Canadian Geographic lays of 8 more staff; outsources customer service

More layoffs at Canadian Geographic. The word is that 8 people have been let go this week at the Ottawa-based magazine, six of them involved in the member services department which is now redundant with the announcement this week that fulfillment and member services will all be handled by Indas Limited. An earlier post detailed how Canadian Geographic's merchandise division had been shut down and that accounts for two more people. A still earlier post detailed a major exodus in September.

In all, some 15 people, many of them long-term staff, have been cut from CanGeo in the past 7 months. There is also a rumour that the Canadian Geographic Society building, which was mortgaged to buy out Key Publishers last year, may be up for sale.