Even as Barnes & Noble continues to promise fixes to their botched website relaunch, the company is laying off what spokesperson Mary Ellen Keating called “less than 50 people” at their Westbury, Long Island IT office. Keating wrote to Newsday, “We have a very large IT department in Westbury that supports our stores and financial teams. We had some workforce reductions in specific areas of our IT Group in Westbury to streamline operations.” That facility apparently receives discounted electricity “under the state Power Authority’s ReCharge NY program, which is intended to retain jobs in the state.” Separately, Longtime booksellers Emily Russo and Josh Christie […]
