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New BT chief Philip Jansen has pushed ahead
with a major restructuring begun by predecessor Gavin Patterson,
as the firm looks to move on from an accounting scandal and
battles multiple pressures on its business.
The shake-up, including 13,000 job cuts, was announced in May
last year and aims to tackle problems ranging from criticism of
BT's fiber broadband to an underperforming IT services business.
"Today, BT revealed the first eight of the locations that will
house its workplaces of the future as part of a
three-to-five-year program initially announced in May 2018 to
improve and consolidate its workplaces across the UK," the
company said.
Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Ipswich (Adastral
Park), London and Manchester would be key locations for the
group, BT said in a statement.
BT, which employs over 100,000 employees, gave no indication of
the impact of the moves on jobs but called the program the
"largest of its type" in the UK.
Patterson spent billions of pounds on sports rights, network
investment and customer service improvements, but was pushed out
of the role last year after a revolt by investors disappointed
in the results.
(Reporting by Justin George Varghese in Bengaluru; editing by
Patrick Graham)
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