The notion of "the positions eliminated were predominantly _fashion buyers_, who most likely were watching fashion shows and aspiring fashion makers on YouTube because travel budgets had been cut that same year."
Would be interesting, but I wonder at sources. An outcry of justification of said-Youtube viewing would probably have been heard or referenced.
The main references in articles are "back office support," corporate, and cashiers:
This article continues the theme (that you will find on most articles) of the YouTube volume [1]
Kramer shared an example: There were 4,800 employees at the HQ in January 2012, and in one month they had watched five million YouTube videos during work hours. He said that 35 percent of bandwidth at HQ was used for "loafing off."
One big consequence was the culling of staff. Now, a little more than a year later, 1,600 of those workers have been sent packing.
Jan, 2013
The moves will eliminate about 5,000 department-store jobs, 300 more at headquarters and regional offices and 265 Eckerd positions — all told, less than 2 percent of the company's work force of 290,000. [2]
The latest job cuts were concentrated in about 100 stores where sales fell the most, and the eliminations hit back office positions. A Penney spokeswoman said none of the cuts affected staff who deal with customers. [3]
March, 2013 [4]
J.C. Penney Co. (JCP) is cutting an additional 2,200 jobs to trim costs as Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson’s revamp of the department-store chain causes sales to plunge.
The positions to be eliminated include back-office administrators in stores and district offices as well as store leadership positions, Joey Thomas, a spokesman, said in an e- mail yesterday. About 10 percent of J.C. Penney’s 1,100 stores cut their headcounts because of sales volume shifts, he said.
Johnson said last week that 19,000 J.C. Penney employees have lost their jobs in the past year as his turnaround struggles to gain traction.*
Would be interesting, but I wonder at sources. An outcry of justification of said-Youtube viewing would probably have been heard or referenced.
The main references in articles are "back office support," corporate, and cashiers:
This article continues the theme (that you will find on most articles) of the YouTube volume [1]
Kramer shared an example: There were 4,800 employees at the HQ in January 2012, and in one month they had watched five million YouTube videos during work hours. He said that 35 percent of bandwidth at HQ was used for "loafing off." One big consequence was the culling of staff. Now, a little more than a year later, 1,600 of those workers have been sent packing.
Jan, 2013 The moves will eliminate about 5,000 department-store jobs, 300 more at headquarters and regional offices and 265 Eckerd positions — all told, less than 2 percent of the company's work force of 290,000. [2]
The latest job cuts were concentrated in about 100 stores where sales fell the most, and the eliminations hit back office positions. A Penney spokeswoman said none of the cuts affected staff who deal with customers. [3]
March, 2013 [4] J.C. Penney Co. (JCP) is cutting an additional 2,200 jobs to trim costs as Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson’s revamp of the department-store chain causes sales to plunge.
The positions to be eliminated include back-office administrators in stores and district offices as well as store leadership positions, Joey Thomas, a spokesman, said in an e- mail yesterday. About 10 percent of J.C. Penney’s 1,100 stores cut their headcounts because of sales volume shifts, he said.
Johnson said last week that 19,000 J.C. Penney employees have lost their jobs in the past year as his turnaround struggles to gain traction.*
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/jcpenney-coo-michael-kramer-c...
[2] http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=88710&page=1#.UW...
[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/07/jc-penney-layoffs-s...
[4] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-07/j-c-penney-cutting-...