More proof you brick-n-mortar store owners can’t directly blame the internet/high-tech competition for your demise. Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction announcements in September 2016:
Alabama: AT&T eliminating 190 jobs due to consolidation of some operations to Georgia! Scottsdale based e-cig maker NJOY now bankrupt busted, blaming declining sales for creating $234-million USD of debt.
Arizona: Japan based Ricoh eliminating 68 call center jobs in Tempe. ARRIS Group eliminating 195 call center jobs in Phoenix!
California: Unnammed employees report that Apple eliminated “dozens” of jobs with its self driving car project in an attempt to “reboot” the project. Open Source data mining op H2O.ai (0xdata) announced a shift in strategy for raising cash, then laid off nine sales people. After laying off an undisclosed number of Disney Imagineering employees last month, Disney announced the elimination of 250 additional jobs at it’s video game studios in Glendale! Also in Glendale, Dreamworks eliminating 226 jobs due to being taken over by NBCUniversal-Comcast! Japan based Sony laid off at least 40 video game makers from its Sony San Diego Studios. Solar panel installer Verengo now bankrupt and eliminating at least 82 jobs right before Thanksgiving. Solar power company Enphase Energy eliminating 11% of its global workforce “…to increase our competitiveness…” Struggling solar power company SunEdison laid off 17 people in Belmont, without warning. In Mountain View, Symantec issued a layoff WARN, 23 jobs gone by November. In Sunnyvale, Hewlett Packard revealed it had eliminated 77 jobs back in the middle of August. Southern California Edison eliminating 43 jobs in Rosemead, by Halloween. Technology Solutions shutdown its Chula Vista ops, 102 jobs gone! In San Jose, Synaptics Incorporated finally revealed it laid off 77 people, back in July. Xerox laid off 19 people in Irvine. Pacific Laser Systems shutdown its San Rafael ops, 69 jobs gone. Internet clothier drjays.com issued a shutdown WARN for their San Diego ops. In Milpitas, Western Digital issued a layoff WARN, 59 people jobless by October.
Connecticut: Stamford based cell phone service company Frontier Communications announced it will kill 250 jobs in connection to its take-over of Verizon’s California, Florida and Texas networks!
Florida: Taxsucker Honeywell Sensing and Productivity Solutions eliminating 52 jobs in the name of “efficiency”, starting in January 2017. Contracted telecommunications/customer service company Sitel eliminating 199 jobs in Ocala, right after Halloween!
Illinois: Now China owned Motorola Mobility eliminated between 7-hundred and 1-thousand jobs! Ever since Lenovo’s take-over of Chicago based Motorola Mobility, in 2014, thousands of jobs have been killed globally. Rubicon Technology shutting down its six years old factory in Batavia, affecting 50 jobs by December. Rubicon Technology also laying off 17 people at its Bensenville ops, by November.
Louisiana: Monroe based CenturyLink sent employees a letter stating that 3-thousand 5-hundred jobs are on the chopping block! The employee cost reduction layoffs will begin immediately.
Main: Xerox shutting down their Lewiston customer service ops in October, 140 jobs lost!
Maryland: Taxsucker Textron Systems eliminating 45 jobs at its ‘drone’ factory in Baltimore, blaming it on a “…change in the mix…”.
Massachusetts: EnerNOC eliminating more than 2-hundred software jobs as “…part of a broader restructuring plan designed to materially reduce the Company’s operating expenses..”!
New Jersey: Gannett eliminating 426 Satellite Information Network jobs right before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday! Is the true reason because Gannett continues spending millions of dollars buying out competitors? Tax-haven Ireland based security systems company Tyco International eliminating ten jobs at its Princeton location, after Xmas.
New York: IBM continues mass layoffs, unnamed employees report that layoff notices continue to be issued despite IBM administrators claiming they have 25-thousand open positions! IBM claims the jobs they’re eliminating are “redundancies”, and the layoffs are part of plans to shift to cloud computing.
Oregon: Florida based Sykes shutting down their Eugene call center, 418 jobs gone by the end of October!
Pennsylvania: Tribune-Review eliminating 106 jobs as it shifts to digital editions only, by the end of November!
Texas: Austin based internet news outlet The Daily Dot laid off at least 15 people in an effort to do “…the right thing for the long-term sustainability of the Dot…”. Round Rock based Dell plans to eliminate 3-thousand jobs after its take-over of EMC!
Washington: Massachusetts based Lionbridge Technologies eliminated 31 jobs at its Bellevue ops due to losing a contract with Microsoft. Redmond based Microsoft shutting down a Skype office in United Kingdom, about 2-hundred jobs lost! In Aberdeen, after 30 years Techline shutting down so the owners can retire for good.
Washington DC: Oh yes he can! The Obama regime transfered control of the internet to a supposedly California based ‘non-profit’ corporation called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ending decades of oversight by the government’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The states of Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas have filed lawsuits to try and stop the transfer of total internet power.
September 2016 Government Shenanigans: MARIJUANA SAVES COLORADO! ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS PROTECTED IN IDAHO?
August 2016 Tech/Communication layoffs: “WITH SUCH FAST GROWTH, WE LOST SOME FOCUS…”
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Former employees who receive severance are not counted as unemployed