Around 90 staff at telecoms giant BT could be made redundant at its Riverside Tower office in Belfast, it has emerged.
They will be cut from the 2,000 people who work there within the wider BT Group, which includes EE, BT Business and Openreach.
A BT Group spokesperson said: “Today, we shared proposals with a small number of colleagues in Belfast to transfer some of the work they do to other BT office locations.
“We are discussions with anyone affected by our proposals and, if we go ahead, we have shared other opportunities in the wider Belfast office.”
The statement added: “There is no impact to customers.”
The spokesperson added that Belfast remains “a strategic location” for BT Group and the company will continue to invest in the region.
In 2023 BT - which employs more than 3,400 people across its wider Northern Ireland operations - completed a multi-million-pound refurbishment of its flagship Riverside Tower office in Belfast.
At the time the company said the move “would support local economic growth and employment opportunities”.
In November BT Group announced an additional 2,000 job cuts as part of its ongoing cost-cutting plan while revising its annual sales forecast.
For the six months ended September, it reported a 10% drop in pre-tax profits to £967 million while revenues dropped 3% to £10.1 billion, due to what it said was a “competitive retail environment”.
The company also revealed adjusted EBITDA rose 1% to £4.1 billion, but profits before tax dropped 10% to £1 billion due to lower revenue, higher specific costs and increased finance expenses, despite reduced operating costs.
BT Group previously said it aimed to downsize its workforce to between 75,000 and 90,000 employees by 2030.
It revealed in November that it had reduced staff numbers by 2,000, or 4% year-on-year, bringing total headcount down to 118,000, and achieved £433 million in cost savings in the first half of the year.
