Xerox Corp. said Tuesday it will lay off 2,500 workers by the end of the year, but company officials said they do not know how many of those jobs will be lost in the Rochester area.
Xerox has about 146,000 employees worldwide, including about 6,200 in the Rochester area.
The layoffs will include workers “mainly in the services side of the business,” said Karen Arena, a Xerox spokeswoman.
“We’re not breaking it down any further than that,” she said.
“We’re not going to be making any more formal announcements. I’m sure the managers will be talking to the affected people during the fourth quarter,” she said.
Most of the Xerox workers in the Rochester area — especially at the manufacturing campus in Webster — are on the technology side of the company, not the services side. So that may indicate that this area won’t be hit too hard by the layoffs.
BLOUDON@DemocratandChronicle.com
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