While Goldman stresses that Walker Digital will move forward with its other ventures, Dianne Zaremba, a former executive assistant with Walker Digital's department of policy, planning and communications, charges that the company has "all but shut down."

"There's not a living human being in the office," she alleges, "oh there might be a security guard there, but everybody else was gone as of Tuesday (Nov. 20)." Zaremba was let go earlier this week.

Goldman counters that there are still corporate headquarters workers operating out of the company's Stamford offices although much less than before the layoffs were implemented this week.

Norman Eaton, vice president of F.D. Rich Management Co., which manages the High Ridge Park office complex, says that to date Walker Digital has not contacted the company one way or the other concerning its 40,000 sf leased space at 5 High Ridge Park. He says that the company has been told that a Walker Digital company could be leasing space at 5 High Ridge Park in the near future, which could account for why the company has no plans to downsize its space there.

However, that is not to say that the six building, 500,000-sf complex has not been impacted by the downturn in the dotcom sector. WebHouse Club, a licensee of Priceline.com, which announced in October it would shut down operations, has already vacated its 130,000 sf of space at the Greenwich American Centre and has also moved out of 14,000 sf of space at 4 High Ridge Park, Eaton says. In addition, the company is utilizing 27,000 sf of space at 2 High Ridge Park to house employees involved in winding down of WebHouse's operations. Eaton relates that the WebHouse space at 2 High Ridge Park is expected to come back on the market by January 2001.