Jeff Hoagland, president and chief executive of the Dayton Development Coalition, told the Dayton Daily News today that he spoke to a LexisNexis official after seeing the newspaper’s story on the job moves.
“I talked to them about the announcement we were hearing from people like you and others and we were told this is not new information,” Hoagland said. “The announcement that came out about three weeks ago and the announcement from 2013 is the information they talked about and there is nothing additional to report.”
In December the company refused to confirm reports of layoffs but did say in a statement that the company routinely reviews resources worldwide and “build teams in certain areas of the business and reduce in others.”
Hoagland was referring to those reports of layoffs, said Shannon Joyce Neal, spokeswoman for the coalition.
In September 2013 LexisNexis announced it would move jobs from Cary, North Carolina, to Raleigh, North Carolina, where it would open a headquarters for the law software and other product and technology groups within the company.
There was no mention made of Dayton in that news release.
“Our understanding is that the word about jobs being lost to (North Carolina) is nothing new, it was announced in 2013,” Hoagland said.
“To me, that would be the goal, is if we are going to lose a few jobs to North Carolina how can we gain other jobs if it is in the customer service side of things or in other areas,” he said.
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