Thread regarding HP (Hewlett-Packard) layoffs

HP layoffs are going on now and involve a new job offer ... but no severance

HP CFO Cathie Lesjak said last week that HP would be cutting another 5% from its workforce, beyond the last target of 55,000 people.

Some HP employees in the chronically troubled HP Enterprise Services business unit are being offered jobs at a different consulting company in lieu of severance.

HP told employees affected by this arrangement that they are being "terminated" and will not be offered the standard one week of pay for each year of employment, our source told us. HP will pay for unused vacation time only in states that require such payments by law, we were told.

Ciber will be sending out job offers in the next few days. HP employees have 48 hours to accept or decline.

Whitman has also publicly talked about replacing HP ES workers with more automated systems and off-shoring jobs to lower-cost regions

Read more at http://www.businessinsider.com/source-hp-layoffs-going-on-now-include-an-alternate-job-offer-but-no-severance-2015-8

Bottom line if you are a high cost employee regardless of your time with HP and what talent you bring you have a target on your back.

Management are cutting mission critical employees only to find out afterwards that there is no one to continue their work and in some cases have had to rehire those employees at a much hire cost and they call that cost savings. Meg and her cowardly management are slashing and burning the high skilled workforce for cheap overseas employees with far less skills, all in the name of the shareholders.

HP is a dead company walking...

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I say refuse to take it, refuse to sign anything. Hire a lawyer. There is an implied severance package based upon the past 5 years of offerings.

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Post ID: @5v8L+DedDlHy

Still better than the Adecco offers... pay cut and a weekly check not much else... there was information for the AHA bronze plan ...

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Post ID: @4h2I+DedDlHy

The people are the business. ES isn't printers and laptops. In the end, Meg, you get what you pay for. If you put a cheap, under performing CPU into a PC, it will fail quickly and your customers will buy DELL next time. Same with poor performing, substandard workers instead of highly skilled performers. You will lose contracts. There is no great mystery why ES has lost nearly 50% of its business. It is in direct correlation to the loss of valuable employees due to layoffs. You are just another Duck Brown or Hurd...sticking it out, making yourself look like a savior so that you get your golden parachute.

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Post ID: @4P5m+DedDlHy

The Ciber offers have been made. 10-15% pay cuts, two weeks of vacation, health care with $4K deductible for individuals and $8K for families. Pretty sad.

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