Its just weekly layoffs and quarter after quarter of missed results, and the whopping 1-2% raise at the end of the year if you are lucky. Hiring people as contractors with horrible benefits and not making them full time and the increasing stale work environment and more.
So for those that survive all these coming layoffs, is there an actual future of HPE, even just thinking 3-5 years down the road???
Here are my predictions:
3 months - significant restructuring to meet q4 reduction goals as highlighted in q3 earnings call. Most middle management, project managers, escalation resources are done away with to move us more toward a pyramid instead of a diamond. Lots of use of contractors, partners, and outsourced call centers for customer facing positions.
6 months - HPE spins off it's low end server market to focus on acquisition niches fetching higher margin and more skill required to produce desired results. 3par, nimble, SGI, Aruba will be incorporated in to a consulting platform for managing customers who don't want to focus on IT and are glad to pay for solutions instead of just bare hardware.
1 year - layoffs reduce our staff down 10-15%. Most offices are reduced, leased, rented out. Asset liabilities are reduced and we are slimmed down to prepare for a major purchase. If we have 20,000 employees at this point I would be surprised.
2+ years - A quiet, slow death similar to Sears. Imation is a better example. You know, the folks who make your new VCR tapes in 2017. Talk about a dinosaur. We will become the new Imation. We hold major cash and large real estate assets. We have many patents and IP but we bring little value to the market any more compared to the past. We bleed ourselves dry trying to hold on. Either we dramatically change what we do and how we do it or we die as a company.
3eqm... you are spot on. I have been hammering on this same drum for quite some time. You gain NOTHING by working hard. All it gets you is more hard work. The way to get ahead is to get some other slug to do your hard work for you. This is easy to accept once you understand they are not laying people off as a cost cutting measure. The are strictly operating from a bullying/intimidation standpoint. Refuse to be bullied and they'll leave you alone. Has worked for me spanning six decades.
No good news in sight...
Hurricane Harvey is devastating most of Houston right now, to include the main HPE campus. This is after record flooding of the HPE Houston campus in April of 2016. HPE flooding looks to become even worse this time around. It took months and months last time, to clean up the mess in low-laying floors of the campus. It is a pretty safe bet that after this, manufacturing in Houston will be shut down. That's not for sure, now, but highly likely, I am guessing...
After 17 years at HP/HPE I decided to leave the company a few months ago. It was a hard decision, I really enjoyed all the years I worked there. And I hoped I could be more optimistic about the future, but looking back the last 10 years, I really don't see the company making any progress. It is a succession of bad executive decisions one after another. And thus, while I liked and still like HPE people, products and customers, I completely lost my faith in the future of the company. The future was buying Palm, then buying EDS would be our future. Then buying Autonomy would re-position the company in the market. All history, and bad bets. Of course there is good bets like 3PAR and Aruba, but the success cases are unfortunately exception.
Then HP and HPE split. HP remained about what should be a commodities marked (PCs and Printers), and HPE would be the future. HPE then sold HPES/EDS, now it is selling HP Software. Meanwhile HP is up and running, much better than HPE.
Enough is enough. I lost my faith in HPE. As simple as that. So I moved on, I could not stay seeing all that I helped to build in the last 17 years being destroyed by bad executives that are only interested in their careers and bonuses.
I'm OK with another 3 to 5 years. Making a little over 100k, for about an hour and half of work a day. Always write up the status report so it looks like progress. Repeat the trendy catch phrase of the day. Hope it continues on... Good luck to all. Back to work for about another 20 min or so. TGIF, its a beautiful day out. For those that really do try, thanks!
Depends if you like to sit around and blame everyone else for your troubles, like most of the trolls on this site, or take responsibility for your life and embrace change. It has nothing to do with HPE or age or location... plenty of people still at HPE who are happy and successful, and plenty who have left who are too. But most of those on this site are not... an ex-employee from 2000 and 17 years later still visits an HPE layoffs page! LOL. #loser
This might explain the future of this Co........and Us-term'd employees.
www.cringely.com/2012/10/23/what-americans-dont-know...
Nope, no good news or bright future at hpe. It is a factory of sadness, all bad news and a dismal future.
Look around, take your head out of the HP sand and you'll see it's not just HP.
All corporations are falling apart.
The economy and nation is imploding, but the news or government won't tell you that.
Turn off your TV and start educating yourself. Maybe start by reading "Latest Posts" where you'll see loads of companies are going through the same exact thing.
The industry is changing. There will be more mergers/consolidations in the coming years. Hopefully things will get better after layers of middle management are peeled away and a change in top management occurs.
From what I have been reading via this board' NO! I am an ex HP employee (early 2000). The hi-tech industry has totally changed as you know. Sad state of affairs. No job security or employer loyalty.