<span style="color: #222222;">Britain's biggest broadband and mobile provider BT Group will be laying off around 55 thousand staff including contractors by 2030. This constitutes over 40 percent of BT Group's workforce. <br />''<br />''The layoff is mainly due to the completion of the fibre roll-out and the adoption of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence by the company. The telecom firm has been working to build a national fibre network and roll out high-speed 5G mobile services. <br />''<br />''The company said that the adoption of new technologies will help it function with the help of a much smaller workforce and significantly reduced cost base by the end of the 2030s. <br />''<br />''BT group's total number of workers would reduce from one lakh 30 thousand to between 75 thousand and 90 thousand by 2030. Around 30 thousand of BT Group's current employees are contractors.</span><br />