Random question. How many HP sites have been shut down permanently?
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Down votes notwithstanding, I repeat:
“There will be no US HP print sites open by 2022.”
@gtex - which is declared on the financials. Diff not “real” revenues. Investors know the difference. Probably better to divest and best/off-shore don’t ya think? More $$, lot less overhead. Just like canning perm employees to replace with contract ones. You know the drill!
Selling sites and leasing part of the sites back was started by Carly and has continued ever since. It is a simple way to artificially increase revenue in the short term.
Sadly, things change. It was a good run. The original HP selling PCs and printers is pretty pathetic. Bits and pieces that were spun off will live on.
Sad to hear the news. Visited San Diego a couple of times and liked the working environment
All. Thank you for your replies. Am looking elsewhere. Would love to hold 'hope', and I hope I'm wrong. ....but San Diego was sold and is being leased back like allot of other sites. Lease is coming up. Who knows if it will be renewed. Was in a meeting this week. Management is talking about doing everything they can to keep San Diego site open. Doesn't look good. I guess it's inevitable. Even big companies that prosper for many years....ultimately will meet their demise. They get too big.
Right now Corvallis is booming with at least 3000+ people there. It is an R&D site. The main ink lab is there and so is the 3D printing prototypes. The huge PageWide printers are also located there for customer experiments. I doubt very much if that location is closing in the next 10 years.
12 years ago, Corvallis had only 1000+ employees after they sent a lot of engineering testing to Ireland. They closed Ireland up and now all of that is back at Corvallis.
Boise has had more cutbacks lately than all the others. Vancouver is a relatively small site and I only knew it for the incinerator being located there for destruction of prototypes after testing was completed.
Vancouver and Boise sold their sites and are leasing back a fraction of the total space. This is but one step toward closing them down. All post-2022 printer business will be in Barcelona, Shanghai, and Suwon. Xerox will also own the current A4 business. Anyone with any vision can readily see grid coming.
I seriously doubt US sites like Vancouver, Boise or San Diego will be totally closed by 2022. Corvallis maybe. I know some of SD went to Vancouver.
However, site closures are a common method HP uses to dump employees. More often than not, employees choose to leave the company and not move to another site. They can close a site and dump a lot of long term employees.
You have to include the sites that came with the Compaq purchase or where HPI split from HPE like Roseville and Omaha. HPE is still there but not HPI(Q). Both at exiting the Houston campus (took long enough.)
Worldwide? Dunno.
There will be no US HP print sites open by 2022.
Ireland. Are there any other sites?