{"id":88168,"date":"1999-12-31T00:42:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/troubled-hp-to-axe-30000-jobs\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:42:00","slug":"troubled-hp-to-axe-30000-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/troubled-hp-to-axe-30000-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Troubled HP To Axe 30,000 Jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PC giant is to slash its workforce as it struggles in mobile computing era.<\/p>\n<table style=\"\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"Right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"300\" height=\"300\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/20120518094209a3be5.jpg', 'foo', 'width=460, height=386, scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/20120518094209a3be5_300x300.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>Click to enlarge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The cuts which could mean anything between 25,000-30,000 jobs lost, tipped by <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303448404577410403669187054.html\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> citing sources, who suggest the Palo Alto giant may cut up to 8% of its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Desktop giant Hewlett Packard employs almost 350,000 people globally. <\/p>\n<p>HP has not made any official comment on the rumour yet  but according to the &#8216;source&#8217;, the company will make a formal announcement at its quarterly earnings call, scheduled next week. <\/p>\n<p>And in a way, it&#8217;s no surprise the biggest PC maker in the world is looking to cut costs after its major upheaval in the past year, which started off with (now) ex-CEO Leo Apotheker announcing HP may spin off its profitable PC business and WebOS platform and go gung-ho on software, like IBM did. <\/p>\n<p>Apotheker later got the boot and was replaced with former eBay boss, Meg Whitman, who was hired to put HP&#8217;s troubled house back in order.<\/p>\n<p>Whitman later announced the giant&#8217;s enormous PC facility was here to stay. <\/p>\n<p>In March, however, HP merged its PC and Printer divisions, now called &#8216;Printing and Personal Systems Group.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> In Q4 HP PC shipments fell a worrying 16.2% with analysts Gartner blaming &#8220;the noise around this issue,&#8221; of its Hardware v Software conundrum.<\/p>\n<p>Lower demand for traditional desktops is also hitting the giant hard. <\/p>\n<div class=\"NFBreak\" style=page-break-before:always contenteditable=\"false\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Recently, HP has released a bundle of new PCs to Australia including Sleekbooks, Ultrabooks and business tablets, meaning it is looking to re-establish itself as a serious player in a PC market, increasingly dominated by mobile devices including Macbook, iPads and Ultrabooks. <\/p>\n<p>Read: New HP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smarthouse.com.au\/Home_Office\/Notebooks_And_Tablets\/Q6T6J2H4\">Sleekbooks Look Remarkably Like MacBook Air<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PC giant is to slash its workforce as it struggles in mobile computing era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":93660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-hardware","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Troubled HP To Axe 30,000 Jobs? 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