Athenahealth, the Watertown-based health care software company, on Thursday became the latest technology company in the area to announce layoffs — as well as a potential shake-up in its longstanding office space.
Chairman and CEO Bob Segert announced that 178 positions would be cut from athenahealth’s ranks, in addition to just over 100 employees being “redeployed to higher priority areas of our business,” according to a company-wide e-mail obtained by the Globe.
As of November, athenahealth — which develops technology for health care settings — had about 1,500 employees in Greater Boston and about 6,500 globally, according to Segert.