Wiley Planning for Layoffs in UK, Possibly Australia

The Bookseller reports that John Wiley & Sons is currently consulting its way to eliminating 45 jobs in the scientific, medical, technical, & scholarly division in its Chichester, UK offices. There may also be 15 job losses in Melbourne, Australia.

The work of the to-be-laid-off employees -- though not the employees themselves, and possibly not the headcount -- will be transferred to Wiley's Singapore offices.

Best wishes to all of my colleagues during this unpleasant time, and my vain hopes that exactly 45 of them in exactly the right jobs in Chichester will find better jobs elsewhere during the course of the consultation.