International and Comparative Librarianship

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Saturday, February 17, 2018

Barnes & Noble is killing itself, John Biggs TechCrunch


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 "On Monday the company laid off 1,800 people. This offered a cost savings of $40 million. But that’s particularly interesting. That means each of those people made an average of $22,000 or so per year and minimum wage workers – hourly folks who are usually hit hardest during post-holiday downturns – would be making $15,000. In fact, what B&N did was fire all full time employees at 781 stores." continue reading

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