The Number to be laid off will be MUCH LARGER -- "The number is sadly larger than some people might have expected, but I think it's a reflection of how much trouble HP has been having with its services," said Charles King, analyst at the Silicon... — read more 

After 22 years here, I am perplexed and utterly puzzled. Such a big move, breaking HP into two parts, it's massive and very complicated operation. But what two parts of HP will do in order to grow? What is a growth strategy for the two new companies?... — read more 

Applicable to HP, but written by Forbes Mag - This article must be on every Hewlett Packard Enterprise Managers "absolute must read" list. I just experienced the Suddenly Stupid part, years of awards, commendations (for customer service), now I've... — read more 

Has anyone heard anything more about HP renegotiating contracts with Ciber and Adecco employees, it was from a Business Insider article last week. Does this affect Canadian employees as well?

...but there won't actually be a layoffs. Just need everyone to work hard as we enter new, high growth areas. On the enterprise side. HP knows that great talent takes a long time to build, and it'd be extremely short sighted to get rid of people and... — read more 

I used to work for another large global company where there also was a huge layoff, not much unlike the job cutting wave we are facing here at HP today. The CEO was like any other CEO, pretty tough and even more aggressive in language and attitude... — read more 

Meg Whitman is planing to cut about 88 000 jobs. Apparently, they want to 'maximize the shareholder return’.

HP shares are not valuable at they were last year. No wonder we are having the job crisis now.

Why work a lot of hours for pay that is not competitive.

Do you get to work from home? It seems like I heard something about this, but just curious if contractors are being required to work in HP facilities or if they are being allowed to telecommute. It might be the only worthwhile benefit in the deal for... — read more 

Lots of turn over. No raises. I don't think so.

I've been working for HP for about a year and I was just laid off yesterday. I can't trust any company now.

Is Meg Whitman doing the right thing?

I work for HPE, and would like to volunteer for layoffs in order to hopefully obtain some severance. I have almost 6 years in with the company. Are there any managers on this forum who can advise on how I could go about doing this? I have a fairly... — read more 

Cutting 30 000 jobs, saves 2 billion annually. What about 30 000 people?

HP was founded in one of the Palo Alto's garages. It was once one of the largest co of Silicon Valley. Unfortunatelly, it is struggling in sales and they had to make a move.

My prediction... they are losing millions every month on a poorly negotiated contract (which the richly rewarded executives responsible already collected their bonuses for, and likely used inside information to underbid the competition). They will... — read more 

HP said it was moving more of its workers to lower-cost locations as part of its efforts to cut costs. In its 2013 fiscal year, the company said 36 percent of its employees in enterprise services worked in what it called low-cost locations. This year... — read more 

She has already cut 50,000 jobs at HP now she is slashing 30,000 more. She was paid more than 19.6 million last year One of the things making Whitman's compensation package so sweet: a huge golden parachute. Whitman would get nearly $91 million if HP... — read more 

Shame, the HP system itself is broken. The number of times I witnessed bad practices or the professional code of conduct broken in my department were too many to recount and when it got to the point where I had to do something about it (use of racist... — read more 

Most of the HP visitors of the layoff site are passive, not even writing their thoughts on this free site. Hope they are active at work :) HP-ers be active, raise your voice when you see unprofessional behavior at work, that is the only way to make... — read more 

http://www.cnet.com/news/hp-plans-to-cut-another-25000-to-30000-jobs/#ftag=CAD28c1833

HP is out of date, out of touch and with the brain drain caused by their actions they will always be behind the eight ball within the industry. Many of management do not even have a clue what their employees are working on. Management is old, their... — read more 

OK, now layoffs. Thank you. After all the effort to 'save the project', 'keep the client', tons of weekends, overtime galore, now we will cut 30,000 people. For what? More bonuses for the exec line up. I joined 28 months ago from a smaller consulting... — read more 

I used to be scared, I am not any more. If they go through with the plan (and they will) everyone will be axed.

Meg should react swiftly and immediately fire another 30,000 people. Additional 20,000 on-shore folks should be replaced with off-shore resources.

This is my HP Layoff Numbers estimate, so no insider info here. The estimate is based on the publicly available hiring numbers. I've been tracking hiring trends and based on this, I'd break down the number of people that will be laid off in percent... — read more 

The cuts announced Tuesday will be within the newly formed Hewlett Packard Enterprise, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hp-jettison-30-000-jobs-210918954.html

There was an article this week from Business Insider about how HP is in the process of renegotiating the contracts of some workers that were sent to Ciber. My dad who used to work for HP was laid off and sent over to Modis, forcing him to take a... — read more 

HPE is freezing how years-of-service points apply to retirement/vesting calculations. One more move by the company to screw over its employees. Being laid off might not be the worst thing ever, because it means not having to work for a company that... — read more 

Well, I'm a DBA for the HP Enterprise division. We have heard rumors and some fact that people are being told to move to office. However, we keep on asking for updates and receiving no responses. I have another job lined up, just need to give HP the... — read more 

I worked there as an IT analyst for 4 years and left earlier this year. Several of my work colleagues opted for early retirement, one of them took up voluntary redundancy and I was refused voluntary redundancy so I left on my own accord. I can't... — read more 

Have layoffs been announced for overseas operations such as in Costa Rica?

The Ciber offer was given to a lot of programmers and analysts; people who were under contract by an HP customer to work on, say, an Oracle ecommerce software or to write applications for HP healthcare customers and so on. The Ciber offer was, so... — read more 

The Ciber rehire is because they need you! Would be best to collectively walk out and watch HP go in breach of contractual obligations. Meg thinks 6-7% profits margin aren't good enough see how she like losing billions more

I got the axe from HP last October and it was the best thing that could have happened to me. I should have left years ago but after you have invested so many years, it is hard to leave. Now I am in a position where we consult and advise to government... — read more