Captions company lays off nearly 350 in state, more than 100 in Tampa

CapTel Service Specialists say the job cuts are due to a new technology.

  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:50 p.m. July 21, 2022
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  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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A company that provides captioning services for the deaf is laying off 347 employees in Florida, 104 of them in Tampa.

CapTel Service Specialist, in two letters to the state, blames the job cuts on a new technology that gives customers a choice of getting “captions through a fully automated” system.

 

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