86 employees will have their jobs phased out over the next 6 months at Dresser, Inc. in Tioga, Louisiana. The Tioga location is a valve facility employing more than 400 in the local area. Dresser has decided to outsource its manufacturing division and focus on assembly and shipping instead. A few employees will be placed [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 25, 2010
Wal-Mart Stores will cut about 11,200 jobs at its Sam’s Club warehouses, according to a company-wide memo distributed Sunday. Wal-Mart is laying off 10,000 workers who demonstrate products in Sam’s Club stores (such as food samples) and will cut an additional 1,200 membership recruiting jobs. The product demonstrations will be outsourced to Shopper Events, an Arkansas-based [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 15, 2010
Starbucks is closing down a Seattle call center and outsourcing the jobs to Nashville’s Sitel. The 130 employees of the call center will lose their jobs later this year. According to Starbucks, they are outsourcing the jobs because a call center vendor is better equipped to handle the high volume of calls. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 4, 2009
The Journal News, owned and operated by Gannet Co. and located just outside of New York City, is cutting 165 jobs. The job cuts will come as it outsources its printing and mailing operations to a company in New Jersey. The Journal News will also put its headquarters on the market. Once [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 30, 2009
Delta Air Lines Inc. has announced a plan to close call centers in London and Montreal and bring those jobs back to the US in a move designed to improve efficiency. Delta stopped using an additional call center in India in April of this year, citing customer complaints. The company has not yet [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 29, 2009
American icon Harley-Davidsonhas decided to outsource some “noncore” jobs to suppliers. These will include things such as chrome plating and stamping of parts, but the company will continue to do all assembly, metal fabrication and painting in house. The cuts will come at its assembly plant in York County, Pennsylvania, but Harley-Davidson is [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 26, 2009
Convergys, a human resources and customer management outsourcing company based in Cincinnati, is filling 200 new positions at its contact center in Kentucky. The company says these positions have arisen primarily due to one new customer. Some of the positions are part time or seasonal with the remainder to be full time permanent [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 28, 2009
Hyatt has come under pressure for replacing 98 employees in Boston, all part of the housekeeping staff, with outsourced workers earning half the wages. Last week, Hyatt offered all 98 positions with United Services Company, a staffing organization used by Hyatt. The workers would keep their Hyatt pay rate through the end of [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Williamsville, New York’s Independent Health Association will lay off 50 employees, outsource some technology and telecommunications jobs, and selling the majority of its third-party administration business. Affected employees will receive outplacement services and severance. The firm employs 1,000. Founded in 1980 as the outgrowth of a University at Buffalo graduate school research project, Independent Health covers over [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Digital River will cut 120 jobs globally as it outsources its customer service operations. The company has about 1,335 employees. Founded in 1994, Digital River is an e-commerce outsourcing company whose clientele is largely software publishers. The company is the leading provider of software delivery over the Internet. Its largest client is Symantec. Other [...]
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