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    Proximus plans to cut thousands of jobs as AI drive reshapes telecom giant

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    2. Marcel_The_Blank on

      1200 less jobs, of which 800 already planned retirements. that’s still a lot of people losing their job to AI. almost 10% of the people working there.

      more importantly: that’s 1200 (+350 from Telenet) jobs that will no longer be available to unemployed people.

      AI is starting to challenge the job market.

    8. According-Pass-1770 on

      Which ones do you think will be impacted? Customer service, shops, admin, back office, engineers, etc?

    9. gdvs on

      I don’t know if it’s just me, but every time I hear AI, I think “low cost, bad quality”. I don’t know why you would want to admit that, even if it were true. It’s like putting “not handmade” on a piece of furniture.

    11. lvl_60 on

      Ze gebruiken nu al AI voor modemresets ed🤣🤣

      En in de winkel smeren ze onwetende klanten bullshit aan zoals “je kan enkel een gsm kopen als je de accesoires box ook koopt.”

    12. Thecatstoppedateboli on

      AI is just a simple excuse or magical solutions for some managers but in the end it will downgrade service and still not solve shitty technicians, countless mistakes made nor solving problems arising from using inferior technology like bboxes.

      Proximus is lucky that they are not owned by an American company like Telenet, a company completely imploding and probably vanishing.

    15. NobodyHistorical9469 on

      €400M in profit btw

      > The strategy comes despite solid top-line performance. Last year, Proximus reported revenues of more than €6.6bn, up 1.2% year on year. However, net profit fell by 11% to €398m. Bijnens said the results were in line with expectations.

    16. Happy_Bread_1 on

      Ik blijf het zeggen. Als er niet naar een kortere werkweek gedwongen wordt, loopt dit niet goed af met veel werklozen ten gevolg.

    17. tetten on

      I work for Proximus and we won’t feel this at all. Honestly at least 1200 people aren’t doing anything here 😉 Especially the people near retirement age, they still have the RTT ambtenaar mindset. There are always at every time of the day old people sitting in the cafetaria or they are “away/offline” on teams. For entire days rofl, but they can’t be fired because the are statutair

    19. keremimo on

      Actual Indians drive! Didn’t they attempt this once before?

      Also, smh they cannot even line fiber properly to the tiny country of Belgium properly yet they want to reduce jobs. Fucking corporate mindset.

    20. Poof-Employment9758 on

      Time to boycot!

      IT jobs are disappearing left and right, together with that **Ursula** just signed an agreement with India to make it super easy for millions on Indians to come here (all over EU) and undercut us on domestic IT jobs too.

      This is 100% lobbied by big corporations to further drive down the IT market and salary scales.

    23. Kh0ran on

      AI is really good for two things: accelerate the wealth accumulation by the already wealthy (you cut 1200 jobs, where do you think the added values goes ? Not in us paying less that’s for sure) and weapon/surveillance system, which directly or indirectly will protect the same people and used against us.

      Sounds a bit tin foil hat I know but that’s the black mirror shit we are in