This is good news for the community there!
https://www.nccommerce.com/news/press-releases/governor-cooper-announces-600-new-jobs-xerox-selects-wake-county-new-center
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It is certainly the Xerox style of old to have a net benefit but I do feel everyone has been a bit OTT when it comes to this particular venture. Of course that is never going to be a popular opinion.
From the New Haven (CT) Register...
Cary will not impact HQ's headcount in Connecticut, which is no surprise. I heard that many of the top-level hires were lured to Norwalk for the promise to live close to NYC with senior executives moving to Stamford and executives with families moving to Greenwich, Westport, Dairen, etc. (for Rochester folks who are not familiar with SW CT, these towns are like Pittsford on roids). They have no interest moving to a 'backwoods' location like Cary.
Xerox: No CT jobs impacted by North Carolina expansion
By Alexander Soule and Emilie Munson
New Haven Register
Updated 5:23 pm EDT, Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Xerox is adding 600 jobs in North Carolina, after the state offered incentives of more than $12 million for a technology development center in Cary in the Research Triangle Park region.
Gov. Roy Cooper announced the expansion on Tuesday, saying the Xerox jobs average have an average salary of $112,000, as reported by the News & Observer.
A Xerox spokesperson told Hearst Connecticut Media no jobs in Connecticut are impacted by the expansion. In 2016, former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy approved a $4.4 million package in 2016 for Xerox to maintain a workforce of at least 150 people at its Norwalk headquarters, with the possibility of adding up to 40 more.
The North Carolina deal comes four months after Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont visited those offices, then spoke for a half hour in early May with Xerox CEO John Visentin. A Lamont spokesperson told Hearst Connecticut Media that the Xerox meetings were part of the governor’s campaign to meet with corporate leaders statewide to better assess how they view the state, and “reiterate how important they are to our state’s future” in his words.
Since billionaire investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason installed Visentin as CEO after a 2018 proxy battle for control of Xerox, the company has continued to cut jobs, including 4,500 on a net basis in the first half of this year through layoffs, attrition and the outsourcing of in-house functions to India-based HCL.
To whoever said fake news, here are some other sources. It isn’t Fox or Breitbart so you may not believe it anyway. But here it is.
https://abc11.com/business/xerox-creating-600-jobs-in-cary/5465026/
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2019/08/13/xerox-tobring-hundreds-of-jobs-to-wake-county.html
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article233949962.html
https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/08/13/xerox-bringing-600-jobs-to-cary/
Here is one from a Fox affiliate and Sinclaire broadcast group outlet, somethin the fake newsies will have to accept:
http://13wham.com/news/local/xeroxs-latest-tech-center-600-jobs-coming-to-north-carolina
Cheap labor has won out again over loyal dedicated workers....Xerox on the cheap!
What a joke and fake news
Don't worry, ican't and crew will outsource those jobs in a year after they get the state, county and local governments to bend over and take so many concessions the taxpayers will be paying ican't directly.
600 jobs to be annihilated in Webster and stood up down south.
See the thread below.
These are not new jobs. These jobs will be eliminated from Rochester and shifted to NC.
May be good for NC, but not good for anybody else. They're just trying to find newer/cheaper labor to continue cost cutting....