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...
This was posted by @PG8maer-9hby, had to make it a thread for hitting the nail on the head. Lenovo management screws up, we pay the price. This will never change, as it seems.