Deluxe Corporation recently announced its plans to close the company’s call center in Phoenix and lay off about 175 employees. The Minneapolis-based company offers personalized blank checks and other products to consumers and businesses.

The company is closing its Phoenix location in an effort to take on more capacity at other offices throughout the country. Employees who are affected by the job cuts will have the chance to receive severance benefits and help finding other jobs.

With any luck, the job cuts won’t have a huge impact on the Phoenix area’s economy, which is continuing to recover well from the economic downturn. During December, the city’s unemployment rate decreased to 8.4 percent after staying at 8.5 percent for two months in a row.

The Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale area employed roughly 1,741,700 workers during December, which is up from 1,738,600 workers during November and a 1.7 percent jump from the previous year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Phoenix’s loss will be other cities’ gains, as Deluxe is planning to create more jobs in Greensboro, N.C.; Kansas City; and Antelope Valley, Calif. The company has yet to say how many jobs will be added, according to an article by the Phoenix Business Journal.

Web programs and data communications investigators work to rationalize, compose, tryout and check out web products, such for small community web, widespread district webs, internet, intranet, along with extra material communications systems.

On a day-to-day basis, such laborers are frequently answerable for completing web modelling, examination and provision; as well as doing exploration and notifying web and information communications hard ware and programs. Such employees too might supervise computer programmers.

Not exclusively are network product and information communications analysts over ariz. paid well, in accordance to to the Arizona Workforce Informer, but they also are able to count on several of work opportunities throughout the close future.

During 2007, the medium salary for web package and data information investigators in Arizona was $29.91 per hour, as the medium entry-level earnings was $18.67 per hour and the average long lasting-point fee was $35.53 per hour.

Employment is accepted to grow from 4,180 workers in 2006 to 6,375 people in 2016, accounting for 2,195 additional positions and a development rate of 52.5 percent.

The biggest industries that make use of network systems and data information investigators in ariz. encompass:

• Computer software design and same work
• Non-depositary credit mediation
• Semiconductor and electric components
• Drawing and engineering employment
• Security and commodity investiture affairs
• Electric shopping and send off-order houses
• Indemnity bureaus
• Power starters and supply
• Electronic items merchandizer whole retailers
• Not wireless telecommunications carriers
• Business backing agencies
• Trade companies
• Universities and colleges
• Ordinary health check and operative facilities
• News-paper, paperback and itemisation publishing businesses

The Texas Workforce Commission recently reported that Affiliated Computer Services Inc. has laid off 181 employees from one of its Houston facilities. This is a surprising move, as the company recently added 120 positions in Houston when local clients began seeing more business.

According to reports from the Houston Chronicle and Houston Business Journal, officials at the company, which performs outsourcing services for other companies, said the job cuts were “due to lack of work.”

About 101 of the positions eliminated were in telemarketing, while the remaining 73 were in customer care. All workers who lost their jobs will be offered 60 days of severance pay and benefits, as well as outplacement assistance.

The facility hit during this round of layoffs, which has long served as the company’s customer service and sales operation for an unnamed client, is one of four that Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services Inc. operates in Houston.

The company currently employs about 1,300 workers in the Houston area and 34,000 customer service agents in 150 call centers throughout the world.

During September, Xerox announced its plan to acquire Affiliated Computer Services Inc., creating a $22 billion global corporation.

The job cuts will most likely have a negative impact on the Houston area’s already-declining professional and business services industry.

That industry employed 366,900 workers during November, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down from 367,100 workers during October and a 4.5 percent decrease from last year.

However, the area’s overall economy remains strong. During November, the Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown area saw its unemployment rate decrease from 8.5 percent to 8.2 percent, which is lower than the national unemployment rate of 10 percent.

The area had a total non-farm employment of 2,534,900 workers during November, up from 2,525,600 workers during October, but a 3.4 percent decrease from last year.