BT Openreach turns to VR to entice next-generation of network engineers

Dan Worth
Dan Worth
clock 20 March 2017 •

Trainees to see for themselves what the job is like before they start

BT's Openreach division - that ill one day become an independent entity - plans to hire 1,500 new engineers over the next 12 months and will use virtual reality (VR) to entice them to the role. The...

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