Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Well it’s been 18 months since the last great hiring frenzy that Samsung went through in the AV and digital signage industry and so it’s about that time, that many, if not all of them were laid off. News is filtering in that between 18 and 20 people have just been let go – Jeremy Kolieb (who had such a nice / cosy gig at Westfield) has definitely gone.
Normally we have sympathy with those laid off but in this instance, as it’s well known that Samsung buy up competitor’s employees, subsume their rolodex and then ditch them, they (said employees) should have known better and we can only say they have likely got what they deserved.
The layoffs may in fact be well timed – as all those ex-consultants and Samsung’s (display) competitors who took the Korean Won, can now walk the floor in Lost Wages next week at #dse2015 looking for their next sinecure.
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