31.5bn.<\/p>\n<p>It added that it would be hiring about 6,000 employees to &#8220;support network deployment and customer service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A third of the job reductions will come from outside the UK in its Global Services division.<\/p>\n<p>It also said it intended to move out of its existing central London headquarters and into smaller premises.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you are considering a company merger, acquisition, takeover or joint venture or are in the midst of a shareholder dispute or share capital transaction or need business advice please contact us. Call 0161 624 6811 to speak to John Porter and Soibi Iketubosin in our Company\/Commercial Department or email <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"mailto:jap@wrigleyclaydon.com\">jap@wrigleyclaydon.com<\/a> or si@wrigleyclaydon.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT is to cut 13,000 jobs over three years, about 12% of its workforce. It said that the job cuts and other measures would help it to reduce costs by \u00a31.5bn. It added that it would be hiring about 6,000 employees to &#8220;support network deployment and customer service&#8221;. A third of the job reductions will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-employment","category-commercial","category-219","category-229","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrigleyclaydon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}