More layoffs are coming to Research Triangle Park — from two very different places.
On Tuesday, Chinese manufacturer Lenovo — a major employer in North Carolina and the Triangle — confirmed it is laying off 3% of its U.S. workforce, including an unspecified number of employees at its campus in Morrisville. Lenovo’s presence in North Carolina is larger than in any other state.
This week, the National Institutes of Health also confirmed that RTP employees are part of their latest round of layoffs, which comes after a Supreme Court ruling that authorized further federal cuts — part of the Trump administration’s efforts to scale back funding. The NIH’s Environmental Health Sciences campus is in the park — its only campus outside Washington…