Jobs cut as ES&S realigns business (YES that ES&S)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1208&u_sid=10239071

Published Wednesday | January 23, 2008
Jobs cut as ES&S realigns business
BY VIRGIL LARSON
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Election Systems & Software has cut 15 workers in Omaha in a business realignment that has resulted in 25 to 30 people losing their jobs companywide.

In all, 37 positions were cut, but the people holding some of them have moved to other jobs in the company. Some whose jobs were eliminated are still considering offers to stay with the company in other positions, company spokesman John Groh said Tuesday.

The company had 385 employees at the end of 2007, 200 of them in Omaha.

A big push to install new voting systems hardware across the country, required by federal law and aided with federal funds, is over, and ES&S is changing its business model to selling election support services to state and local governments, Groh said.

Sales of voting machines and other equipment have declined but there is now a need for services, such as laying out and printing ballots, hardware maintenance and election-day check-in tools, said Groh, the company's senior vice president of marketing.

The shift means a change in the types of jobs at ES&S, he said. In addition to the jobs eliminated, the company is not going to create some 30 new jobs that had been considered.

ES&S, which has its headquarters in Omaha, has annual revenue of more $100 million. Its systems, used in 46 states, have counted more than half the nationwide vote in the last four presidential elections.

The Omaha World-Herald Co. is a minority shareholder in ES&S.

[Jack Bone]

1. I find it very telling that...

"The Omaha World-Herald Co. is a minority shareholder in ES&S."

:scared:

Does the "The Omaha World-Herald Co." do any polling? even locally?

K&R!!

[DCKit]

2. And Premier marched 30% of their workforce out the door last week...

under guard. Think they see the writing on the wall folks?