State Farm Insurance has notified its employees that 890 information technology jobs are being cut in Bloomington as part an ongoing restructuring of its IT department.
The insurance company issued a statement on Tuesday indicating 280 of those jobs would be moved to its operations in Phoenix, 70 jobs would be transferred to Dallas and 30 positions would be shifted to Dallas.
“We expect to see an overall reduction of approximately 500 non-management professional-level IT jobs across State Farm,” the statement said.
State Farm added the company plans to maintain a Bloomington workforce of around 15,000 employees, adding it recently added 300 positions in its claims department in Bloomington.
State Farm started realigning its Information technology area from three departments into one now called Enterprise Technology.
“This effort will better serve customers’ increasing expectation for simpler, faster, technology-driven ways to do business with our company,” the statement said.
This story was submitted by WJBC’s Eric Stock.
