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Agencies looking for personnel to hire might just ring up SBC Communications, which, according to sources, will be laying off as much as 50 percent of its corporate advertising department.
The $28 billion telecom company, the largest in the U.S., recently merged with Ameritech, the Midwestern Baby Bell.
“As part of that merger, we’re looking at . . . how to organize and be most efficient and eliminate redundancies,” said spokesperson Larry Solomon, who declined to specify the number of employees affected.
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