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  Optus sheds 290 jobs

  Optus has confirmed it will cut around 290 jobs as part of a restructure initially flagged last month.

• Telecom NZ cuts 120 at Gen-i Australia

  Telecom NZ has slashed 120 Australian jobs at its ICT services unit, Gen-i Australia, as the division refocuses on large customers.

• Telstra to slash 648 jobs from its Sensis business

  Telstra has confirmed it will cut nearly 650 jobs from its Sensis business around Australia.

• More jobs axed as Optus restructures

  Optus has confirmed it will be making further redundancies this year, following jobs cuts totally nearly 1000 jobs in the 12 months to 31 December, 2012.

• Optus slashes nearly 1000 staff in a year

  Optus has shed 305 staff over the three months to 31 December, 2012, SingTel announced today.

• 740 Salmat staff to face redundancy

  740 Salmat call centre employees will lose their jobs after the company lost a hefty contract with Telstra this week.

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  Analyst Phil Hassey tweets out of Springboard

  Well regarded Sydney-based IT industry analyst, Phil Hassey, has announced being made redundant as vice president of Springboard Research on Twitter and other social networking portals.

• Bankwest to cut 400 staff

  Bankwest has announced that a “handful” of IT staff and more than 50 IT contractors will be made redundant as the bank deals with the global economic crisis.

• Qantas axes CIO after 18 months

  Qantas has axed the CIO role amid a corporate restructure announced earlier this month.

• Aussies unscathed as Big Blue sweeps US

  Some 14,000 local IBM staff are safe from a reported 4000 job cuts sweeping across the company's US operations.

• Report: IBM poised to cut more US jobs

  IBM is planning to cut "a large number" of U.S. jobs in its Global Business Services division, with many positions being switched over to workers in India, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing anonymous sources.

• Data center talent pool shrinks faster than expected

  The talent pool of senior data center pros is shrinking faster than anticipated as budget cuts have forced businesses to close their doors and shed older workers, the ones with the most knowledge and experience, according to the AFCOM Data Center Institute (DCI).