Tight job market makes layoffs a little easier for high-tech workers

Colorado’s tight job market is good news to workers displaced by layoffs at local high-tech firms like Louisville’s MKE Quantum Components, Amgen’s Boulder plant, and the Eagle division of Exabyte Corp.

Exabyte terminated 70 people at its Eagle division on Jan. 14. Of those, 12 were offered administrative jobs, said Ginny Ilges, an Exabyte spokeswoman. About 20 in the Eagle division kept on to wrap up manufacturing pieces will be let go in April, Ilges said.

Another 60 administrative workers also were let go at the same time from Exabyte. Of the…