Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in May 2018:
British empire United Kingdom based facebook data stealing Cambridge Analytica now bankrupt busted in the United States, due to $10-million USD of debt: “Over the past several months, Cambridge Analytica has been the subject of numerous unfounded accusations. The siege of media coverage has driven away virtually all of the company’s customers and suppliers. As a result, it has been determined that it is no longer viable to continue operating the business.”
CALIFORNIA: Deluxe Entertainment Services Group-Deluxe Digital laying off 52 people in Burbank, by the end of July. Charter Communications suddenly laid off 66 people in Cerritos. Data warehousing company VSolvit suddenly laid off 107 people in Ventura! Santa Barbara based consumer electronics company Sonos suddenly laid off 96 people, despite claiming to be growing and profitable. Japan founded DENSO Wireless Systems America issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Vista, 160 jobs gone by the end of July! Electronic device maker AMETEK issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Irvine, 42 jobs gone by the end of June. Symantec continues killing jobs, this time 14 people in Mountain View unemployed in June. Also in Mountain View, data ‘protection’ company Veritas Technologies finally told state unemployment officials that it killed 54 jobs back in April. Japan owned, Culver City based Sony Crackle suddenly laid off a dozen people “to streamline operations and increase efficiency”. Video game maker Blind Squirrel Games laid off 13 people due to the sudden cancellation of a project. Video game maker Daybreak Game Company issued a layoff WARN for its San Diego location, 79 jobs gone by the end of June. Soleil Communications issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego ops, 88 jobs gone mid-July. Also in San Diego, Qualcomm laying off 44 people by mid-July. San Francisco based media-tech company PopSugar laid off 19 people “to achieve profitability.” Qatar based Al Jazeera issued a shutdown WARN for its San Francisco office, 68 jobs gone by August. Beverly Hills based Relativity Media bankrupt busted and being sold-off due to more than $500-million USD of debts generated over a two years period. Ironically job search website Snagajob shutdown its Oakland office. Taylor Communications issued a shutdown WARN for its Livermore location, 43 jobs gone by the end of June. Credit.org issued a shutdown WARN for its Riverside location, 43 jobs gone by July. NetApp issued a layoff WARN for its Sunnyvale location, 36 jobs gone in July. Online food ordering company Munchery issued a shutdown WARN for its Gardena location, 82 jobs lost in July (Munchery shuts down operations in LA, New York and Seattle). Intel issued a layoff WARN for its Santa Clara operations, 65 jobs gone by the end of June. Business communications company RR Donnelley issued a shutdown WARN for its San Diego and Ontario locations, 59 jobs gone in July. ‘Content connector’ Grass Valley shutting down in July.
FLORIDA: Time shutting down its Customer Service centers, 621 jobs gone between July 2018 and March 2019!
ILLINOIS: Allstate Print Communication Center issued a shutdown WARN for its operations in Wheeling, 220 jobs gone between May and December, due to being outsourced!
LOUISIANA: Monroe based CenturyLink keeps killing jobs, this time around 1-thousand people will become unemployed as a result of CenturyLink’s merger with L3 Communications!
MASSACHUSETTS: Inside the ‘dehumanizing’ cost-cutting efforts by new Digital First Media ownership at the Boston Herald
Mitt Romney co-founded Framingham based, but now privately owned, Staples suddenly killed yet more corporate level jobs, 175 InfoTech employees now jobless, bringing this years corporate layoff tally to at least 2-hundred!
MINNESOTA: Best Buy shutdown its 10 years old Mall of America brick-n-mortar store. Artesyn Embedded Tech issued a WARN, 65 jobs gone by the end of June. Telemarketer Marketlink issued a WARN, 62 jobs gone mid-July.
NEW JERSEY: Apple shutdown one of its brick-n-mortar stores in Atlantic City, 52 jobs gone “Due to a sharp decline in tourism and visitors to the area…” Mimeo.com issued a WARN, 116 people in Newark jobless by July!
NEW MEXICO: Call center contractor Convergys eliminating about 1-hundred jobs in Albuquerque due to the expiration of a contract, local news media revealed that Convergys received almost $200-thousand USD in taxpayer funded incentives to create 1-hundred jobs last year!
NEW YORK: Condé Nast’s American Vogue and Vanity Fair together laid off 14 people. NYC based Viacom suddenly laid off 1-hundred people as it attempts save money while battling for control of CBS! Software maker for the retail industry Aptos shutting down its Newburgh office, 117 jobs lost over the next 12 months! California based human interface hardware maker Synaptics halting production at its Linden Oaks facility, 40 jobs gone by mid-July.
WRAL Tech Wire: Feds launch age discrimination probe of IBM in making layoffs
NORTH CAROLINA: Sykes shutting down a call center in Fayetteville, 377 jobs gone in July! Local news media said that at one point the call center employed more than 5-hundred people.
OHIO: IBM controlled Watson Health suddenly laid off at least 40 people in Cleveland, a now former employee posted online “….to close the shop, will happen in early 2019. … This round of cuts is much bigger than anyone is reporting, they cutting deep and wide, there is no recovery from this one…”
PENNSYLVANIA: Call center contractor Ibex Global Solutions shutting down its operations in the Indiana Mall, 105 jobs lost unless a new client can be found soon!
SOUTH CAROLINA: QS/1 suddenly laid off an undisclosed number of people, yet at the same time the healthcare software maker claims to be hiring for multiple technology positions.
UTAH: The Salt Lake Tribune laid off 64 people. The new owner of Standard-Examiner laid off four people.
VERMONT: After 72 years, magazine Vermont Life is now dead.
VIRGINIA: Ironically job search website Snagajob laid off an undisclosed number of employees at its Richmond office.
WASHINGTON: Video game maker Wargaming Seattle shutting down in Redmond, 155 jobs gone by mid-July, company officials saying “Development was discontinued on May 23”!
U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, April 2018: “…TO THRIVE IN THE FUTURE.”