HPE numbers exceeded Wall Street expectations, but how much of that was due to the execs eliminating the 2017 annual bonus? It did not hurt the execs since much of their compensation is stock options and RSUs, but it did hit the rest of us whose variable compensation was wiped out.
Antonio says he is going to change things, make it a great place to work, but he still plans to keep squeezing employees, laying people off, offshoring work, etc. If he really valued the HP Way, he would remember that employees should be rewarded for their hard work, not shafted to goose the numbers.
Further, where is the money to pay for the innovation the execs says is coming when all they seem to do is send $7B back to shareholders rather than invest that into innovative technologies. Even the once gem called HP Labs has been cut to the bone (many jumped to Google when they saw the writing on the wall after Hurd and Leo screwed the pooch and became multi-millionaires along the way).