Thread regarding Best Buy layoffs

Mostly partimers - 51,000 Furloughed at Best Buy

Let's hope it does not last too long...

Keeping benefits. Healthcare is the most important thing now.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/15/coronavirus-best-buy-to-furlough-about-51000-employees.html

  • Best Buy will furlough about 51,000 hourly employees, starting April 19, but they will continue to have health benefits.
  • The company’s stores are offering curbside pickup during the coronavirus pandemic, but they’ve been closed to customers since March 22.
  • Online sales in the U.S. are up more than 250% and about half of those sales are picked up at its stores.
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The amount is “20% of full timers” but it’s a case by case basis. No hard corporate numbers. These numbers include store, field, and support centers so that percent varies team to team. Some places are at 80% retention while others kept no one.

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What percentage are full timers?

Is this stores only?

How about corp people?

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