Agilent Technologies, the Santa Clara, CA-based maker of instruments for electronics and life sciences companies, is cutting 120 jobs at a plant in Liberty Lake, WA near Spokane, according to a filing with the state Employment Security Department. The layoffs are effective Jan. 30. Agilent (NYSE: [[ticker:A]]) announced on Dec. 17 it was cutting 500 full-time workers and 300 temporary positions. It has almost 20,000 employees worldwide.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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