WARN filed with the state (Texas)
Notice Received on: Mar 07, 2019
Company: Verizon Connect, Inc.
County: Travis
WDA: Capital Area WDA
Number of employees laid off: 133
Layoff date (start): Apr 23, 2019
Layoff date (end): Mar 08, 2019
City: Austin
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It had to do with Verizon connect being a sh--ty offering and now that it didn't perform they need to lay off the staff involved.
You just got 2.0'ed
The institutional ignorance of the posters on this topic amazes me. There is no reason to be in Austin.
@1wte nails it
It is a good thing that people on this board do not run companies. If you have a territory, then you can't be a national, much less, a global player. Secondly, wireless, for the most part, is still a consumer grade service. 5G, when it gets out of the playpen, will be better, but that is not going to happen for years. Both business and government are still major revenue generators for the telecom industry and it makes sense to have support for these major customers on as local of a basis as possible.
People forget Texas was a large market for f/XO....Dallas, Austin, Plano and Houston......large metro areas at one time....with lots of employees.
Then there is the whole Byron Nelson now sponsored by AT&T literally in the backyard of the Irving campus.
Ok so try to follow. If Verizon closed Austin due to it being AT&T territory then given AT&T Hq is a few miles from Irving and you can get AT&T at home around there then Irving is a lot more in their territory no?
Also Irving was going to be IT central and IT just got outsourced. There are a lot of former important buildings that Verizon is getting rid of. I mean our official NYC HQ is a Whole Foods and apartment building.
"If it did they should close Irving and all the other buildings in Texas."
What an id--t. Irving was the HQ of one of the predecessor companies mo--n. It is also an NFL city and major business hub. Austin is for left wing dope smoking and music and wasting other people's money on idle dreams.
The company has no connection to Austin. None. Time to consolidate where the business is and get rid of all of the Lowell BS, like Austin.
It had nothing to do with AT&T. If it did they should close Irving and all the other buildings in Texas. It had to do with closing up some VZ connect shops because VZ ruined it.
"Austin is AT&T territory"
most asinine comment of the year...
Austin is AT&T territory. We shouldn't even be there.
Old news
https://www.statesman.com/news/20190402/verizon-closing-austin-facility-laying-off-133-employees
How did it start in Apr and end in March?