BT Group logo with white lettering on the glass front of its global headquarters in Aldgate, east London.
BT’s workforce has fallen to 90,000, excluding staff in its international business. Photograph: BT Group/PA
BT’s workforce has fallen to 90,000, excluding staff in its international business. Photograph: BT Group/PA
BT cuts almost 8,000 jobs amid sweeping cost-saving programme

Telecoms group reports £1.1bn pre-tax profit in six months to end of September and share price touches five-year high

BT has cut almost 8,000 jobs from its workforce since the end of March, as it pushes ahead with sweeping cost cuts across the business.