Five staffers in the Chronicle’s classified advertising department, four of them Guild members, agreed to job buyouts last week, according to the union, and “at least one voluntary layoff has been accepted in editorial.
Source: San Francisco Business Times
Some employees at BusinessWeek magazine were surprised to hear about layoffs proposed in the first quarter of this year — they said they hadn’t heard a thing about it.
According to the information memorandum, 55 of 217 positions are supposed to be eliminated. Of sales, 9 of 69. Of marketing, 6 of 26. Of technology, 8 of 33. Of circulation, just one of 19. And in the “other” category, 6 of 57. That’s a total of 85 eliminations among 421 jobs - about 20 percent - leaving 336 BusinessWeek employees.
Source: NYTimes
KNX/1070 AM gave layoff notices Wednesday to one news anchor, three reporters, and two sports reporters. Let go were anchor Larry Van Nuys, news reporters Todd Leitz, Vytas Safronikas, Karen Zarsadiaz, and sports reporters Joe Cala and Chris Madsen.
Source: OCRegister
The New Bern Sun Journal reported that Embarq will cut about 100 jobs when it closes its call center in November. The closing is connected with Embarq’s recent merger with CenturyTel Inc.
The Raleigh News & Observer reported that Time Warner Cable will close its customer-call center in Fayetteville on Oct. 29. Those 80 jobs will move to Raleigh and Wilmington.
Source: Winston-Salem Journal
Yahoo Inc is moving the product development team for one of its key Web properties to Taiwan, the latest change within the Internet company as it moves to cut costs and revamp its online offering.
The product development and operations teams for the Yahoo News division will be based out of Taiwan, said Yahoo spokeswoman Kim Rubey. The types of jobs moving overseas include product management, engineering and user interface design, Rubey said.
Source: Forbes
A downturn in business has forced Broadcast Electronics to lay off 10 employees from its 4100 N. 24th site.
President and CEO Joe Roark told WGEM News the layoffs occurred Monday morning. Roark said the decision was made primarily because of a drop in business from clients in the radio industry that have cut back purchases due to the recession.
Source: Quincy Herald Whig
San Francisco Chronicle management representatives met Friday with the San Francisco Media Workers Guild to discuss the Chronicle’s plans to slash additional jobs through both buyouts and layoffs, Guild officials said in an Aug. 28 statement.
Source: SF Business Times
Social web site Facebook Inc. is looking for hundreds of people to hire, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report, based on an Aug. 20 interview with Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, said the Palo Alto, Calif. company plans to increase its work force by 50 percent this year. The business has about 900 workers right now.
Source: San Francisco Business Times
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on Thursday that 112 jobs were being cut at the newspaper, just months after its new owner laid off nearly 200 employees.
Source: AFP
Adopting the robot janitor character from the Disney/Pixar movie “WALL-E” as their poster child, a group of janitors laid off from Pixar Animation Studios protested today outside Pixar’s Emeryville headquarters.
Nine out of a staff of 21 janitors were laid off in January when Pixar entered into contract with a new janitorial firm, Preferred Building Services Inc., which has offices in San Francisco.
Source: MercuryNews
The Los Angeles Times will deliver the Orange County Register to homes and vending machines beginning in September, the two newspapers said Wednesday.
55 full-time and 143 part-time Register circulation and distribution workers would be laid off, and 721 independent contractors who deliver the Register would be affected.
Source: LATimes
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Employees at The Boston Globe voted Monday to accept a package of deep concessions on wages, benefits and job security six weeks after they rejected a similar package, capping a period of labor strife that included a threat by The New York Times Company to close the venerable newspaper.
Source: NYTimes
The country’s largest newspaper chain plans to continue scaling back in 2009. Last year, Gannett shed 4,600 jobs and now plans on cutting another 1,000 to 2,000.
Gannett, which publishes USA Today and more than 80 dailies, already mandated two unpaid furloughs this year in an effort to save money.
Source: Politico
Vibe, the popular hip-hop and urban culture magazine founded by legendary producer Quincy Jones, is shutting down. The company’s 50 or so employees will be laid off.
Source: CNBC, AP
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Fox’s Los Angeles KTTV-TV/KCOP-TV duopoly on Friday took a step toward possible companywide layoffs. A spokeswoman for the stations confirmed that 95 staffers on Friday were given 60-day layoff notices.
The notices may or may not be followed by layoffs, depending on whether the economic climate will improve in the next couple of months.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Adobe Systems Inc.’s (ADBE) fiscal second-quarter profit dropped 41% on lower sales and margins. Product sales, the bulk of Adobe’s revenue, declined 22%, while revenue from service and support slid 2.1%.
Earlier this year, Adobe also said it planned to cut around 600 jobs and undertake other cost-cutting measures to compensate for lower sales.
Source: WSJ
ESPN has notified about 100 employees in the state that they will be losing their jobs at Bristol, Connecticut.
Source: CNBC, AP
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MySpace has let go of as many as 45 employees in the last week, we’ve confirmed. Sources close to the company say that the exact figure may be smaller, but that MySpace has definitely laid off a significant number of people.
Source: TechCrunch
According to rumors, 20 newsroom-based Media Workers Guild employees at the San Francisco Chronicle are laid off Thursday, May 8.
Source: SFIst via TheMediaIsDying
WPP, the global advertising company, is to cut 7,200 jobs this year as the recession forces companies to slash their advertising costs, reports The Observer.
About half of this number has already been lost, with the rest expected to go by the end of 2009, said the newspaper citing sources close to the company.
Source: Reuters
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