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Samsung Electronics America is slashing hundreds of U.S. jobs as it moves its headquarters to Texas

A WARN Act filing shows 739 roles affected at the company's New Jersey campus, with roughly 100 more cut at its Plano, Texas office

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Samsung Electronics America said Sunday that 739 roles at its Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey campus have been affected by its planned move of the consumer electronics unit's headquarters to Texas. A majority of those workers received relocation offers, though others were let go, the company said without specifying numbers.

At Samsung Electronics America's Plano, Texas office, roughly 100 workers — among them employees in the mobile division — lost their jobs, Reuters reported, based on people with direct knowledge of the situation. Samsung Electronics America, known as SEA, handles the company's........

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