Incomplete list of U.S. internet/high-tech/communications job destruction and chicanery announcements in July 2018:
The Washington Post: Millions of educated, experienced workers have been tossed aside
The Guardian: Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
ALABAMA: Verizon shutting down its call center in Huntsville, some employees will continue working from home while others will get laid off.
Facebook to Build $750M [spy] Data Center in Huntsville
ARKANSAS: Hewlett-Packard to Lay Off 500 in Conway
CALIFORNIA: Univision continues killing jobs, this time an additional 6% of its workforce. San Francisco based rideshare Uber suddenly laid off about 1-hundred ‘self-drive’ employees across the U.S., apparently due to self-drive accidents! Sony Pictures suddenly laid off 25 people. Mountain View based InfoTech company Tintri now chapter 11 bankrupt busted. Entertainment marketer Ant Farm issued a shutdown WARN for its Los Angeles office, 80 jobs gone in September. In Palo Alto, Space Systems/Loral revealed they laid off 109 people last month! Fabless semiconductor maker Cavium issued a layoff WARN for three locations, 45 jobs gone by September. In Mountain View, ‘data protection’ company Veritas Technologies revealed it laid off 71 people, back in April. Marvel Semiconductor issued layoff WARNs for two locations, 45 jobs gone by September. Taylor Communications revealed it shutdown its Livermore ops last month, 37 jobs killed without warning. Embedded software company Wind River Systems issued a layoff WARN for its Alameda location, 64 jobs gone by Mid-September. iPayment issued a layoff WARN for its Westlake Village location, 30 jobs gone by mid-September.
A shadow workforce of contract labor keeps Google humming
Layoffs and Management Shuffles Plague Seagate
Tesla, Pushing for Profit, Faces New Questions Over Finances
Tesla finally hits weekly production target for Model 3
Elon Musk’s ‘pedo’ attack rattles Tesla investors: ‘This thing is unraveling’
COLORADO: Phone-book publisher turned tech company reveals Denver-area layoffs
CONNECTICUT: What housing market recovery? Online based home loan lender The Money Source suddenly laid off 60 people across the U.S., unnamed victims reported to industry news media that they were only told to attend a webinar where they were informed they were no longer employed.
State taxpayers forced to ‘loan’ Chinese tech company $10-million USD to set up shop in Connecticut!
FLORIDA: Taxpayer funded Space Coast Launch Services eliminating 102 jobs by the end of September!
Industry leaders sound off on Orlando’s high-tech disconnect
GEORGIA: High-level Georgia Tech administrators out after internal audit
IDAHO: InfoTech company Sykes issued a shutdown WARN for its Boise call center, 640 jobs gone, asks police to be present! Also in Boise, Marvel Semiconductor issued a WARN, 16 jobs gone in September. Now bankrupt busted Tintri has city of Lewiston upset because they’re on year one of a three year contract: “We put a lot of money into these Tintri boxes, and we need to get the life expectancy out of them.”-Danny Santiago
North Idaho tech innovator arrested under suspicion of domestic battery
Idaho Inmates Hacked Prison Service for $225000 in Credit
Taxpayers forced to give Wendell High students new laptops
ILLINOIS: The new owner of computer driven Chicago Stock Exchange suddenly laid off about 12 people (the new owner is New York Stock Exchange). Chicago based in-flight wi-fi Gogo laid off 55 people, possibly in connection with problems with its new airliner wi-fi antennas.
Nutrien buys startup Agrible for $63M
INDIANA: Electronic resistor maker CTS issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Elkhart, 103 jobs gone by Xmas!
IOWA: Iowa Wireless/T-Mobile eliminating 27 jobs in Cedar Rapids, by November.
KENTUCKY: Lexington based Lexmark eliminating at least 1-thousand jobs globally!
MARYLAND: Tech engineering company Sierra Nevada lays off ‘approximately 40’ at Hagerstown-area facility
MASSACHUSETTS: Data storage firm Western Digital to close Marlborough office
F5 Networks ….plans to close an office in Massachusetts
MICHIGAN: Teleperformance USA shutdown its Grand Rapids call center, 91 jobs gone. Charter Communications laying off 111 people at two locations in August!
MINNESOTA: Information solutions company NCS Pearson issued a WARN, 82 jobs in Bloomington gone in September.
Great Lakes Polymer Technologies plant in Albert Lea to close
Duluth confronts expensive reality of school tech push
MISSOURI: BJC HealthCare suddenly laid off 113 InfoTech employees and contractors, in connection to its new Epic go-live ops!
Another 40 employees laid off at EaglePicher Technologies
MONTANA: Five workers in Butte, 100 in Moses Lake lose REC Silicon jobs
NEVADA: After forcing utility customers to pay for car charging stations and revealing that most of its revenue actually comes from casinos, Tesla awards a piddly $1.5 Million To Nevada STEM programs. Other news reports say Tesla will donate $37-million in total, albeit spread over five years.
‘All humanity has left the area’: paying for Tesla’s Gigafactory
NEW HAMPSHIRE: California based software maker Extreme Networks WARNing it could eliminate as many as 99 jobs at its ops in Salem, apparently no reason was given.
NEW JERSEY: Taxpayers forced to give $5-million USD to save the main stream news media! or New Jersey’s Experiment in State-Funded News
NEW YORK: The Illinois based owner of New York Daily News suddenly laid off 93 people. In Painted Post, Sitel shutting down its call center, 184 jobs gone before Halloween! Brooklyn-NYC based advertiser Laundry Service eliminating 45 jobs by October, including its founder.
OHIO: ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM OF TOMORROW unsure of status of 2,300 students
PENNSYLVANIA: Aptiv acquires Winchester Interconnect in $650 million agreement
Medtronic closing office & eliminating 63 jobs
SOUTH CAROLINA: InfoTech company Sykes shutting down its Greenwood ops, 213 jobs gone by mid-September!
TEXAS: Circuit board maker Dynalyst now chapter 11 bankrupt busted with more than $1-million USD in debts. San Antonio Express News laid off 20 people.
UTAH: IM Flash to lay off 7% of Utah workforce
VERMONT: WCAX to Cut Production Staff
WASHINGTON: Seattle based multi-cloud F5 Networks laying off 230 InfoTech employees, despite still advertising for more than 3-hundred open jobs and claiming to have made $150-million USD in profits! China based Ofo Bikeshare halting U.S. ops, including in leftist liberal Seattle where local news media speculated that the city’s plans to regulate bike sharing is the reason. Germany based InfoTech/logistics company Arvato issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Yakima, 168 jobs gone by the end of September!
Washington DC: DC-based tech start-up FiscalNote to buy CQ Roll Call
U.S. Tech/Communications breakdown, June 2018: “REDEPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES”