End Of An Era

Today the sale of Thomson NETg by SkillSoft Corporation was finalized. There has been a death in the learning family.

I was originally hired by Knowledgenet, and soon after, they merged with Thomson NETg. NETg (National Education Training group) had been acquired by the Thomson Corporation previously. The merger seemed pretty easy from my view point and everyone on the NETg and Knet sides were professional and wonderful to work with. Today after the sale was announced the farewell e-mails started, people who had been with the company for 8, 9 and even 12 years had been immediately laid off by SkillSoft. Almost all of the sales team are gone.