Corbis Laying Off Another 125 Employees
By Ryan • Nov 15th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives), Photography By Daryl Lang of PDNonline.com:
“Stock photo agency Corbis plans to eliminate 125 jobs and close offices in eight markets in the first half of 2008, the company announced Wednesday. Among the casualties are Corbis’s Chicago office.
The reductions are part of a plan to consolidate customer service and sales operations into two major centers, one in New York and another in London.
A Corbis spokesperson says the company will close eight of its 24 offices by June 2008. Offices are closing in Amsterdam, Brussels, Hamburg, Madrid, Chicago, Montreal, Melbourne and Singapore.
Corbis will maintain salespeople who work from home in these markets, as well as several others including San Francisco, Atlanta and Dallas. “In broad terms, our geographic reach is expanding,” says Ivan Purdie, Corbis’s senior vice president, sales and service.
The layoffs are related to the office closings and affect a variety of geographic locations, Purdie says.”
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