Xerox Corp. today laid off a number of its Webster campus workers as part of plans announced last year to cut its global work force by 2,500 positions.
The document and business services company would not give any details on numbers of people downsized or from what areas, saying only that they are not “significant numbers.”
“While there are positions being eliminated in Webster, we are continuing to hire in some areas and projects from other parts of the country are being consolidated in Webster,” company spokesman Bill McKee said.
As of the end of 2010, Xerox employed 6,800 people in the Rochester region and 136,500 worldwide.
The job cuts are part of $273 million the company spent on restructuring in the fourth quarter of 2010.
In a conference call with Wall Street analysts last month, Chief Financial Officer Larry Zimmerman said restructuring is occurring in part because Xerox is outsourcing some of its own back-office functions to its business process operation ACS. The cuts also are to serve as a buffer against currency and economic issues the company faces.
Beyond that previously announced restructuring, he said, the company does not anticipate “any further significant restructuring” this year.
MDANEMAN@DemocratandChronicle.com
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