Expo Center lays off half of sales staff
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Half of the sales staff at the Bayside Expo &amp; Executive Conference Center, a private meeting hall on the Dorchester waterfront, got pink slips last week, leaving the center with just two employees in charge of generating business.
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Eons Inc., a 14-month-old website catering to aging baby boomers, has laid off two dozen employees - more than a third of the staff at its Boston headquarters - in its second cutback this year.
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Nortel Networks Corp. will lay off approximately 1,400 employees in the U.S. and about 950 in Canada, with those employees to be notified by the end of June 2005, the network equipment vendor said in a regulatory filing Thursday that fleshed out earlier announcements of the coming layoffs.
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The closings of the Huronia, Rideau and Southwestern Regional Centres in Orillia, Smith Falls and Chatham will mean 2,200 lost jobs in the centres and moving 1,000 people from institutions to community settings such as group homes.
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Americas overhaul underway Exclusive David Booth, one of HP's top sales executives, has left the company, The Register has learned.â¦
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Internet gaming group BETonSPORTS  , which removed its chief executive from his job  following his detention in Texas last month on racketeering  charges, said on Friday it was closing down the U.S. business,  which drives the vast majority of the company's profits.
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General Electric Co.'s  WMC Mortgage unit is laying off 460 staffers across the United States, representing about 20 percent of its work force, spokeswoman Brandie Young said on Friday.
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Telecommunications equipment maker Agere Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will lay off 500 employees, or 7.6 per cent of its workforce, as part of a corporate restructuring.
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The electric car company rids itself of employees amid shakeup.
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Nortel Networks Corp. will lay off approximately 1,400 employees in the US and about 950 in Canada, with those employees to be notified by the end of June 2005, the network equipment vendor said in a regulatory
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The retailer said it will reduce the number of new supercenters to be opened this year by nearly 30 percent, or roughly 75 stores.
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The staff at WBIX-AM became the latest casualties of station owner and accused embezzler Bradford C. Bleidt yesterday when they were laid off by the station's new controllers, who canceled its all-business format in a bid to increase WBIX's profitability.
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.
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Koch Entertainment Distribution, the largest independent record distributor in the country, laid off its entire field marketing staff late last week, eliminating 20 jobs, according to sources.
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The new owners of music label EMI Group Â home of the Rolling Stones, Coldplay and the Spice Girls Â said Tuesday that they plan to cut up to 2,000 jobs, or just over a third of its work force, in a restructuring aimed at offsetting the impact of falling revenue from CD sales and the departure of several of its major artists.
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Home Depot Inc , the world's top home improvement retailer, said on Thursday it will cut 500 jobs at its Atlanta store support center, or about 10 percent of the headquarters staff.
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In response to an increasingly difficult retail environment, Sprint Nextel says about 4,000 employees will be laid off and about one out of every eight retail stores will close.