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Via the Newark Star-Ledger , Avaya is laying off 400 people, after also eliminating 600 positions via attrition since the start of the year. Earlier this year, Nortel and Siemens had both announced layoffs of more than 2,000 workers each.

Eric Krapf

May 22, 2008

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Via the Newark Star-Ledger, Avaya is laying off 400 people, after also eliminating 600 positions via attrition since the start of the year. Earlier this year, Nortel and Siemens had both announced layoffs of more than 2,000 workers each.

Via the Newark Star-Ledger, Avaya is laying off 400 people, after also eliminating 600 positions via attrition since the start of the year. Earlier this year, Nortel and Siemens had both announced layoffs of more than 2,000 workers each.Avaya spokesperson Deb Kline told me the company's action was part of continuing process of streamlining as Avaya focuses on Unified Communications and contact centers, though the layoffs aren't focused in any particular geography, technology or job type.

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Eric Krapf

Eric Krapf is General Manager and Program Co-Chair for Enterprise Connect, the leading conference/exhibition and online events brand in the enterprise communications industry. He has been Enterprise Connect.s Program Co-Chair for over a decade. He is also publisher of No Jitter, the Enterprise Connect community.s daily news and analysis website.
 

Eric served as editor of No Jitter from its founding in 2007 until taking over as publisher in 2015. From 1996 to 2004, Eric was managing editor of Business Communications Review (BCR) magazine, and from 2004 to 2007, he was the magazine's editor. BCR was a highly respected journal of the business technology and communications industry.
 

Before coming to BCR, he was managing editor and senior editor of America's Network magazine, covering the public telecommunications industry. Prior to working in high-tech journalism, he was a reporter and editor at newspapers in Connecticut and Texas.