Sun Microsystems Inc.’s latest round of layoffs will put 227 of its Denver metro-area workers of jobs by early April, according a notification the company sent to state officials Thursday.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based computer networking and software company said in November it planned to trim its work force by between 15 percent and 18 percent by late 2009, eliminating as many as 6,000 jobs worldwide.
Since then, it has been unclear how the cutbacks would affect its various campuses or when they would take place.
Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA) filed notices Thursday with labor officials in states where Sun has offices, saying it had identified 1,300 jobs nationwide it is cutting in the next three months.
In January, Sun is eliminating 32 jobs at its Broomfield campus, the company said, according to Bill Thoennes, spokesman for the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. Most of those workers have already been let go or notified their job will end by month’s end.
Another 195 jobs will be cut at the Sun site off U.S. 36 in rounds of layoffs planned in late March and early April, Sun’s notification said.
The cutbacks appear to have reduced the Sun work force in Broomfield to about 2,250 people. That’s down from a high of 4,700 employees immediately after it bought Storage Technology Corp. in Louisville in mid-2005.
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