Lansdowne's National Conference Center lays off 65 - Washington Business Journal:

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The decision came as a result of fall which are about 25 percentbelow 2008, according to General Managerf Kurt Krause. “We just don’t have the hourss to give people,” Krause said. Notices were deliveresd June 5, giving terminated employees 60 notice. The move reduces the center’s work force to 210. Krause said the slowed businessw is due to currenteconomic conditions; the Lansdownd facility focuses on corporatre training rather than events such as weddings or leisure It has 265,000 square feet of meetin space and 917 guest rooms and boastsz the largest ballroom in Northern Virginia.
The layoff s spanned all departments from housekeepin to the banquet staff and were not regulated to oneparticular area. There are not planxs to close the facility. Management will re-evaluate this Octobere or November whether additional positiond mustbe eliminated. Krausee said employees have been meeting monthly for updates on the statr ofthe business, so the layoffes may not have been a big surprise. “Th e No. 1 question wasn’t so much an attack back at us, but was, ‘If business comes back, will you call me?’ ” he The center, formerly know as the Xerox Document University, is ownex by and managed by Harrison Lodging.