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Sunrise job cuts could affect up to 450 positions across Switzerland
Swiss telecom company Sunrise is reviewing how it operates and could cut up to 450 full-time jobs.
The company has about 2,900 full-time positions.
Its headquarters is in Opfikon, near Zurich, where about 1,750 people work.
Some headquarters staff fear the cuts could fall mainly on them, including workers in IT, marketing and controlling.
Sunrise says job losses could affect several locations in Switzerland, and it has not ruled out any areas from the review.
Shop, sales and customer service staff, as well as workers directly involved in providing services, are largely excluded, while trainees are fully excluded.
Sunrise says it is reviewing its processes and outside factors such as supplier contracts to prepare for changes in the market, technology and customer needs.
Sunrise’s planned job cuts could eliminate up to 450 full-time positions across Switzerland.
The company says the cuts could affect staff at several locations, not only its headquarters in Opfikon.
Employees at the headquarters fear they could bear most of the reductions, according to the SonntagsZeitung.
Sunrise says it is reviewing its operating model in response to market and technology changes.
Shop, sales and customer-service staff, as well as employees directly involved in operations, are largely excluded from possible cuts, while apprentices are fully excluded.
- Who
- Sunrise and employees who could be affected by the planned cuts.
- What
- Up to 450 full-time positions could be eliminated as Sunrise reviews its operating model.
- When
- The review was announced in September; the article was published on October 11, 2026.
- Where
- Across Switzerland, with employees at Sunrise’s headquarters in Opfikon particularly concerned.
- Why
- Sunrise says it needs to adapt to market and technology developments and remain competitive.
Sunrise headquarters employees
Sunrise
Potential concentration of cuts
Sunrise headquarters employees
Employees fear the cuts could fall mostly on the roughly 1,750 people at headquarters.
Sunrise
The cuts could affect staff at several locations in Switzerland, not only the headquarters.
The planned job cuts do not relate only to the headquarters, but could lead to personnel effects at various locations in Switzerland.
The necessity to adapt the operating model and to make possible job cuts results from the emerging market and technology developments, and the company must align itself with this development in the coming years.
Sunrise announced a review of its operating model that could lead to the loss of up to 450 full-time positions.
cash.ch reported that employees at Sunrise’s headquarters feared they could be heavily affected by the cuts.
- Possible job cuts
- Up to 450 full-time positions
- Sunrise workforce
- Around 2,900 full-time positions across the company
- Headquarters workforce
- Around 1,750 employees in Opfikon
- Potential headquarters impact
- The SonntagsZeitung said a quarter of the headquarters workforce could lose their jobs if cuts fell mainly there
- Excluded groups
- Apprentices are fully excluded; shop, sales and customer-service staff and employees directly involved in operations are largely excluded
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