McLean’s Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) has issued yet another round of a layoffs, this time affecting 44 employees in mostly back-office roles.
It appears to be the media company’s third round of cuts in the past seven months, after it eliminated 400 jobs in August and began laying off roughly 6% of reporters and other staffers in its U.S. media division in the final months of last year.
Gannett disclosed the cuts in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the Virginia Employment Commission earlier this month. A Gannett spokesperson confirmed the layoffs in an email to the Washington Business Journal, specifying that the 44 affected employees were part of the firm’s information technology support team.
“While incredibly difficult, we have implemented efficiencies across the company and outsourced some of our IT support,” Vincent Cirel, Gannett’s chief technology officer said in a statement shared with WBJ. He added, however, that “many of these employees…
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