Global money-transfer provider Western Union will eliminate 150 positions in coming weeks, including 80 in the metro area.
Forty positions are being eliminated from the company’s headquarters in the Meridian Office Park, while another 40 are being cut from a call center on Hampden Avenue.
A company call center in Costa Rica will pick up the work done by the second group, without adding any additional employees, said Western Union spokeswoman Sherry Johnson.
“The company is working with all the affected employees. Nobody was told that today was your last day,” Johnson said.
Displaced workers are being offered severance pay and help finding other jobs.
The job cuts were part of an effort to improve efficiencies and are not a result of Western Union’s spinoff from First Data Corp., which is expected to be completed in early fall, Johnson said.
About half the company’s workforce of 5,000 is based in Colorado. Western Union has more than 245,000 agent locations spread across more than 200 countries and territories.
Staff writer Aldo Svaldi can be reached at 303-820-1410 or asvaldi@denverpost.com.
