Hanger layoffs
Forest R Sexton CPO
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Hanger layoffs
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Forest R Sexton CPO
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I have heard that Hanger is orchestrating a mass personnel reduction. This is
currently just rumor as far as I am concerned. Can anybody verify this one
way or another.
Word has it they have fired or laid off over 250 people nation wide. I am not
sure, but I think this is professional staff. I know of 7 practitioners in
the last mo. to 6 weeks personally. There have been 5 ABC certified
practitioners in Oregon alone. I may be wrong but I believe this represents
about one-third of their practitioner work force in OR.
This is devastating peoples lives. Is it happening nation wide as I have
heard? Is it based on profitability? Is there anything as an industry we can
do to help these people? If what I am hearing is true this is a crisis that
needs to be explored. How often does an entire industry find seven percent of
it's national work force unemployed?
Forest R Sexton CPO
currently just rumor as far as I am concerned. Can anybody verify this one
way or another.
Word has it they have fired or laid off over 250 people nation wide. I am not
sure, but I think this is professional staff. I know of 7 practitioners in
the last mo. to 6 weeks personally. There have been 5 ABC certified
practitioners in Oregon alone. I may be wrong but I believe this represents
about one-third of their practitioner work force in OR.
This is devastating peoples lives. Is it happening nation wide as I have
heard? Is it based on profitability? Is there anything as an industry we can
do to help these people? If what I am hearing is true this is a crisis that
needs to be explored. How often does an entire industry find seven percent of
it's national work force unemployed?
Forest R Sexton CPO
Citation
Forest R Sexton CPO, “Hanger layoffs,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/216100.
