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AMD Plans Layoffs, Outsourcing
News Advanced Micro Devices is expected to lay out a restructuring plan that will include more job cuts. An AMD representative said Wednesday that the plan will also include more job cuts. For all job and work-related news, or to search for a job and...
[November 7, 2002, 10:31]
Palm Begins Hefty Job Cuts
News Handheld maker Palm began making large-scale job cuts Wednesday and, according to internal documents, has been detailing other ways it will cut costs. They will then receive severance of two months to four months, based on their job classification...
[April 19, 2001, 9:17]
HP Cuts 1,000 UK Jobs
News Most of the UK job losses are set to go in human resources, IT and finance. Earlier this year HP warned that job cuts were coming with IT, sales and services among the areas particularly vulnerable. HP is to cut just under 1,000 jobs in the UK over...
[September 13, 2005, 18:30]
Tech Agency Scouts For 'talent'
News People who make the cut will get job placement, concierge services and opportunities for speaking engagements. Unlike traditional staffing firms, which match people to specific job openings, the Carrera Agency scouts hotshot tech jocks with the...
[January 17, 2003, 15:11]
IBM Cutting 15,000 Jobs
News Layoffs began earlier this year as a way to cut costs, but the company until now had not specified the extent of the job cuts. The job cuts exceed earlier analysts estimates, which hovered around the 9,000 level.
[August 14, 2002, 9:45]
600 Jobs Lost At NEC's Scottish Chip Plant
News The chip maker confirmed fears that its restructuring efforts would include job losses from the plant, based in Livingston. However, Scotland has already seen recent job cuts in the tech sector, with Motorola's Bathgate manufacturing plant closing...
[July 31, 2001, 11:56]
News Roundup: Tech Companies Face Clouded Future
News Friday 27th July 2001 World's top supplier of fibre-optic components reports losses of $50.6bn and increases job cuts to 16,000 Friday 27th July Ignite corporate data business likely to be hit with 1,500 job cuts as profits slump - but BT is now...
[July 26, 2001, 10:35]
Compaq: Sales To Fall, More Layoffs Loom
News Compaq Computer announced Tuesday that it expects to post second-quarter operating earnings in line with Wall Street estimates, but said sales will come in below forecasts and announced further job cuts.
[July 11, 2001, 11:45]
Analysis: What Labour Should Do With The E-minister
News As she takes her seat in the Cabinet, her replacement will have his or her job cut out with disputes raging over broadband, e-government and the so-called digital divide. There have been rumours that with Hewitt moved to a Cabinet post, the e...
[May 10, 2001, 11:15]
IT Contracting: Making A Comeback?
News For all job and work-related news, or to search for a job and get information on training, go to ZDNet Jobs. Henderson believes that one of the reasons for increased demand for IT contractors in Western Australia is a result of companies finding...
[November 22, 2002, 11:15]
Linux Company Lineo Lays Off 13 Percent
News Ball, a Lineo cofounder, is exchanging his job at the company for an equivalent position at a newly established public relations company that will contract with Lineo. Also leaving the communications staff is Blake Stowell, who has taken a job at...
[July 20, 2001, 11:37]
Gateway Slashes Earnings Forecast
News The San Diego-based company also estimates that a one-time charge to first-quarter earnings will be between $150m (£91m) and $275m, including a previously announced estimate of $50m for job eliminations and related matters.
[March 1, 2001, 8:20]
IBM Cuts 700 Services Jobs
News The job cuts come after the elimination of about 380 jobs last week in the company's Software Group, as part of a similar review process. All of the employees affected by the services job cuts will be offered the opportunity to apply for other...
[October 2, 2003, 16:20]
AOL To Continue Layoffs
News The source added that job eliminations would begin in December and affect many departments across the board. Soon after the layoffs, AOL began advertising a job opening for a global program manager to coordinate the outsourcing of software...
[November 3, 2004, 10:33]
Sun Announces Job Cuts
News The server giant expects to incur charges of $100m (£49m) to $150m over the next several quarters, largely as a result of the job cuts. Sun's board of directors approved the job cuts last week as part of a plan to "better align the company's...
[August 8, 2007, 15:12]
ShortFall? From An Ex Student
Talkback To cut his short the skills are there they are just being over looked and most graduates cannot get a job using the skills they went to uni to get and even with the job the wages are normally lower. Being a graduate in IT i was among a great deal...
[February 13, 2008, 8:19]
HP-Compaq Merger Means More Job Cuts
News HP's job cuts came after the company had already announced several rounds of other cost cuts, including asking workers to take either a 10 percent pay cut or eight additional vacation days by the end of October.
[September 5, 2001, 14:41]
IT Contractors Facing Pay Cuts
News For all job and work related news, or to search for a job and get information on training, go to ZDNet Jobs Shout99, a news Web site for contract workers, has reported that both Credit Suisse First Boston and Hewlett-Packard have cut contractors...
[July 25, 2001, 12:22]
The Year Ahead: Skills Trends For 2003
News Job losses have continued on a large scale especially in the telecom sector. IT contractors in 2002 experienced drops in hourly rates of pay in four out of 49 job roles monitored by the Computer Weekly/SSP Quarterly Survey.
[December 27, 2002, 6:24]
Troubled Marconi Trims Yet More Jobs
News He added that the troubled telecoms group is hoping to secure the 1,000 job cuts through voluntary redundancies, although compulsory lay-offs cannot be ruled out. For all job and work-related news, or to search for a job and get information on...
[August 9, 2002, 11:27]
