Thread regarding Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) layoffs

HP s—s

With a moat!

Its sad to see the disappearing of Hewlett Packard in cypress but the former campus is being transformed into something awesome. lone star has already built 2 new state of the art, science and engineering buildings, and has future plans to build a green space throughout the whole campus including parts of noble energy's campus. And even a new Fine Arts building planed in the up coming future. the campus built by Compaq will soon be A large community center for Students and Workers. (2019)

World Wide Compaq had 94,600 employees in 2000 prior to the HP merger. The Compaq HQ housed 20,000 employees.

"20,000 employees in Compaq" Not all in Houston by a long shot. Compaq had former DEC and Tandem facilities all over the country.

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You are correct! Thanks for the fix!

Houston Compaq max was probably around 10,000, maybe up towards 12,000 at the very-very most.

The shrinkage has been totally obvious over the years. Building after building after building sold off, and two of them even torn down and destroyed, when no buyer could be found.

"20,000 employees in Compaq" Not all in Houston by a long shot. Compaq had former DEC and Tandem facilities all over the country.

Ahh. The good old days, when compaq reigned supreme, and the PC Tech Journal still existed.

Whoa, I see my own typo now, as well as typos from others!

For clarity, there were about 20,000 employees in Compaq hay-days.

Now there are 3,000 left... only 15% left standing.

If you are laid off and hurting over being part of the 85% and not the 15% supposedly "best" or "elite", if that hurts your self-esteem... I'm not being sarcastic here, good and healthy self-esteem is, or can be, a good thing... Then also recall this: "Nice guys finish last". Some of those left standing are the ones who best learned the dog-eat-dog, do-not-teamplay, lessons as imparted by that stupid "forced distribution performance reviews" system as dictated by the mismanagement on High. I do think that they ARE high, but, beyond being High on Smugness and Arrogance, I am not sure WHAT else they're high on!

" HPE also said they are committed to the more than 3,000 local employees and look forward to many more years at part of the community in a new Houston area campus."

On that day they were.

Does anyone know what K means? I don't think HP or Compaq combined had 3 million employees.

I know the new HPQ site is far enough away, many people may decide to not stay with the company. More auto-wfr. I do recall comments as far back as 2006 about exiting the Houston site but it lasted longer that we expected. All things come to an end.

This is old news. I believe the campus has already been sold.

The Compaq campus was awesome in its hay-day. The place was constantly busy and full of great people. Then the Turd started selling off pieces of the campus and it's been a steady decline. I walked through the campus buildings a couple of months after Harvey and it's just a sad relic. It kind of looks like those abandoned buildings in Detroit.

Management saying they "are committed to the 3000K employees" doesn't mean they will actually build new facilities. It could mean they are committed to "easing these employees transition" into other jobs outside of HPE.

WHERE in Houston will it be built, does anyone know?

Also note that in the Compaq heyday, there was 20 k employees; now down to 30 k. Only 15% left. Sad!

They are building a new facility in Houston. There was a survey about amenities a few months ago.

HPE also said they are committed to the more

than 3,000 local employees and look forward to

many more years at part of the community in a

new Houston area campus.

Does it Iactually means that HPE will shutdown this site, fire 3,000 employees and leave Houston, killing for once the good Compaq legacy?