Avaya plans to hire 60% of Nortel N.A. Enterprise workers
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Employees of the Nortel Enterprise business unit – including some in RTP - have been told that Avaya will hire 60 percent of the North American employees in that group.
Nortel declared Avaya the winner over a Siemens joint venture’s offer on Monday.
At that time, Joel Hackney, the head of the Nortel group, said Avaya would hire 75 percent of the nearly 8,000 people that work in Enterprise.
That figure includes 60 percent of the North American Enterprise employees, Nortel spokesperson Pat Cooper told Local Tech Wire and WRAL.com on Wednesday.
Nortel employs some of its 1,800 people in RTP in the Enterprise group.
The Enterprise group has a "major presence" in RTP as well as in Richardson, Texas, according to Cooper.
Nortel spokesperson Jay Barta said Nortel communicated to its employees the 60 percent figure.
CanWest News Service reported that Hackney said in “his communications with the employees” that the percentage “shrank to 60% of the workforce in most parts of the world. Avaya intends to hire all the employees in a Washington government-services operation and most European employees because of government rules regulating takeovers.”
Avaya spokesperson Gerard Carney told CanWest’s Bert Hill that the firm is “committed to retaining as many jobs as possible.”
(This story has been updated to point out that Nortel did communicate the 60 percent figure to its Enterprise employees.)
Copyright 2012 WRAL Tech Wire. All rights reserved.
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