{"id":43643,"date":"2025-09-04T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/43643\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:08:07","slug":"powells-books-lays-off-more-than-a-dozen-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/43643\/","title":{"rendered":"Powell\u2019s Books lays off more than a dozen employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Powell's Books\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Y2DSOVSUHBHQ5PFWFUFHWZOQSU.JPG\" \/>Powell&#8217;s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside St. in Portland. The landmark bookseller is laying off employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SRK4YWFG2RAYHEQCFLISUG2KBM\">Powell\u2019s Books has laid off more than a dozen employees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FIYY4ZODJFBEZODKSLN537KKMQ\">The Portland company laid off 18 employees in July, August and September, according to a Powell\u2019s spokesperson. Impacted positions were not limited to retail locations and primarily affected \u201cmanagement and business services positions across several departments,\u201d the spokesperson said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powell&#8217;s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside St. in Portland. The landmark bookseller is laying off employees. Powell\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,117,19,17,32928,32929,32930,32931],"class_list":{"0":"post-43643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-portlandia","14":"tag-portlandia-filming-locations","15":"tag-portlandia-shooting-locations","16":"tag-powells-books"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}