Unisys Corp. stands to boost its Orange County operations for the first time in years in a consolidation of its North San Diego County unit.
The Blue Bell, Pa.-based technology consulting company and maker of high-end servers is set to shutter a facility in Rancho Bernardo and move some employees to Mission Viejo, the company said.
The company’s Rancho Bernardo and Mission Viejo operations are part of Unisys’ server group. Unisys has 600 workers in Mission Viejo and 300 in Rancho Bernardo.
It’s not clear how many workers will move north to Mission Viejo. Unisys said it doesn’t plan to offer all its Rancho Bernardo workers jobs in OC.
“We don’t have any final plans yet,” said spokeswoman Elizabeth Douglass. “We’ve spoken to our employees in Mission Viejo to tell them what’s happening.”
The consolidation is part of Unisys’ companywide cost-cutting effort that began last year.
“We’re just trying to improve our efficiency overall,” Douglass said.
Unisys once was much bigger in OC, counting as many as 1,300 workers in Mission Viejo at one time. It ranked as the second largest computer products maker in the county in the mid-1990s.
The technology downturn in 2000 and 2001 hit its local operations hard and the company cut costs.
For more on this story, see the Aug. 8 edition of the Business Journal.
