AUGUSTA — A state senator said it’s “really inappropriate” for Carbonite to slice its workforce in half over the past three years by shipping some jobs overseas while getting a state tax break for hiring in Maine. Sen. Nate Libby, D-Lewiston, said he was shocked Wednesday to read in the Sun Journal that Carbonite, a […]
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Carbonite sending low-skill Lewiston jobs to Jamaica
Carbonite’s offices on Mollison Way in Lewiston. The company says as it loses workers here, it is hiring replacements, as needed, at a Jamaican call center. The company employs half as many people in the Lewiston office as it did three years ago. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — Seven years after Carbonite announced it was […]
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Carbonite hiring in Lewiston, maybe expanding
LEWISTON — Carbonite is hiring 58 people, looking to end the year with 320 local employees, and looking further down the road to maybe moving. But not far. “There’s just something in the water up there where people are born kind, respectful, patient,” said Robert Frost, Carbonite’s vice president of customer care, speaking from the […]
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Carbonite hiring, improving, growing
LEWISTON — Downstairs, there’s free, unlimited bowling and a bright new game room with what may be the only lime and purple pool table in Maine. Upstairs, there’s a door marked “Jedi Readiness Council” and a beer cart that makes an appearance once or twice a month, when there’s reason to celebrate and everyone in […]
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Cloud storage company adds more Lewiston employees, hopes to hit 250 by year’s end
LEWISTON — Carbonite is going through a growth spurt. The online computer service’s Lewiston call center added 18 jobs this week and plans to add another 50 this year, Robert Frost, the company’s vice president of customer care, said. It currently has 200 employees. “We’ve been successfully ramping up and finding some pretty solid candidates,” […]