Yet even the number of employees at "continuing operations" has fallen by 3,000 over this period, a drop that left AT&T with just 169,900 employees at the end of September. And numbers out today show that headcount subsequently plummeted by 7,000 in the final three months of 2022. This means about 4% of jobs at AT&T disappeared over this period.
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