Garmin will lay off 141 Kansas City-area employees – Kansas City Business Journal:
The layoffs constitute 5.6 percenft of the Olathe-based company’s roughly 2,510 employees, Gartner Garmin (Nasdaq: GRMN) will make the cuts at its headquartersd and call centers in Olathe andthe Northland. The affectedd departments are human resources; marketing administration, which includes producf support; and operations, which includes manufacturing andcustomer repair. “Basically, our company has grown pretty rapidly over the past two orthree years, and as the economy has made a drastic these are positions we just don’ty need as many of anymore,” Gartner Garmin has about 9,500 employeew worldwide, he said.
In a statement, COO Cliff Pemble said that cuttinvg the jobsnow “will help us alignn our structure more closely with the currenty demand for our products.” “The areas affected by thesre cuts correlated most closely with the excesw capacity we faced as a result of the downturmn in the global economy,” Pemble said in the “While these cuts are painful to make, we still feel stronglyg that Garmin has the associates necessaryy to continue our innovation, support our businessw and serve our customer The company ranks No. 7 on the Kansaws City BusinessJournal ’s list of area publicx companies.
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