'UK workers bear brunt of global HP job losses': Unite Unite has hit out at Hewlett-Packard for making more job cuts in Britain - mostly among its EDS staff - than anywhere else in Europe. The UK’s largest union said yesterday that HP’s decision to axe a quarter of its British staff following the takeover of the IT services firm in August was a mistake. "This should be a merger …
All the initial layoffs in Europe will be in the UK because they can.
In other European countries they can't lay anyone off till they've gone through a couple of years worth of negotiations in the Unions. If previous rounds of HP blood letting are anything to go by, once all the hoops have been jumped through the layoffs the other side of the channel will make Agincourt look like a teddy bears picnic.
Presumably this is being done to slow down the rate at which EDS can loose Governmemts money by delivering overpriced applications that are legacy before they go live. Sounds like a good idea to me. It would also slow down their ability to loose sensitive MoD data.
Sounds like a bloody good plan to me.
Minds the one with the hard-drive containing half the armed forces personnel data in the pocket.
Haven't the unions heard the economy is well and truly fucked. All American companies are all going into chopping mode whilst the Europeans stick their heads in the sand and hope for the best. When the recovery comes guess where the jobs wont be created, thats right, in Europe since companies will factor the cost of getting rid of people into the investment equation.
Get a life, please.
The majority of EDS staff were, are, hard working and conscientious and let down by poor management and under-priced contracts. I spent several years working on Government contracts as an EDS employee and frequently there just was not the money available to do the job properly. Very frustrating.
Read any comments on the register relating to government contracts - not just those held by EDS - and you'll find a common thread...
BTW I'm still working on Government contracts, but not as an EDS employee, and things are no better here...
Does this mean EDS will make fewer cock-ups in UK Government IT?
Let's face it, they've led a charmed life up to now. One EDS employee said to me, "There are still loads of government IT projects for us to make a mess of."
Personally, I'd have sacked them after their first debacle. It makes one think there might be some 'kick-backs' somewhere ... Gods forfend this be true!
Paris, 'coz she knows how to blow a good IT project.
yeah, and people wonder why morale with EDS uk is at rock bottom...everyone I know just can't be bothered anymore - in the last year we've had the threat of volentary redundancy hanging over our heads and now this...
most of us don't even know if we'll have a job at xmas....
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