It's the constant yin-yang of MBA types running companies. They proclaim some modernization effort or another will let them downsize the expensive employees (or

It's the constant yin-yang of MBA types running companies. They proclaim some modernization effort or another will let them downsize the expensive employees (or they just do a layoff to bump the stock price). Then when the project fails to deliver, the sales pipeline dries up, projects stop getting done, etc they'll announce a hiring spree with great fanfare. Look at me, I'm a great CEO and leader! I'm going to re-hire the X positions we laid off or eliminated over the past 5 years under my prior leadership to solve the problems I created! In the UK BT is a captive utility so shuffling the deck chairs is as good as doing real work I guess.