Sentences with phrase «laid off»

«There's probably about 5 — 6 thousand solar jobs in the state, and most of those jobs are going to get laid off,» Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity, told ThinkProgress.

complain that the number of employees laid off at Chrysler in this period is at least as large - and may even have been larger - than the number of jobs that probably would have been lost had Chrysler actually been forced into bankruptcy.

Embattled San Francisco coffee roaster Four Barrel recently laid off seven employees, a move co-owner Tal Mor said was necessary following a decline in the company's wholesale business.

Between the success of the onboarding initiative and the shift to more chatbots, the company laid off another 42 employees in March, just four months after it closed its $ 50 million Series C.

«The TECO Coal Corp. mine I worked for completely shut down,» he said, recalling identical fates with two other mining companies he'd worked for until being laid off.

If your company downsizes and you get laid off, every moment you spend in denial just delays whatever is waiting over the horizon.

Back in March, 1,000 construction workers employed on contract to work on the $ 3.2 billion Sunrise oil sands project were laid off.

But like so many miners in Hazard, surrounding Perry County and throughout eastern Kentucky, Bowling was laid off, another victim of the coal industry's steady decline nationwide, especially over the past decade.

The company had already announced 300 people were being laid off at its head office in Waterloo this week as part of a broader plan that will reduce its global workforce by about 40 per cent.

Nike's portfolio of sponsored athletes shrunk, it laid off employees and its product lines became more focused.

It was bad news for the employees who were laid off, but great news for small companies that specialized in a given business service, which in my particular case was worker safety, training and organizational development.

In addition to the subsequent stock drop to even lower levels, the company announced in August that it had laid off 14 members of its recruitment team and temporarily halted the hiring of salaried employees.

It had already laid off thousands of employees in 2013

Americans were stunned last year by news that Disney Corp. had laid off dozens of its American IT staff, and replaced them with foreign workers on the H - 1B work visa.

Nearly seven in ten (69 %) of middle - income retirees would have liked to have stayed longer in their old careers, but had to leave earlier than they planned for «reasons beyond their control,» the report says — most commonly because of health problems (39 %), being laid off (19 %), or to care for a loved one (9 %).

Looks like a few of the folks who got laid off at Zynga earlier this week are coping with the breakup by venting about it on Reddit.

Getting fired or laid off can be a devastating experience.

Walt Disney Studios, Disney's theatrical, television and home entertainment arm, laid off 150 employees last month, including some senior executives, as part of an ongoing company - wide effort to streamline staffing levels.

It is expected that 1,800 people will be laid off and more store closures are coming.

In a recent bout of restructuring, the company laid off a number of head office employees.

Five months after the release of the Pebble Time Round, Pebble laid off 25 percent of its workforce, despite having raised $ 26 million in venture capital in the months before.

The number of people who were unemployed because they had been laid off actually declined in July.

The market has been held aloft in part by hefty severance packages granted to laid off oilsands workers, allowing them to keep paying their mortgages.

McDonald's Corp said on Thursday it laid off in July 135 employees at its U.S. headquarters and 90 corporate employees posted overseas as part of a major restructuring at the fast - food chain, which has been fighting to reverse a long sales slump.

As part of its wind - down, Target says it will place $ 70 million into a trust to provide for a minimum of 16 weeks of pay and benefits for those who are laid off.

Only a couple of the CEOs we spoke to had laid off more than two or three people; a few had added head count; and many had replaced employees as the market for available talent ripened to bursting.

The effects are being felt by some companies that have been in the vanguard of developing 3D printing technology, not just 3D Systems, but also rival MakerBot, which has laid off more than 100 employees over the last seven months.

Those who were contract workers were laid off immediately, with permanent employees given one month to find another job within the company.

On Friday, the New York Times reported that Apple has laid off dozens of employees on its self - driving car project, and closed down parts of the project entirely.

It laid off 42 employees at the same time, a move that followed two other rounds of layoffs.

This has a huge benefit, also, for older workers who find it hard to shift toward our heavily digitized industry (especially those who may be laid off due to automation but haven't had the opportunity to retrain themselves in digital skills).

This ended up being a particularly good move because by the time I got laid off on November 1, I'd already saved $ 17,220.

Mostly, he's tired of explaining the book is more than just a salacious takedown of HubSpot, the Boston - area startup he joined at age 52 after being laid off from Newsweek.

What would seem like a logical conclusion — as companies slashed costs and laid off staff, they would turn increasingly to temp solutions until the economy rebounded — was not, in fact, the case.

Tiburon, a $ 48 - million provider of public - safety systems and services, laid off 80 of its 320 employees last year.

Then, there was the company that laid off so many employees, they had to place an ad for «fake employees» to make the office look bustling when the clients visited.

«Frankly, people were very scared that they were going to get laid off.»

Rubicon is not a small startup that will fizzle into obscurity when its tech falters or its employees get laid off.

Her agency already laid off a dozen employees this year, raised entry prices and discontinued some free Sundays at Santa Fe museums as attendance numbers dipped.

Hayden, who calls himself «a great salesman,» was working at Kellogg's until he was laid off eight years ago.

Jan. 30, 2014: About 950 full - time employees are laid off at Best Buy and Future Shop stores across Canada as the company thins out management and combines some of its sales departments.

The company laid off one employee who was hired one back as a freelancer.

The funds can come from multiple sources and even multiple people - maybe a spouse who will also be part of the business or former co-workers who were also laid off and are looking for a new opportunity.

Were you laid off over the past couple of years and sick of the job - hunting circus?

An open house in late 1992 drew 150 people from miles around, many laid off from GE, RCA, and Martin Marietta.

It also laid off all the Netscape programmers working on Mozilla.

According to California's Employment Development Department, Cisco has so far laid off 899 California - based employees as of August 18.

SolarCity has also cut its marketing costs and laid off members of its sales and marketing team.

Ex — Nortel Networks engineer Bruce Murison came up with the idea for the device after being laid off in 2003.

In 2003, an Indian virologist deemed to be expendable is laid off.