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Originally Posted by CoryB
Part of the deal proposes to make Winnipeg the western headquarters for Bell MTS West. It is not known what impact this will have on office space. Separate from the existing MTS offices in downtown Winnipeg there is generally a lot of office space available for lease. It is thought that any increases in staff levels would not warrant the construction of a new office. If anything the new company might add additional leased space in an existing or already proposed building near the existing MTS campus.
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You can bet the farm on it that there will be significant decrease in staff downtown. This from the BCE CEO in the FP today:
Although Cope would not promise there would be no job losses -- "we aren't going to pretend, we have to be honest, there will be some obvious duplications" -- he said, "In our world, when we spend $1 billion in capital, that is putting people to work."
Obvious duplications would be payroll, finance, marketing, IT...pretty much everyone in the downtown campus does today...all things that could be done from out east. The increase would come from the contractors hired to install the new fibre network. Not many would be working in a downtown office.