Last Thursday Tele Atlas met with employees to announce that the role of the Lebanon office will change;it will be a pilot facility that tests tools and technologies used worldwide in map production. Employees also learned the company expected to lay off about 140 employees in North America with 120 coming from Lebanon. Reports indicate that no layoffs have yet occurred,so this may be an “update”to news of layoffs that appeared in December.
The change in focus for the facility is quite a change. It suggests to me that much of the map updating,done at some times by three shifts a day,may be done elsewhere.
- WMUR-TV