After the layoffs of 30 staff members at Emerson College in August, Emerson IT employee Steve Bohrer took a walk on the beach with his wife, former Emerson employee Estelle Ticktin. The two were seeking reprieve amid the chaos of his department going into overdrive from losing employees. On the phone with The Beacon four days later, he recalled the moment in August when he found out that one of his coworkers would not be with the college come fall.
“She was a friend. We rode the train together sometimes, and then she was just gone,” Bohrer said. “People are just disappeared.”
In August, Emerson College laid off 30 staff members due to “budget reductions,” which they attributed to falling revenue and declining enrollment for the second year in a row…