Clorox Moving Hundreds Of Workers Out Of Oakland
OAKLAND (AP) - Clorox Co. plans to shift hundreds of jobs from its headquarters in Oakland to a new site in Pleasanton.
Officials tell the Oakland Tribune as many as 700 jobs could move to the new Pleasanton campus by the end of 2011. That would be about 60 percent of the current staffing level in Oakland.
The new location will house Clorox's research and development operations. Those operations are currently located at another site in Pleasanton. But the staff that supports the research department remains separate in Oakland.
Economists say the loss of those workers would hurt other Oakland businesses.
Clorox CEO Donald Knauss says the new Pleasanton campus will evoke images of the IBM Research Center in San Jose or open spaces at the national laboratories in Livermore.
