DECEMBER 2, 2020 — HP MOVING HEADQUARTERS FROM CALIFORNIA TO TEXAS.
The company has announced that it will be moving its corporate offices from San Jose, California to Houston, Texas. The company claims that it will keep its San Jose campus, but one can never rely on representations from a company in flux.
Considering California’s increasing taxation, hostile business climate, cost of living, and talented individuals who are leaving Caliornia each day, a future of California layoffs or relocations is on the horizon.
The company’s new campus is under construction and scheduled to be completed 2022. Although the company claims there will be no layoffs, they also note that it is “unclear how many employees the move will affect.” — Code words to pack your bags or try to reposition.
Forewarned is forearmed.
JULY 21, 2020 — 146 LAYOFFS AT THE WESBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS OFFICE
The company has laid off 146 employees at its Westborough, Massachusetts office. Many of employees originally worked for SimpliVity that was acquired by HP three years ago. It appears that some of the SimpliVity support and development operations to Bangalore, India.
According to a company spokesperson, “Unifying our R&D strategy for both HPE Nimble Storage dHCI and HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) will allow customers to benefit from a consistent and better experience across hybrid cloud, AIOps, support, automation, and lifecycle management for all of their HCI use cases. As part of this plan, there will be a reduction in the HPE HCI headcount.
It is unknown if the Westborough office will be closed in the near future.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Published reports by reputable business publications such as Bloomberg News suggest that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is prepared to layoff up to ten-percent of its worldwide workforce, approximately 5,000 workers in the immediate future. This is part of HPE’s continuing realignment and restructuring to find relevance in today’s cloud environment and to compete with the other large players in the IT services space. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) was created on November 1, 2015 as part of splitting of the original Hewlett-Packard company. The company is headed by CEO Meg Whitman who still needs to prove to investors that HPE is a long-term play when measured against Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, and others who are already in the cloud.
Change is coming. There will always be a tomorrow, no matter how much you may try to ignore it. There are no guarantees in life or promises for a bright future. Just because something bad hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. No one is guaranteed to wake up tomorrow and still have a job by evening. Are you now wondering, Am I Next?