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> "Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest personal computer maker, has said it will layoff roughly 27,000 employees or about eight per cent of its workforce.... g
by sparknlaunch12 14y ago
> "Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest personal computer maker, has said it will layoff roughly 27,000 employees or about eight per cent of its workforce.... generate annual savings of $3bn to $3.5bn by the end of 2014."
This feels inevitable for HP. After various takeovers and the economic climate (in particular on their PC division) it seems an easy decision. Most of the redundancies will be made up of early retirement, but always seems like a loss of talent. There must be some veterans there with 40/50 years in the business.
- loudmax 14y agoAnd it makes it much harder for HP to attract or hold on to top talent. The perception that it's a sinking ship is self-reenforcing. WebOS seemed to get a lot of positive reviews. Maybe there's a place left for it, but it seems unlikely at this point.
- debacle 14y agowebOS is a good OS, but HP has abandoned it.
- yalogin 14y agoAnd unfortunately no one will hire (most of) these experienced employees even though they probably are very good.
- pnathan 14y agoThat's a lot of engineers for the industry to suddenly absorb. More "old-fashioned" companies will not balk at hiring a 30-year HP veteran, I think... So long as he's knowledgeable and capable as anyone else who's worked 30 years in the industry. It's concerning, however, when one interviews a 5-8 year veteran who has less skills than a new grad. Don't get in that rut. :-)
- Roboprog 14y agoYes, there are many 30 year old programmers writing sloppy unstructured code that would have been drummed out of the freshman programming class I had to take, longer ago than I should admit :-) Uh, which skills? organization, or enterprise hoo-hah buzzword bingo???