Local Reed Elsevier and LexisNexis business units:
- LexisNexis Legal & Professional
- Reed Elsevier Technology Services organization
- Elsevier
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions
- Reed Elsevier corporate functions
Source: LexisNexis
One of the Dayton area’s largest employers had little to say Monday about an online report that it is laying off hundreds of employees.
But the employer, LexisNexis, reiterated a commitment to its local presence, saying its area workforce remains at an all-time high and the company is advertising local job openings.
Law.com, the website for Law Technology News, reported that LexisNexis is laying off about 500 employees in several locations.
Paraphrasing unnamed sources, the website said layoffs were “significantly larger than the usual July realignments at the company.” The site put the layoffs in Dayton (Miami Twp.), New York, Philadelphia and Charlottesville, Va.
In response, LexisNexis released a statement acknowledging that it does move employees around.
“On balance, the total number of employees across the LexisNexis business remains consistent with prior years,” Marc Osborn, a LexisNexis spokesman, said in the statement.
Osborn added: “Regarding Dayton, our company has a long history of operations and innovation in Ohio. The Dayton, Ohio site continues to be the largest Reed Elsevier and LexisNexis site globally. We remain committed to our flagship facility in Dayton and LexisNexis is making tremendous investments in our business and technology in Dayton with our New Lexis initiatives, which include the Lexis Advance product, among others.”
Osborn declined to make company officials available for an interview. The company has about 3,400 employees in Miami Twp. and four business units are based there.
LexisNexis told the Dayton Daily News last year that the Miami Twp. location is its largest in number of employees. At the time Alex Watson, LexisNexis executive vice president of operations, said the site’s “overall employment level” will remain steady.
On Friday, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services released a report on job openings posted online. For June, LexisNexis had 122 jobs openings, the second-largest number of openings for employers in the Dayton and Western Ohio area, according to the department.
The number of LexisNexis job openings was second only to the 354 at Kettering Health Network, the report said.
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