eBay to Shut Down Vancouver Facility
May 6, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Business
Currently, eBay has approximately 700 customer support employees in the Canadian city of Vancouver. On Tuesday, eBay announced that they will be closing that Vancouver facility. Those 700 employees are expected to be out of work by September 30th.
eBay Sign (Image: Flickr)
At the same time that eBay announced the Vancouver closing, they said that a similar facility that operates out of Salt Lake City, Utah will be expanded. At this point, around 1,000 customer support employees work for eBay in Salt Lake City.
Despite the customer support firing, the company says that the customer service aspect of their businesses won’t be negatively affected. Not only does eBay own the auction website eBay.com, the company also owns other popular services such as Skype and PayPal.
In recent months, eBay has been making moves to alter their business model. They’ve decided to limit their focus as a company to try to increase profits. There have also been a number of laid off eBay workers in the last year.
