{"id":1959,"date":"2008-05-17T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T18:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2014-04-08T12:15:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T19:15:38","slug":"quadrant-homes-to-cut-6-of-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/quadrant-homes-to-cut-6-of-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Quadrant Homes to Cut 6% of Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to KING 5, Quadrant homes announced some major layoffs yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The slowdown in home sales nationwide has now hit one of the largest home builders in Washington state in the form of layoffs.<\/p>\n

Quadrant Homes is cutting up to six percent of its workforce.<\/p>\n

In an e-mail to employees, Quadrant’s CEO announced a formal reduction in force, brought about by home deal cancellations approaching 50 percent, forcing a production cutback from seven houses a day to five.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Quadrant Homes<\/a> builds pretty much exclusively in the Puget Sound area, and is a division of local paper giant Weyerhaeuser. They’re the largest home builder in the Puget Sound.<\/p>\n

In other words, it’s impossible to lay the blame for this on anything other than the popping of the local<\/em> housing bubble.<\/p>\n

(Don Porter, KING 5 News<\/a>, 05.16.2008<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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