HPE decided to close Vietnam R&D site on July 14, most of around 60 people are working of HPE Software BU.
It seems the wave of laying of started at the beginning of Q2 2016.
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Tax loophole? You don't need to go that far. Just take a look at Puerto Rico and all the jobs that have been transferred there from Houston through the past few years. Not fair... I hope a lot of things change when DT gets elected. It's time to get all those jobs back!
I am sorry... This nightmare is going on at a WW level across the entire Company. Without trying to be an @ss, most probably those 60 jobs were previously held by US employees that lost their jobs a couple of years ago because the roles were transferred to your Country. It's the cycle of the always-there-will-be-a-lower-cost-Country. Those jobs shouldn't have gone to Vietnam first place... I know that sounds extremely rude, so I apologize for it (but it's the way I think & feel). We need to stop companies like HPE to continue sending jobs abroad to take advantage of tax loopholes... My opinion has nothing to do about your Country, or racism of anything like that (at least that is not my intention at all). I'm just talking about the controls that are long overdue needed in the US to protect our jobs nationally. DT 2016...