Newsday coverage below... Focusing on Islandia but worth a read...
Broadcom Inc. plans to lay off nearly 2,000 of the 4,837 U.S. workers it inherited when it acquired CA Technologies, according to internal documents obtained by Newsday.
The $18.9 billion deal for Manhattan-based CA, a maker of enterprise software for mainframe computers, closed on Monday.
On Wednesday, Broadcom sent emails to all U.S. employees of its CA unit, designating 40.9 percent for layoffs and severance packages and the remaining 2,861 for retention.
Local employees said Wednesday they believed more than 300 workers at CA's Islandia office were losing their jobs, based on documents they received from the company. The office, which was CA's headquarters until 2014, had about 1,000 workers as of May.
One Islandia employee said she received an email from San Jose, California-based Broadcom with news of the impending layoff.
"Your last day in the office will be November 9, 2018," the email said. "Your actual termination date will be February 08, 2019." The employee asked not to be identified.
"Please do not name me but this story needs to be told!" she said.
A Broadcom spokesperson declined to comment Thursday on the layoff numbers or the emails sent to employees.