Xerox’s Webster campus. Credit: Democrat & Chronicle
Further 123 lay-offs to be made by the OEM in Webster, New York, following 468 job cuts in Texas.
Democrat & Chronicle reported that the 123 jobs will be cut “by mid-November” following Xerox’s decision to close its facilities maintenance operations in Webster and outsource the work to Chicago-based commercial real estate services company JLL; with the affected jobs “related to providing maintenance and cleaning” for the OEM’s Webster R&D and manufacturing campus.
The announcement was indicated in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice filed with the state Labour Department; with the company stating that the facilities maintenance operations closure “is a business decision based on our global strategy of exiting non-core activities”.
The Recycler reported recently that Xerox cut 468 jobs from its call centre in Houston, Texas “as a result of a change in business conditions” for one of its clients; although the OEM also announced the creation of 100 jobs at a call centre for one of its healthcare clients in Moosic, Pennsylvania.
Xerox’s Webster campus is “its single largest manufacturing site” and the company is “the area’s fourth largest employer and its largest manufacturer, employing around 6,300 people locally. Xerox spokesman Robert Wagner reportedly said that laid-off employees will have the opportunity to apply for positions with JLL “and it is expected that a good number of the employees will be offered job opportunities”.