I have heard from a highly credible contact at Hewlett Packard Enterprise that there is a new wave of layoffs coming to HPE in the first quarter (November through January). It's a big one. Management will be targeting older employees, employees at the company the longest, the high earners, and anyone not based in Texas. IMHO the company is already decimated beyond repair and this will be the final death blow to a once great company. The changes are being made to bring in a much younger and cheaper workforce which will be under the thumb of management at the Houston location. I would suggest you get out now as HPE is a company in a death spiral. Meg Whitman hopes tol make her political move under Hillary Clinton (a political appointment of some kind) and management is positioning the company for acquisition in 2017. Good luck HPE employees that survive the new terminations. You are going to need it.
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Hey you from India. Don't talk like that.
Wow @ HP Lover, maybe you should try an anger management class. That is a lot of hostility and bitterness to still hold for a job you left a year ago. Put it behind you and move on, man.
Finally this sh--ty software wanna be IT leader company is going to "die", I am so glad that, I left this sh-- one year ago, before they announced idea of selling it to the 3rd parties. Damn I reminded myself all those fake a-- smiles (oh Meg Whitman) , useless managers of managers( we fed by our precious time), totally f---ed up products ( which has been raped by HP by buying original vendor) , smug architects (who are stuck in their own image of being top professional by years of HP brainwash ) and all those corporate b--ches (in tight dresses with fake push up bras :) Damn what a waste of time
For all scared a-- pussies, get a new job, leave this sinking boat, there is no future for real professionals, deal with it :D
Sure, I understand how frustrating it is to lose your colleagues when you have a team that works well. My team has also been impacted and we're a worldwide team, spread over different locations. And guess what, even with conf-calls, emails and all the rest, we worked wonderfully together. But hell, we don't go blaming the Indians or the Mexicans for it!! We don't say things like "these people", as you call them, are "disconnected from the company, lacking basic concepts of our processes, inexperienced and unwilling to lead on anything". Your statement is just plain offensive and moronic, as if only the big boys in America had the right people with the right skills, motivation and leadership.
Don't be so judgemental. Has nothing to do with thinking US workers are superior. Has everything to with spreading a workforce across the world and expecting synergy, close collaboration, trust built from years of working with your coworkers and tight teamwork that you cannot accomplish through con calls and emails with people you've never, ever met. That's hard to do when you're shifting the workforce from country to country just to save a buck.
So how about you get real, man?
I also work with people from these and some other "low-cost" countries and I strongly disagree. I don't think they're smarter or dumber than us. It just depends on the person really. I've met some Americans that didn't have a clue and some eastern Europeans that had some impressive skills. Thinking that the best skills are in the US is just idiotic and self-complacent. Get real, man.
"lower cost countries like Romania, Poland, and Mexico where the workforce is young,well educated, and motivated."
I laugh at this idea because I work with these people everyday and I find them to be disconnected from the company, lacking basic concepts of our processes, inexperienced and unwilling to lead on anything. It is so laughable to see what is going on but yet mgmt only cares about how much money they are saving with each position move to a low cost country.
The poster is mostly right. However I doubt Hpe will be acquired next year. Hpe is reducing people costs in the global functions to scale the costs with a much smaller, post split, revenue base. Cost cutting in the functions is focused on high cost people in North America and the U.K. Roles are being moved to lower cost countries like Romania, Poland, and Mexico where the workforce is young,well educated, and motivated.
Why Texas?
I am the highest producer in my department (by a mile) and was just let go. I would say the OP is dead on.
Good grief! Sounds more like sour grapes than fact.
Sorry, OP, but you are not saying anything new on this post. Too general...