Big technology firms all quiet on jobs front

Northern Colorado’s large technology employers have been largely silent on the jobs front during the past year, and that has meant different things for different companies.

Agilent Technologies completed a company-wide restructuring late in 2009. The company originally announced in March 2009 its plans to cut 2,700 positions worldwide, a majority from the Electronic Measurement and Semiconductor Board Test segments. Combined with an earlier restructuring, the total cuts amounted to 3,800 trimmed largely by the end of its fiscal year 2009.

At the time, few details were available about the impact on the company’s Loveland site. Historically, the site has been heavily…