HPE have started a massive wave of layoffs. Will post more details as I find out what they are. Difficult to understand why now, since a recent spin off brought in 2.5 billion and the company has no room for cuts to maintain operations. Executives are sure to get their bonus while the worker-bees get hosed... so sad.
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Now where are the morons claiming we were "crying wolf"? This happens over and over and these people still don't get it.
I was "notified" today after just a year at HPE. I was in HR. I know of 3 more that got notified that worked with my team.
CDI fired 20% of their staff today. Some organizations ignored performance and fired everyone at a particular site (Andover, MA for example). Servers laid off 10% last week.
The Security software mktg team lost 3 today, sigh...
Network Functions virtualization team was hit last week loosing 5 on my team, shifting the roll-up too. Sigh again solid, producing, productive people
I can also confirm the announcement of many WFRs on Monday, the 17th.
I would say, and this is only my opinion, that CSC has told Meg that she needs to get the wages down so they are better aligned with what CSC pays it's people. I've worked for both companies and I will tell you that HP payed better.
The bloodbath will start Monday the 17th. You've all been put on notice.
This is hitting various server software and hardware engineering teams now, I can verify the average is 1-2 people per team. Productive people for the most part.
Prior to now these specific teams were mostly immune aside from the occasional d---beat. I think as soon as you cut engineering on such a wide scale the writing is on the wall.
Allegedly when these business units make money. Doesnt make sense. We shall see..
HPE is not slimming down. HPE is bleeding heavily and they are trying to stop it. They are applying the tourniquets in the wrong areas though. HPE management is making some short sighted changes (not related to CSC for the HPE R trolls that will attempt to counter this post) impacting many, many employees worldwide through termination. Employees that have been steadfast HPE champions staying through difficult times I will add. The loss of highly experienced staff with solid partner and customer relationships may be something HPE never recovers from. If HPE does recover it will be years in the making. The customer and partner base is already highly disappointed with HPE and it's past poor decisions. The termination numbers will likely be below reporting guidelines, but this remains to be seen. HPE incorrectly believes the termination of these employees will address budget shortfalls and that they can rebuild with new, younger and less costly staff located in fixed regional offices. The fixed offices and a requirement to work from one of those offices has been a misguided theme for HPE for some time. Some of younger and less costly staff were brought in over the last year and are comprised of 20-30 year old individuals and in some cases unskilled individuals from other positions that will work for a fraction of current costs. The quality and responsiveness is certain to be extremely low moving forward and there will be many mistakes. HPE will also be engaging with many more external contractors to complete work. This has proven to be disastrous thus far for more reasons than can be mentioned. In my honest and humble opinion, I believe you are seeing the slow demise of a once great company. It's being split up, spun off, and sold off by an executive team that is laughing all the way to the bank.
HP Labs got gutted. RIP
another group got hit too, and yes they're the ones making $$. I can think of 2 explanations.. 1) execs want to cut costs but have no f---ing idea what they're doing or 2) buyout within the next year
I heard today that there were two layoffs in a group not being transitioned to NewCo. The group is making money.
Please dont trun this site into the site that cried wolf. There will always be some layoffs at HPE as it slims down, but predicting massive layoffs everysingle week is getting old.
Agree with you @mfv, I have been hearing similar rumors from reliable sources for about 2 months now, but it is all so vague it does nothing but add more stress for already stressed out employees. How long can we keep working in such a negative environment?
Too general... Simply BS unless you can be much more specific.
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Hearing rumors about cuts in sales, marketing, engineering, regional program teams, training, support.
Hearing rumors that in some cases HPE have pre positioned replacement staff for some employees - younger less expensive employees and developing country agencies. What an awful thing to do. Goes right to the current age discrimination lawsuit in the USA.
These go beyond CSC related layoffs. This is looks bad
HPE probably agreed to a certain headcount before CSC absorbs Everett Spinco.