{"id":49725,"date":"2016-03-17T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T00:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49725"},"modified":"2016-03-17T18:07:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T01:07:53","slug":"burton-cuts-40-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49725","title":{"rendered":"Burton Cuts About 40 Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-47105 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/burton_logo-tm.jpg\" alt=\"burton_logo-tm.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"48\" \/>In what could be called the &#8220;Day before St. Paddy&#8217;s Day Massacre&#8221; the <strong>Burton Corporation<\/strong> reportedly cut 4 percent\u00a0of their 900 member global workforce\u00a0on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 according to a story on <a href=\"http:\/\/yobeat.com\/2016\/03\/17\/burton-reduces-global-workforce-by-4\/\"><strong>Yobeat.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burton President <strong>John Lacy<\/strong>\u00a0framed it this way in a memo to the company&#8217;s remaining employees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What that really means is that we had to let some good people go. Friends and colleagues were affected in every area of our business, and in multiple regions, and it isn\u2019t easy to say goodbye. We\u2019ve now talked directly with everyone affected by these changes, and our HR team is working with each of them to provide full service support during this transition. These decisions are not easy nor are they taken lightly. Please know we will be doing everything we can to help ensure these individuals have the tools and backing they need to take on this next chapter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the post cuts include\u00a0&#8220;multiple key sales roles, such as sales\u00a0director for Anon\/Analog, the women\u2019s brand manager and some product developers.&#8221;\u00a0We also hear the Burton LA store will be\u00a0closing soon and the NYC store will move\u00a0to a more economical location. For the entire letter from the president, please <a href=\"http:\/\/yobeat.com\/2016\/03\/17\/burton-reduces-global-workforce-by-4\/\"><strong>click the link to Yobeat<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/yobeat.com\/2016\/03\/17\/burton-reduces-global-workforce-by-4\/\">Yobeat<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could be called the &#8220;Day before St. Paddy&#8217;s Day Massacre&#8221; the Burton Corporation reportedly cut 4 percent\u00a0of their 900 member global workforce\u00a0on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 according to a story on Yobeat.com. Burton President John Lacy\u00a0framed it this way in a memo to the company&#8217;s remaining employees: What that really means is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49725"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49732,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49725\/revisions\/49732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}