Lenovo continues to slowly circle the drain. It's been in trouble for years, with no end in sight. Executive team has no idea what's really happening and is trying to sell a vision that is fiction. Inept management from VP levels down.
The writing is on the wall here - we should all reanalyze why we decide to stay here.
Never buy the BS that management serves up. It's all lies. Until every executive is fired, including the emperor wearing no clothes at the top, nothing will ever change. Huge and bad business decisions impacting thousands of people reverberate, seeping into every department. It doesn't end. I've never seen such a screwed up company congratulate itself so much and so often. They should be ashamed.
Laying off people is always a difficult decision and I am sure Lenovo's executives have not made this decision easily... but the problem remains that good employees are the ones who pay for poor senior management decisions. Lenovo's strategy to extend themselves to the data center (with the acquisition of the sinking IBM X86 server business) and to the smartphone (with the deep-money- losing Motorola handset business) is proving a disaster... you can't survive with a business strategy that has PCs as your only profit engine when your competitors (HPI, Dell) use PCs as their growth engine...
I was one of the people effected by the layoff. There are a lot of people within Lenovo that share your sentiment about those in charge of making decisions. I'm also told that Lenovo "restructures" every few years. My customers were not happy. I'm in sales and they gave a lot of my customers to a rep that is not local so they will not have the same local support they had...makes no sense honestly. You let go of a rep that is local with very little travel expense for a rep that lives a plane ride away so you lose that local support and expenses will increase. I guess paying increased expenses vs my salary/commissions is a better business decision at least to the current decision makers. You lose customers when things like this happen.
I hate that this happened and am very angry as my manager was seeking to take care of people he brought on from his old company instead of make sound business decisions and put the customers first.