Today is Monday. Did the reductions continue?
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What a dump.
I have been laid out in 2014 in HP Spain. 14 years working. 47 days of salary per year working with no tax as compensation.
Actually I'm working in a IT services company bigger than HPE, with a 30 % bigger salary and more likely work. Cheers for all HP people. Laid out is not the end.
"so the never-ending story since 2001 will go on and on and on"
Ain't that the truth! It really makes one miss the John Young and Lew Platt days. CF started with a lot of bluster and bravado, but her balloon quickly deflated. To this day I am convinced that the only reason for the Compaq merger/acquisition was to buy her time, and it didn't. I remember well the Aug 2001 layoff. It had to be the most demoralizing milestone in HP's history, one from which is never really recovered. And then there was MH, out of the fire, into the frying pan!
Not really. The number I've been hearing repeatedly around here (Palo Alto) is that there were 187 total employees laid off just in the US (all US locations) this past January 16th - I actually thought the number was much higher. I don't have any info at the WW level, but people comment EMEA was hit pretty hard this last time.
Once the US employees leave by the 31st, we'll see what happens. The one thing for sure that people must understand is that this won't end anytime soon... HPE Next is chartered to - among other things - reduce headcount dramatically (layoffs, spin-offs, mergers, etc.), so the never-ending story since 2001 will go on and on and on...
HPE is all laid out.