Integrated DNA Technologies has laid off 61 employees at its Coralville location, according to a Workforce Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed Dec. 12.
Company officials confirmed the layoffs Dec. 9, stating 4.7% of its Iowa workforce would be impacted. Employees were notified the same day the layoffs took effect, according to the WARN log.
IDT declined to say what positions were affected, or if the layoffs extended to its other locations as well.
According to its website, the company employs more than 2,000 people across 11 global locations, which include Iowa, California, Colorado, North Carolina, Singapore, Japan, China, South Korea, Australia and Belgium. No layoffs for the company were reported in the most recent WARN logs for IDT’s three other state locations.
Current Iowa employment figures are not available, but the company’s LinkedIn page lists 820 associated members in Iowa, and a 2018 CBJ article on IDT’s acquisition from Danaher Corporation reported 770 workers in Coralville.
The layoffs occur two weeks before Christmas. Company officials said in a statement that employees received severance and support packages “consistent with company policy.”
“Integrated DNA Technologies has made the intentional decision to restructure parts of our business, which includes refocusing resources, to sustain future growth and support our long-term business objectives,” a company spokesperson emailed the CBJ last week. “These measured changes reflect IDT’s ongoing transformation as a global leader in genomics and positions our business capabilities to evolve with changing customer demands.”
IDT develops, manufactures, and markets nucleic acid (DNA) products that support the life sciences industry.
