{"id":296091,"date":"2025-11-20T19:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296091\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:44:08","slug":"bce-lays-off-almost-700-staff-as-part-of-new-growth-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296091\/","title":{"rendered":"BCE lays off almost 700 staff as part of new growth strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BCE Inc. is laying off nearly 700 non-unionized employees, including 650 management positions across Bell Canada and 40 roles in Bell Media.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

BCE Inc. BCE-T<\/a> is laying off nearly 700 non-unionized employees as part of its three-year strategy to reduce leverage and focus on growth areas, the latest in a series of telecom-sector cuts.<\/p>\n

The cuts include approximately 650 management positions across Bell Canada, representing about 2 per cent of its total workforce, and 40 roles in Bell Media, representing 1 per cent of Bell Media employees, the telecom and media company said in a statement Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Bell Media cuts are \u201cpredominantly\u201d in corporate departments, the company said, as opposed to on-air talent. <\/p>\n

The company said it is continuing to invest in its strategic priority areas to grow the business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe regularly assess and make changes to our team structure. As a result, we made the difficult but necessary decision to reduce the number of non-unionized management positions across the company to better align our team structure with our growth plan,\u201d said BCE spokesperson Luc Levasseur in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know this is difficult for those who are impacted and we are supporting each person affected,\u201d Mr. Levasseur said. \u201cWe thank all departing employees for their dedication and contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: BCE Inc. is laying off nearly 700 non-unionized employees, including 650 management positions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,43,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,41,39,42,40,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-296091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-headlines","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}