HPE to cut technician jobs as field work outsourced to Unisys HPE has confirmed plans to outsource its field support business to Unisys. The company on Tuesday told The Register that HPE will hand over services - including installations and maintenance - to Unisys, in response to reports of the shift in strategy. "HPE has entered into a strategic relationship with Unisys to provide …
Can we start a meme of theorising how many legs these companies are sitting on? It seems several start out with five or six legs under their stools, then get into a habit of whittling away and then chopping legs out from under themselves. Then they are surprised when dropping that unneeded third leg and they fall over.
How many legs for IBM? How many for HPE?
"It's amazing how rarely HR are affected by redundancies"
One place I worked at was "downsizing" which meant they had to hire extra HR staff to cope with the workload. Strangely, they weren't hired on fixed length or temp contracts and the HR dept. never did downsize after the hatchet jobs were finished. The only department in the entire company to grow year on year despite the other cutbacks. I wonder why the bean counters never seem to see HR as a cost centre ripe for cuts?
@ John Brown (no body) "I wonder why the bean counters never seem to see HR as a cost centre ripe for cuts?"
Simply because there's a kind of MAD that exists between the bean counters and the HR droids. The BCs know where the money is and control who gets what; while HR know all the dirt on everyone and where the bodies are buried. Thus one lot gets their unchecked expanding empire plus juicy bonuses for reducing the empires (and costs) of others; while the other lot are confident the finer, more questionable aspects of their employee records never see the light of day so they aren't subject to closer inspection.
Disintermediated variant of "circular outsourcing" link (straight to the relevant diblert archive item, rather than going via some random intermediary layer that adds a 30% markup/needs the pageviews, you choose)
http://dilbert.com/strip/2003-08-03
Fifteen years ago.
No one has yet received official termination of employment notification from HR and yet they already started threatening employee that they won't be eligible to severance package if they don't comply.
Unisys is telling affected employee to log on their website and fill an intention of employment form.
People might be contacted if they are considered and if opening if created.
It has already been made clear that people won't be offered similar compensation.
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