Mitel, NTT Initiate Pre-Holiday Layoffs
A number of high-ranking Mitel workers lost their jobs just before the holidays prompted by the company’s new partnership with RingCentral.
On LinkedIn, Richard Fry, national channel manager, announced his departure from Mitel just before Thanksgiving. Earl Stevenson soon after announced his departure. He was head of Mitel’s network operations center (NOC) and global incident management.
Both cited the RingCentral partnership as the reason for the layoffs.
Last month, RingCentral announced its strategic partnership with Mitel. The partnership will provide Mitel’s global customer base with a migration path to RingCentral’s Message Video Phone (MVP). That’s RingCentral’s cloud phone system.
Stevenson described the layoffs as “devastating.”
In addition, layoffs are impacting 151 NTT workers in North Carolina. The layoffs started Dec. 6.
Among the eliminated NTT positions are purchasing agents, inside client specialists, inside client managers, and credit and collections coordinators.
