TELECOMMUNICATIONS

AT&T; Gets Calls About Employees: The telecommunications company said it received hundreds of calls after placing full-page ads in 29 newspapers seeking jobs for workers it is laying off. The ads listed a toll-free line for prospective employers to request more information. The ads were designed to run as the end of work at AT&T; Corp. comes for about 2,000 managers who were told in mid-January that their jobs would be phased out after two months. However, some of those managers found other work within the company. AT&T; will eliminate about 40,000 jobs over the next two years, about 30,000 through layoffs, as it splits into three companies. By midafternoon, AT&T; had received 750 calls. Most were from communications industry firms but computer makers, finance and publishing companies also called.