Xerox: N.C. expansion will not affect Conn. jobs
Xerox is adding 600 jobs in North Carolina, after the state offered incentives of more than $12 million for a technology development center in Cary in the Research Triangle Park region.
N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper announced the expansion on Tuesday, saying the Xerox jobs average have an average salary of $112,000, as reported by the News & Observer.
A Xerox spokesperson told Hearst Connecticut Media no jobs in Connecticut are affected by the expansion. In 2016, former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy approved a $4.4 million package in 2016 for Xerox to maintain a workforce of at least 150 people at its Norwalk headquarters, with the possibility of adding up to 40 more.
The North Carolina deal comes four months after Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont visited those offices, then spoke for a half hour in early May with Xerox CEO John Visentin.
A Lamont spokesperson told Hearst Connecticut Media that the Xerox meetings were part of the governor’s campaign to meet with corporate leaders statewide to better assess how they view the state, and “reiterate how important they are to our state’s future” in his words.
Since billionaire investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason installed Visentin as CEO after a 2018 proxy battle for control of Xerox, the company has continued to cut jobs, including 4,500 on a net basis in the first half of this year through layoffs, attrition and the outsourcing of inhouse functions to Indiabased HCL.