Just announced. 100 people will move to new ink technology lab being set up in SD. Rest will relocate to other sites, telework, or WFR.
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Sure glad I left HP when I did a number of years ago. SD and Boise used to be large, highly productive campuses, but now they’re nothing more than scorched earth. Don’t be surprised to see an announcement about Boise really soon.
HP continues its slow death.
“Yet another monument for the consequences of "Californification" - why would anyone pay double or triple for its employees?”
It comes down to knowledge and technical skill. The Palo Alto office isn’t going anywhere anytime soon and remains the company’s main HQ. I was hired from this location as a CW and get to work remotely alongside other CWs outsourced from India. My role involves reviewing and fixing their work and let me tell you that they make lots of errors. So it makes sense for HP to pay them less for what they are worth and to pay me more for what I am worth. In a nutshell the outsourced workers are field workers on the plantation and I’m the house worker who organizes the fruits of their labor and hands it over to some FTE that trades in the goods for $$$.
Yet another monument for the consequences of "Californification" - why would anyone pay double or triple for it's employees?
A major chunk of printer and app design, development and test teams are already layed off. Handful retained for remote option for other project. Appears one of major printer product line is ditched by HP.
HP will be under no legal obligation to pay any severance to employees who refuse to relocate. IBM used the same trick and so did AT&T. The relocation packages were so low at AT&T that many refused to relocate and simply quit.
"Rest will relocate to other sites, telework, or WFR."
Thanks for the inside information. FYI:
- Vancouver (WA) has broken ground on a very large campus. This partially explains why.
- Boise is only one building now and I suspect hardly anyone from SD will move to Boise.
- Engineers must work hybrid, and as such they must move from SD.
- This would mean layoffs for engineers in SD. It is a lot easier to hire locally in Vancouver than to relocate them.
At another smaller HP site and absolutely terrified
Glad I get to work from home