{"id":3546,"date":"2008-12-01T14:30:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T22:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2008-12-01T14:30:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T22:30:53","slug":"official-wamu-layoff-count-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/official-wamu-layoff-count-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Official WaMu Layoff Count Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 0pt 5px 5px; float: right; font-size: 85%; text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/wamu-tower.jpg\" title=\"WaMu Tower\" rel=\"lightbox[3546]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/wamu-tower-tn.jpg\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 0;\" title=\"WaMu Tower\" alt=\"WaMu Tower\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>Photo by The Tim<\/div>\n<p>The official layoff count for WaMu was made public today.  According to various news sources, JPMorgan Chase will be cutting 3,400 jobs in Seattle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>JPMorgan Chase is laying off 3,400 Washington Mutual employees in Seattle, according to spokesman Tom Kelly. That&#8217;s more than 80 percent of the 4,300 people it employs in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Most branch workers will keep their jobs, however.<\/p>\n<p>WaMu&#8217;s former headquarters city is taking the brunt of the 9,200 WaMu layoffs that JPMorgan is making nationwide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is even more than the estimates we heard <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/seattle-times-jpm-to-cut-70-of-wamu-hq-employees\/\" title=\"Seattle Times: JPM to Cut ~70% of WaMu HQ Employees\">just a few weeks ago<\/a>, when anonymous WaMu executives were cited in a Times report that said &#8220;as many as 3,000 of WaMu\u2019s 4,200 workers in Seattle could lose their jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately it sounds like those that are losing their jobs are at least being given pretty nice severance packages, and many will have lots of time to find new jobs.  It still hurts to lose a job though, and I sincerely hope that those affected by the massive bank failure are able to keep on their feet through these difficult economic times.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Melissa Allison, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2008455813_webwamu01.html\" title=\"JPMorgan cutting 3,400 Seattle jobs\">Seattle Times<\/a>, 12.01.2008<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by The Tim The official layoff count for WaMu was made public today. According to various news sources, JPMorgan Chase will be cutting 3,400 jobs in Seattle. JPMorgan Chase is laying off 3,400 Washington Mutual employees in Seattle, according to spokesman Tom Kelly. That&#8217;s more than 80 percent of the 4,300 people it employs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[198],"tags":[305,367,443,326,111],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-banks","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-jpmorgan","tag-layoffs","tag-wamu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Official WaMu Layoff Count Announced \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/official-wamu-layoff-count-announced\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Official WaMu Layoff Count Announced \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Photo by The Tim The official layoff count for WaMu was made public today. 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