AstraZeneca PLC is eliminating 1,800 research and development jobs as part of a restructuring process. The pharmaceutical company said about 550 jobs will be eliminated at its U.S. headquarters in Delaware, where it psychiatric research laboratory will be closed. AstraZeneca will also be closing research sites in Sweden and the United Kingdom, the Associated Press reports. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 28, 2010
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced today that it will lay off 8,000 employees over the next four years, representing 12% of its workforce. Job cuts will impact all divisions of the company, which has a presence in over 100 countries around the world. AstraZeneca’s U.S. headquarters are in Wilmington, Delaware. The company’s U.S. workforce makes up [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 30, 2009
Massive layoffs were ever present on Thursday as the tally of jobs lost reaches 13,000. Drugmaker AstraZeneca, photo company Eastman Kodak, aircraft company Cessna, truck manufacturer Oshkosh, retailer Bon-Ton, and Charles Schwab all announced that they would be laying off workers. Thursday was just another tragic day on the job market. The entire week has been mauled [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 29, 2009
Job losses continue in massive numbers as more than 10,000 new layoffs were announced before the market opened on Thursday. Drugmaker AstraZeneca, photo company Eastman Kodak, and truck manufacturer Oshkosh all announced thousands of new job cuts. AstraZeneca, a British based company, stated that they would be cutting another 6,000 jobs internationally. The 6,000 cuts are in addition [...]
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