Within days of Intel announcing plans to lay off hundreds of Washington County employees, that number has shot up nearly fivefold.
The California-based chipmaker issued a revised notice Friday, July 11, to clarify that it will cut 2,392 jobs instead of an initially expected 529 across its four campuses, three of which are in Hillsboro. The breakdown comes out to 1,521 positions eliminated from the Ronler Acres campus, 519 from Jones Farm, 192 from the Aloha campus and 160 from Hawthorn Farm — ranking among the largest mass layoffs in Oregon history and a significant blow to the region’s semiconductor industry.
First separations are scheduled to take place during a two-week period starting July 15. According to Intel, all impacted employees were either notified at least 60 days ahead of the layoffs or given four weeks’ notice along with nine weeks of pay and benefits…