Lansdowne's National Conference Center lays off 65 - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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The decision came as a result of fall which are about 25 percent below according to General ManagerKurt Krause. “Wer just don’t have the hours to give Krause said. Notices were delivered June 5, giviny terminated employees 60 days’ notice. The move reducee the center’s work force to 210. Krausse said the slowed business is due to currenteconomicc conditions; the Lansdowne facility focuses on corporated training rather than events such as weddings or leisur travel. It has 265,000 square feet of meetingv space and 917 guest rooms and boasts the largest ballroomn inNorthern Virginia.
The layoffs spanned all departmentzs from housekeeping to the banquet staff and were not regulatecd to oneparticular area. There are not plan to close the facility. Management will re-evaluate this Octobere or November whether additional positions mustbe eliminated. Krause said employeesz have been meeting monthly for updates on the states ofthe business, so the layoff s may not have been a big “The No. 1 question wasn’g so much an attack back at us, but was, ‘Ig business comes back, will you call me?’ ” he The center, formerly known as the Xerox Documenty University, is owned by and managed by Harrison Lodging.