ZURICH - The company called the move a multi-year reset of its operating model, aimed at competitiveness and efficiency. It is also reviewing supplier contracts and other external costs. In selected teams it is offering voluntary exits on the same terms as the social plan. Syndicom said the improved plan can keep some people on the payroll for up to twelve months, depending on age and years of service, and in certain cases beyond that. Staff had already answered the original plan with a petition in September, and during consultation they filed anonymous accounts of what the work actually involves and what losing it would mean.
The second round of the year
This is not the first cut of 2026. At the start of the year Sunrise announced 147 job losses. That round was finished in the summer. Added together, the group is removing more than 500 roles in a single year from a workforce of about 2,850 full-time posts. Syndicom said it noted the consultation result "positively" and hopes this is the last round. It also warned that the people who stay will carry a heavier load once colleagues leave. For those who go, a smaller number and a longer runway do not change the fact of the redundancy.
A labour market that keeps shedding head-office work
Sunrise joins a run of Swiss corporate cuts this season, from watches to chocolate. Lindt and Sprüngli removed its chief executive on Sunday after two forecast cuts, and the pressure on head-office roles is the same one a Deloitte study described this week: artificial intelligence does not fill the care and trade shortages, but it does put entry-level office work in the way of restructuring. Telecoms is now part of that story. The consultation saved close to a hundred jobs. It did not save the plan.