Mercury cuts jobs

Title

Mercury cuts jobs

Genre

Interview

TX Date

5 Dec 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:01:11

Description

Telephone operator Mercury is to cut a quarter of its workforce over the next 12 months through voluntary redundancies and scrap its public phone boxes to remain competitive. Chief Executive of Mercury Communications, Duncan Lewis says it was not an easy decision to make but a necessary one. Interviewer not heard.

Contributors

Duncan Lewis

Keywords

Telecommunications industry; Telecommunications personnel; Organizational change; Redundancies; Competitiveness (business); Mercury Communications

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