Staff happy after Vodafone-Idea merger? It’s still just an idea

Mumbai | New Delhi: The corporate leadership of telecom market leader by customer base, Vodafone-Idea, is trying to cope with the merger’s biggest challenge — managing employee morale at a time of huge job losses. So far, management has chalked up more losses than wins.

“The morale is quite low… The message we are getting is ‘everyone’s job is under threat’, which is harming performance,” said a senior employee of Vodafone Idea, India’s newly created telecom market leader. ET spoke to 14 company employees and consultants, who chose to speak off record.