CompuCom To Cut 144 Texas Employees In March

Systems integration powerhouse CompuCom told Texas authorities that it would be laying off 144 workers at its Plano facility on March 6.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice was filed Jan. 4, less than a month after the $1.9 billion company, No. 23 on the CRN Solution Provider 500, announced it would be moving its corporate headquarters from Plano to South Carolina.

CompuCom Chief Marketing Officer Jonathan James told CRN that the layoffs weren't connected to the corporate relocation but were, instead, the result of CompuCom shifting service desk operations from Plano to offices in Louisville, Ky., Mexico City and Ontario, Canada.

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Workers were notified about the service desk operations reorganization in mid-2016 and a majority of the affected employees are no longer with the company, James said, as first reported by The Dallas Morning News. More than 350 of CompuCom's 11,500 global employees are currently working out of Plano.

Plano will remain home to a couple of hundred CompuCom jobs, its cloud technology group and network operations center (NOC), and the company's chief legal counsel and head of its cloud technology services group, James told CRN last month. CompuCom recently signed a seven-year lease for its Plano site, and James told CRN last month that the company would not be moving any new jobs from Texas.

CompuCom's relocation to South Carolina is expected to create more than 1,500 corporate and contact center jobs in the Charlotte, N.C. suburbs, James told CRN last month. Bringing CompuCom's product and service development teams together in Indian Land, S.C. will allow them to work more closely with one another and CompuCom's senior leadership, James said at the time.

CompuCom's contact center employees are spread across Texas; Louisville, Ky.; and Charlotte, the company said.

Moving to the South Carolina will put CompuCom closer to many of its clients in the retail, financial services, healthcare and insurance verticals, James told CRN last month. The South Carolina hires will mostly be in newly-created roles across the field technician, service desk personnel and functional role support domains, James said.

CompuCom promoted Dan Stone, the leader of its end-user enablement division, to CEO in early December. Before joining CompuCom, Stone had spent eight years as an executive at Lenovo, which has its U.S. headquarters near Raleigh-Durham, N.C.