Avaya definitely terminated their research and development team

David Heath
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 17:01

IT People - Enterprise

Effective immediately, Avaya's Australian Technology Strategy & Development team has been disbanded and most employees made redundant.

First announced by CRN this morning and categorically denied to another iTWire staffer, sources indicate that the Avaya R&D team redundancies definitely happened yesterday (Monday 1st February).

Unconfirmed reports indicate that US-based Senior Vice President & President, Avaya Global Services, Chris Formant flew to Sydney over the weekend to deliver the news.

According to the sources, the entire Technology Strategy & Development team based in Avaya's North Ryde premises permanently "left the building" on the same day the redundancies were announced, although due to the general reluctance of team-members to speak out, it appears that pay-outs have not yet been made.

Apparently, the company has retained just two technical managers to assist with the completion of a contract call centre project, but even those people don't expect to have a job beyond the end of March when the contract is completed.

Other R&D teams have been left largely unscathed, but for some years, people departing from those teams have not been replaced, resulting in increasingly critical resourcing issues.