back to article HPE sharpening the axe for 5,000 heads – report

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is about to release the trap door again with 5,000 employees, or almost 10 per cent of its workforce, expected to fall through it. The redundancies, first reported by Bloomberg, are part of the HPE Next initiative that CEO Meg Whitman hatched in June, a radical programme – the latest in a long line …

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  1. JeffyPoooh
    Pint

    Start with the folks that design HP branded laptops...

    "Friends don't let friends buy HP laptops."

    Strangely, the HP branded desktops seem to be fine.

    Their lamp-stabilized Wein bridge oscillators are pretty nice too,

  2. sniperpaddy

    Time for the classic Rowing team joke

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvCTgmWox7o

  3. HurdImpropriety

    Seat Sensors

    HP doing what HP does best. So Meg, the seat sensors at the HP Marlborough facility really were about studying real estate usage, right? Closed that huge facility down faster than you taking your golden parachute...even though you said that CEOs will no longer get golden parachutes. Another executive stool....

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    WOW

    It's a pretty sad indictment of life when you read the opening few lines to learn that, apart from selling off most of the company, MW has fired over 100,000 people so far. 100,000....staggering.

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