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    T-Mobile CEO Cutting More Jobs, Focusing on ‘Customer Delight’

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    Michelle Maisto
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    May 16, 2012
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      T-Mobile has more bad news for employees. After eliminating more than 1,900 positions in March to consolidate its call centers, CEO Philipp Humm has told employees that more cuts are imminent, as the carrier works to further align its costs with its €œrevenue realities.€

      According to reports, 900 jobs will be cut.

      Humm, in a memo to employees posted by The Verge May 15, offered a vague explanation of the €œsecond essential step€ in T-Mobile€™s rebuilding effort and tried for a sympathetic tone in explaining that T-Mobile will this week€”nicely, but as quickly as possible€”reveal which remaining employees will be getting the ax.

      €œI want to assure you we will move through the communications this week very thoughtfully, but also as quickly as we can while preserving the quality of the conversations that need to happen,€ wrote Humm. Irritatingly (surely not just to me) he added, €œAs always, our T-Mobile Values will guide our actions.€

      Customer service representatives still remaining in T-Mobile€™s 17 call centers, technicians in engineering and €œfrontline employees€ in corporate-owned T-Mobile stores, he added, needn€™t worry.

      The €œrebuilt structure€ will provide T-Mobile with needed cost savings to build out its Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network€”on May 8 it announced it had signed agreements with Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks, to get the project under way€”and pursue the B2B (business-to-business) segment, where T-Mobile plans to add 1,000 new positions in the next few years.

      The restructuring will also make the company more agile, wrote Humm, better able to €œput resources where the current opportunities are, grow in areas where potential is greatest, and act on emerging opportunities quickly and rationally.€

      It will also enable T-Mobile to pursue a more €œsustainable organization model,€ thanks to two particular areas of change that Humm touched on. The first is a €œgreater focus on driving Customer Delight€€”which, while sounding like something from a Friendly€™s menu, is more likely a company tenet. Or, at least, some frequently used, internal marketing speak. Regardless, it plans to accomplish the latter by €œshifting and consolidating groups in the field sales regions and the FSC to minimize redundant work€”resulting in more effective coordination and communication.€

      The second change€”resonating with a blog post that recently circled the Internet about a disillusioned and disgruntled former Microsoft employee who was critical of all the meetings and reports that Microsoft employees busy themselves with instead of difference-making work€”is a reduction in the number of direct reports that will be written, enabling faster decision making and the empowerment of more of more employees to take charge.

      There will be, wrote Humm, an €œevolution of our leadership model from player-coach, where more time is spent on daily tasks than on planning and guiding, to leader-coach, where time is focused more strategically on coaching, developing, delegating and motivating.€

      He added:

      “We approached the restructuring process and decisions with care, rigor and cross-functional alignment. A team comprised of top leaders, with support from industry-leading subject matter experts, worked closely together over the past few months to develop an effective and sustainable structure. We strongly believe the organizational principles we applied are lasting ones. More details on the new organizational structure will be shared in department and team communications this week and more broadly after that.“

      Michelle Maisto
      Michelle Maisto has been covering the enterprise mobility space for a decade, beginning with Knowledge Management, Field Force Automation and eCRM, and most recently as the editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine. She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and in her spare time obsesses about food. Her first book, The Gastronomy of Marriage, if forthcoming from Random House in September 2009.

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