No more hands-off Roche su­per­vi­sion? Genen­tech brings out the axe, slash­ing 223 HQ staffers 'across de­part­ments'

Genen­tech is whack­ing 223 staffers at its head­quar­ters base in South San Fran­cis­co.

The news was filed with the state of Cal­i­for­nia in a WARN no­tice about up­com­ing cuts, re­ceived on Au­gust 9.

In a re­ply to my query, a spokesper­son for the com­pa­ny not­ed: “The po­si­tions are in South San Fran­cis­co and var­ied across de­part­ments.” There were no de­tails on who will be cut, though the lay­offs will run in­to No­vem­ber.

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