DHL Express

Package-delivery giant DHL is laying off 105 employees, or 11 percent, of its Scottsdale Airpark data-center workforce as part of the global company's pull-back from the U.S. market. DHL had employed 925 people at the Scottsdale center and began reducing that number in the past few weeks to 820 employees, a spokesman said. The high-tech center, which opened in 2002, is one of a handful nationwide that monitor the movement of DHL customers' packages worldwide. Demand for the center's information-technology services also fell as a result of the U.S. restructuring, he said. DHL's parent company, Deutsche Post World Net of Bonn, Germany, announced in late May that it would restructure its money-losing U.S. Express business. Plans include contracting with rival United Parcel Service Inc. to handle air shipments within North America, consolidating small sorting facilities and reducing service in remote areas. Employees received 60 days' notice of the layoffs and will receive severance payments and transition assistance, DHL said.