Company spokesman Paul Jackson says that the company, which is headquartered at "The Gold Building" (1 Financial Plaza) in downtown Hartford, will make reductions in its corporate headquarters staff as well as several other divisions which have operations across the state of Connecticut. The firm employs 154,000 workers worldwide.

Jackson notes that approximately 1,500 jobs will be lost at its Hamilton Sundstrand aerospace division, which is headquartered in Windsor Locks. Its jet engine manufacturing subsidiary Pratt & Whitney, headquartered in East Hartford, will have 2,500 jobs cut from its worldwide workforce. Pratt & Whitney also has operations in Trumbull. The remainder of the job reductions will come from its Carrier air conditioning division, Otis elevator division, both of which are based in Farmington, its United Technologies Research Center operations in East Hartford and United Technologies corporate headquarters staff.

Sikorsky Aircraft, the company's helicopter building subsidiary, will be unaffected by the job reductions. Jackson notes that Sikorsky, which is headquartered in Stratford, is adding personnel at the moment.