United States of America
Verizon Communications sells wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses, public-sector customers and other carriers, and had about 89,900 full-time-equivalent employees at December 31, 2025. Its headquarters is at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.
Two reportable segments, Verizon Consumer Group and Verizon Business Group, run as strategic business units. Consumer brought in $106.8 billion of 2025 revenue, about 77% of the company total. At December 31, 2025, it had about 116 million wireless retail connections, 83% of them postpaid, and about 11 million broadband connections. Business earned $29.1 billion in 2025, about 21% of the total. It sells to companies, public-sector bodies and carriers, with offerings such as IoT connectivity, corporate networking and managed network services. Postpaid wireless retail connections in that segment stood at about 31 million at December 31, 2025. Its 2025 revenue came from Enterprise and Public Sector ($13.5 billion), Business Markets and Other ($13.6 billion) and Wholesale ($2.0 billion).
Employers with Verizon in their legal name submitted 363 H-1B labor condition applications (LCAs) in calendar 2025, and more than a third listed a worksite in Irving, Texas. Verizon Data Services LLC filed 296 of them and Verizon Corporate Resources Group LLC filed 52. The four busiest worksites that year:
Careers-site postings open on October 13, 2026 name several of the same cities. A Senior Manager, Security Operations opening lists Basking Ridge, Alpharetta, Irving, Ashburn, Temple Terrace and Cary, North Carolina. A Product Engineer opening lists Boston, Alpharetta and Basking Ridge. The 2025 annual report describes facilities by type, not by site: administrative and sales offices, customer care centers, retail stores, garage work centers, switching centers, cell sites and data centers across the US.
Filing titles pair a rank with a discipline. Software development leads the 2025 filings, with 33 for Principal Engineer-Software Development and 21 for Senior Engineer Consultant-Software Development. Full stack work adds 17 Principal Engineer and 16 Senior Engineer Consultant filings. Emerging Commercial Platforms accounts for 12 Senior Engineer Consultant and 11 Principal Engineer filings. Senior Engineer Consultant-Application Development has 9, and Distinguished Engineer-Software Development has 8. Across these titles the engineering ranks run from Senior Engineer Consultant to Principal Engineer to Distinguished Engineer.
Careers-site postings spell out the experience each role needs. The Senior Manager, Security Operations posting asks for six or more years of relevant experience. Product Engineer asks for a bachelor's degree or one or more years of work experience and sits in the Systems Engineering and Architecture job family. The site sorts openings into eight career fields, from Retail to Technology.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, the company announced plans to cut more than 13,000 positions. Over 80% of the affected employees left in December 2025. California's WARN list shows two permanent layoff notices dated November 20, 2025, both effective January 23, 2026: 139 employees in Irvine and 54 in Walnut Creek. About 89% of employees were based in the US at December 31, 2025. The Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers together represented about 27% of employees on that date. LCA filings by Verizon-named employers rose from 249 in calendar 2023 to 335 in 2024 and 363 in 2025.