Internet provider lays off 41 in Centennial - BusinessDen

Starry, a Boston-based wireless location net provider, has laid disconnected 41 employees astatine its Centennial warehouse arsenic portion of drastic occupation cuts companywide.

Starry fto the state’s labour section and the politician of Centennial cognize astir the cuts successful a missive Tuesday, arsenic required by law. It said the layoffs occurred Oct. 21.

Technical unit — specified arsenic installers, operation workers and engineers — made up the bulk of layoffs. Seven selling employees besides mislaid their jobs.

Employees were fixed 2 weeks of severance wage and assurance that Starry would wage their security premiums for the adjacent 2 months, according to the company’s letter.

“Like truthful galore different companies, we are making the pugnacious calls present and taking steps that volition let america to absorption connected financing the concern implicit the agelong word and proceed increasing crossed our existent markets,” Starry CEO Chet Kanojia wrote successful a blog post past week.

“Let maine beryllium clear: Starry is unfastened for concern and laser-focused connected continuing to service our customers and thrust our ngo forward,” Kanojia added.

In a property release, the institution said it is laying disconnected fractional of its workers nationwide, freezing hiring and putting enlargement plans connected clasp during an “extremely hard economical climate.”

Starry launched successful 2016 with bold plans for taking connected the ample corporations that predominate the net market. It arrived successful Denver successful 2019 and signed a woody with the Denver Housing Authority that twelvemonth to connection $15-per-month work to low-income Denverites.

Starry’s web tin service six cardinal customers successful its six work cities but the institution lone has 91,000 customers nationwide, according to a third-quarter report.

A spokeswoman for Starry referred BusinessDen to Kanojia’s blog station and the company’s third-quarter property release. She declined to remark further connected the layoffs.