Fast Search To Fire 148 Employees
Aug 17, 2007 at 8:28am ET by Barry Schwartz
Fast Search & Transfer lets go of 148 employees from Pandia reports that Fast Search and Transfer will be letting 148 employees go this year.
The employees who are being fired are reportedly being compensated for the downsizing. Fast Search & Transfer have reportedly hired 400 employees in 2006 and 2007. The company’s CEO, John Markus Lervik, feels the downsizing will help the company improve their overall bottom-line.
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Are these soon-to-be-fired’s SEO’s? If so, that sounds like a whole lot of future bloggers and entrepreneurs to me.
“The company’s CEO, John Markus Lervik, feels the downsizing will help the company improve their overall bottom-line.”
Gee, you think? – I guess that’s what makes him CEO.