Layoffs

Local Governments Struggle Even As Private Sector Recovers

Though private sector employment shows signs of recovery, the National League of American Cities predicts 500,000 municipal workers will lose their jobs over the current and coming fiscal years. The Economist considers solutions.

23 November 2010 - 10:00am

The Economist

Layoffs Hurt Planning Efforts in California

Cities in California's Central Valley are looking at the economic downturn as an opportunity for planners to focus on long-range work. But layoffs in planning departments are making that hard to do.

22 June 2010 - 2:00pm

The Modesto Bee

Worcester County, MD Consolidates Planning Depts.

Due to economic hardship, the Worcester County, Maryland is proposing to consolidate 3 departments into 1, cutting 11 jobs out of 65, just as new codes are coming online. Environmentalists are concerned.

6 August 2009 - 9:00am

Center for Public Integrity

Struggling LA MOCA Lays Off Its Curator of Architecture and Design

LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced on May 19 that it was laying off Brooke Hodge, its curator of architecture and design.

2 June 2009 - 12:00pm

The Architect's Newspaper

Rick Abelson

Architecture's Big Bang

Sun, 03/01/2009 - 12:36

Architecture is certainly headed for its own version of the Big Bang. A density of firms are simmering with scarce backlog, delinquent collections, looming layoffs, high overhead, low morale as weakened management relies on a foggy stimulus package to forestall an explosion of great magnitude. After the inevitable, our profession will reconstitute based on a new chemistry.

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