Saline’s Latitude Learning plans to hire 5-10

Latitude Learning knows how to take a punch and come back swinging. That’s what the Saline-based firm did after the recent recession clocked it good last year, setting the firm for a comeback.The technology consulting company cut its staff in half after the Big Three took it on the chin last year, leaving the downtown-based firm with 30 people and a couple of independent contractors. However, the software as a service product it launched last year is starting to gain traction this year, allowing the firm to begin hiring 5-10 later this year.”This year we started to roll out marketing full force,” says Jeff Walter, president of Latitude Learning. “We’re adding people and we expect to grow.”Its new learning management system product allows companies to train employees and track their training through systems large and small, local and global. Its open source philosophy has made it flexible and popular with its customers.”It’s very functionally rich,” Walter says.Source: Jeff Walter, president of Latitude LearningWriter: Jon Zemke