After purging 3 Sales middle management and one key sales engineer in Boston, Perkin Elmer in its infinite wisdom is going to reorganize the sales force again and hire about 7 new (cheaper I am sure) Sales Engineers. Expanding the Food Sales Team... —  read more 

it looks like there will be more than 30 redundancies on the Turku site in Finland there were about 50 in Shelton, and about 100 in total in the US, CA and in recent months Reposted from a reply in another thread on top for important info. The... —  read more 

In an attempt to save cash as sales are down, Perkin Elmer has purged a number of Training and Support folks on Aug 20, 2019. Many of these folks were employees with more than 30 years of experience and knowledge. This after a small purge and a... —  read more 

Nope! 13 year employee in sales leadership just laid off by the saddest group of executives we’ve ever had. I haven't heard of any layoffs at PE lately - do you mind providing some more info on this? When exactly did it happen, what was affected?... —  read more 

Should I infer that things have never been better at PE? Hmmm

Just 11-18-2015 Juts before the holidays, the let go 188 people, mostly management. I can not believe the talent they let go though. Not sure how we can do without some of these long time employees. All from the Environmental side. Some say this was... —  read more 

140-180 layoffs globally yesterday, a lot of management- VP level (again) laid off. Americas hit badly- a lot of experienced talented people from R&D, Sales training, Product management and applications

I heard that there might be some layoffs internally, we might be streamlining finance and IT functions as well as some other internal stuff. You never know with PerkinElmer, but hey wanted to share what I know

Heard rumors, is it true?

I heard that some units might be decimated later this year. It looks like 2014 will be brutal and 2015 will even worse

K.H left for personal reasons....hahaha...typical corporate bullshit It was about time they kick him out, the damage's done is extensive with a lot of PE sites now closed and lots of layoffs. R.F. should also get the boot for letting this walking... —  read more 

Yup, they had their layoff. It was over time and actually over 100, once all was said and done.

@"Anonymous , Friday 2/01/13 3:45 AM" - what makes you say so - my experience is different

Typical company where managers like dancing subordinates. Each crab trying to pull other crabs down.

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I heard some rumors back in September of 2012 - the word on the street was that 100s will be laid off - has this ever materialized? I always saw Perkin Elmer as a great company that had bright future, have you guys hit a rough patch.