by justinb
1. June 2010 22:58
Perhaps there are a few organizations left where doing a good job means you get to keep your job, but at HP the integration with EDS means 3,000 job losses. Talk about a slap in the face, that's about as crude as it gets. Why on earth would you give a hard working performing employee (or in this case 3,000 employees) the axe? Well according to HP, the integration with EDS is going so well that its ahead of schedule. Corporate lingo translation - we brought in the big guns, treated them like gold so they performed well for us and now its time to trim the payroll since the "big guns" cost too much and we would rather transfer those savings to bonuses for the bigwig executives. Sound familiar?
Wait a minute, Justin, i think your facts are off, i thought HP was hiring nearly 6,000 employees. Well, in fact that is true, HP is hiring nearly 6000 employees to it's sales and delivery teams while cutting 3000 in engineering and technical related staff. So in other words, HP is trading engineering staff for product pushers and order takers. Hummh an engineering firm that favors order takers over engineering staff...lets see where that goes. According to HP though, there is another phase, following the current phase of the EDs integration which will focus on standardization and automation of EDS services. It's a little hard to understand how HP will win favor with the technical gurus for the phase II EDS integration, when HP has already shown in phase I that the technical know how folks are pretty low on the priority list - long term. For now all we know is that the HP EDS integration equates to 3000 job losses, as for anything else we'll just have to wait and let those chapters unfold. 