Do yourself a favor and find a new job. If it is not obvious, the "merger" is largely an exercise of the combining of the existing accounts under one delivery organization. Therefore, off the bat one can expect staff between the two companies to be reduced by 50% due to duplicate functions. However, CSC uses an industry standard, more or less SaaS, open tool set, whereas HPE uses proprietary tools. The proprietary tools will largely be phased out, as the relationship with HPE software division goes away. Therefore, the need for the persons who support those tools also goes away. Also the move to low-cost delivery centers will continue, driving the 50% number even higher. Combine this with the reality that it is near impossible to lay off workers in APJ and EMEA in time to meet numbers for any given quarterly fire drill, and you may well have a situation where there are few to no US workers left in this new company at all. There is no innovation going on, no creative thinking, no aggressive transformations to new ways of doing business that one would expect high paid executives to come up with and implement. The only thing this executive team can come up with is to cut staff to make this quarter's numbers, and buffet stock prices. They are intellectually and morally bankrupt. Meanwhile, people still clap at the all employee meetings.
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So you are taking a "wait and see" strategy? Now you'll have thousands of IBM employees competing for the same jobs you would be applying to... Keep waiting, and "see what happens"...
@2wcq - Circa Compaq/HP 2002. It's not about making a great Company... It's about survival for a few more years based on artificial life assistance, and plenty of money for the brains behind the execution, as well as some investors. The least they care about is the employee base, closely followed by the customers.
Two failing companies merging is not going to make a great one!
Amen to that! Family comes first! I would definitely start looking now and find something else. It's easier to find a job when you have one plus it's you making the choice where you go and not forced to land a job just to have one. Lots of great companies including HPE's competitors looking for great talent! This is coming from someone that was also WFRd this year from HPE.
If you are an HPE ES employee and do nothing but assume a "wait and see" strategy to see what happens, you are incredibly irresponsible to your family and/or beloved ones - which will be the ones that will really suffer by your negligence. You should take this very seriously and start looking aggressively for another job NOW. Even if you don't find a job, or are not laid off, at least you can feel good that you did what you had to do TO PROTECT YOUR FAMILY.
Everett Spinco ... rolls eyes Yep.... acquisition all the way
But when HPE has pushed it's proprietary tools onto all of its accounts, then what do the HPE folks know? Nothing outside of HPE tools. So the CSC folks have all the knowledge and will likely remain
HP is terrible when it comes to cooperating between groups... want to host a simple website and database? Prepare to pay 5 figures per year. Want to use that proprietary tool that HP created internally? Yeah, throw another 5 figure cost into your budget. Meanwhile, you can get hosting in the cloud for a fraction of HP's pricing, or get open sourced tools for free (and HP's own tools will add costs if you need support, like most open source tools).
Getting out from under that idiocy is certainly a good thing for ES.
Beyond that, who knows. People like Meg will still continue to think her customers will pay Caviar pricing for McDonald's value menu items, and fail to understand that customers will only put up with that for so long. Shipping jobs overseas is great for the bottom line of your budget, but it pays hell on your ultimate bottom line in lost customers who no longer have faith that your company can deliver the expertise and innovation they paid for.
Acquisition is a more accurate term, and thus why I placed the "merger" in quotations. That has been the spin. Even so, an acquisition will tip the scales even more toward exiting more US HPE workers, because all the CSC people already know their business and delivery model. They only really need the account revenues, and a few holdout employees for continuity as the accounts are transformed to the new delivery model during renewal cycles. I wonder if any executives have considered cutting back on all the huge salaries and bonuses that are paid at director level and above. The actual boots on the ground service delivery teams are wiped out, and trust me when I tell you that you can add MANY bodies to improve service delivery, and marketplace reputation, for the compensation each of those "leaders" enjoys.
"So this is how liberty dies...with thunderous applause." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVktgs2gih4
I'm looking at this more as a buyout by csc than a merger and getting out from under the proprietary tools is a huge plus. Probably more cuts coming and frankly, depending on how live is in a strictly services company could be quite a few move on to other opportunities. Not sure US cuts will be as drastic as you propose, but I'm sure there will be some.