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Yahoo begins layoffs
News Yahoo began issuing pink slips on Wednesday to the majority of the employees affected by its previously announced 10 percent job cut, the company confirmed. The start-up intended to give free tacos to the recently terminated employees, as well as...
[December 11, 2008, 7:22]
Homerton University Hospital Accelerates Employee Learning Through Integrated and Personalized Training
White Papers The challenge was to provide refresher courses, post-upgrade training, and on-the-job instruction to meet needs of staff at all levels and job functions and cut learning budget while providing high-quality training on an increasing number of...
[July 1, 2008, 1:01]
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]
Adobe to shed 9pc of workforce
News The layoff, which was disclosed on Tuesday in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, marks the second wave of job cuts in the past year. The spokesperson declined to provide any UK-specific details of planned job losses.
[November 11, 2009, 8:48]
IT jobs in firing line at RBS
News The job losses are part of a bank-wide effort to cut £2.5bn in costs which, on 7 April, saw the organisation announce plans to shed around 9,000 jobs globally — including around 4,500 positions in the UK.
[May 26, 2009, 8:36]
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]
HP contractors at DWP vote on strike action
News Since then, 3,400 staff have been cut across all operations, but employees now face a further 1,000 job losses and a pay freeze. Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary, said of members: "Their reward is more job cuts, imposed pay freezes and pleas...
[November 19, 2009, 9:51]
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]
Microsoft lays off 3,000 workers
News Although it did not announce further layoffs, the fact that the company has already made nearly all the reductions under the January plan means further job actions will have to come under a new round of cuts.
[May 5, 2009, 17:51]
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]
Union warns: HP job cuts threaten gov't IT
News PCS national officer Jim Hanson said: "Not only are we concerned about our members' job security, but also the threat to the security of government data which would result if staff are cut further. With regard to possible job losses, a spokesperson...
[September 18, 2008, 8:29]
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]
