On the brink of a historic break-up, Hewlett-Packard disclosed on Tuesday that it is planning to slash another 25,000-30,000 jobs to put its new enterprise business on stronger footing as a stand-alone company.
The swingeing cuts come on top of 54,000 jobs that have already gone over the past three years as chief executive Meg Whitman has fought to turn around one of Silicon Valley's iconic companies. Earlier this year she threw in the towel on holding HP together in its current form and instead announced plans to carve it into two.
The latest round of cuts will take place in HP's IT services business as the company takes more jobs off-shore to cut costs, according to Tim Stonesifer, chief financial officer of HP Enterprise, one of two companies that will emerge from the break-up.
The latest overhaul, which will include cash charges of $1.2bn, comes despite an earlier assurance from Ms Whitman that HP would not have to undertake any more restructurings.
"This has been a bit of a moving target," Ms Whitman said at an analyst meeting on Tuesday. "It has been a bumpy road, no doubt about it… We are conscious there have been a number of restructuring plans for this business."
Ms Whitman added: "I always said we would do what is right for this company." The IT services market has continued to change and put more pressure on HP to reorganise its operations, for instance by increasing the proportion of its services workforce in lower-cost, off-shore centres to 60 per cent, she said.
Ms Whitman, who will become CEO of HP Enterprise after the split, also offered a downbeat view of the company's growth prospects in the next few years. While the enterprise technology market is expected to grow at 4-5 per cent a year, the HP operation is expected to grow at a slower rate, roughly in line with global GDP, reflecting difficulties in markets including China, Russia and Brazil, she said.
在一次汗青性的拆分行將到來之際，惠普(HP)周二表露稱，籌劃再裁人2.5萬至3萬人，以使拆分出的企業營業作為一家自力的公司能有個更強壯的基本。
此次大裁人以前，惠普已在曩昔3年裏裁人5.4萬人。惠普首席履行官梅格惠特曼(Meg Whitman)做出了很大的盡力，願望旋轉這家矽谷標記性企業的運氣。本年早些時刻，她廢棄了確保惠普現有企業架構的盡力，宣告盤算將公司一分為二。
蒂姆斯通西弗(Tim Stonesifer)表現，最新一輪裁人將針對惠普的IT辦事營業，公司為了減少本錢，會把更多崗亭轉移到外洋去。惠普拆分成的兩家公司後，斯通西弗將出任個中一家公司HP Enterprise的首席財政官。
只管惠特曼起初曾包管惠普無需再舉行更多構造調劑，但該公司照樣推出了這一最新的調劑籌劃。此次調劑將消耗12億美元現金。
“目的產生了些許轉變，”惠特曼在周二的剖析師集會上表現，“這是一條波動之路，這一點毫無疑難……咱們意想到，針對這一營業存在很多構造調劑籌劃。”
惠特曼接著說：“我一向說，咱們將采用對公司而言準確的辦法。”她表現，IT辦事市場一向在變更，這對惠普構成為了更大的營業重組壓力，好比把本錢更低的離岸中間的辦事員工比例進步到60%。
惠特曼將出任拆分出來的HP Enterprise的首席履行官。她還對公司將來幾年的增加遠景表現了消極。她表現，只管企業技巧市場的預期年增加率為4%至5%，但惠普營業的增速估計會低一些，大抵即是環球GDP增速，這反應出了中國、俄羅斯和巴西等市場的逆境。
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