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News Roundup: April brings showers of job losses
News Ericsson warns of 12,000 job losses Blair intervenes to prevent 3,000 mobile job losses Tue, 10 Apr Government acts to prevent Motorola job losses Although the markets have reacted positively to financial results from the likes of Apple, Intel and...
[April 19, 2001, 13:02]
Has HP underestimated job losses?
News US-based IT industry analyst Giga Information Group, believes job losses resulting from the merger of Hewlett Packard and Compaq have been underestimated greatly. While Hewlett-Packard estimates that it will have to terminate around 15,000 jobs...
[May 14, 2002, 10:51]
Blair intervenes to prevent 3,000 mobile job losses
News Prime minister Tony Blair has made a personal plea to Motorola amid fears the firm is poised to announce the closure of a mobile phone manufacturing plant in Scotland, with the loss of 3,000 jobs. An announcement,expected from the company on...
[April 10, 2001, 18:15]
EMC announces 2,400 job losses
News The job cuts will represent seven percent of the company's workforce, as part of a restructuring program that will also include consolidation of facilities and back-office functions, and a rebalancing of products and markets.
[January 8, 2009, 7:31]
HSBC job losses to hit IT workers
News HSBC has confirmed IT workers will be hit by the 1,100 job cuts announced by the bank announced on Friday, as the fallout from the global credit crunch continues. The cuts will affect the bank's global banking and markets operation.
[September 29, 2008, 9:58]
Job losses at BBC Technology
News More than two hundred jobs will be lost in the next two months in a major shake-up of the BBC's technology arm, said Greg Dyke Thursday. Director-general Dyke broke news of the cuts to staff at a meeting where he announced plans to form a new...
[July 7, 2000, 16:12]
Nokia's CDMA spat causes 500 job losses
News Nokia is cutting around 500 jobs at its San Diego campus — half the workforce at that location — following its decision to cut back its plans for CDMA technology, a rival standard to GSM which is used by one-fifth of the world's mobile phones...
[August 11, 2006, 9:55]
WorldCom job losses hit the UK
News The UK could bear the brunt of layoffs announced yesterday by US Internet service provider Worldcom, according to sources. WorldCom, which owns ISP UUNet, employs over 5,000 people in Britain. On Wednesday the company confirmed that it is to lay...
[May 3, 2001, 10:29]
US Report: NEC consolidation to result in 400 job losses
News The company will close its Fife, Versa notebook plant and transfer manufacturing operations to its California headquarters. NEC will also close its Now call centre facility, inside sales force, customer service and technical support staff and some...
[May 14, 1998, 9:33]
Analysts predict job losses at Dell
News According to industry experts Dell could lay off up to 4,000 staff Thursday, when it releases its financial results for the fourth quarter. Analysts at Salomon Smith Barney claimed Tuesday that the computer manufacturer was poised to cut jobs for...
[February 13, 2001, 16:30]
Barclays cuts 350 more IT jobs
News Job losses will take place in the Global Retail and Commercial Banking We are disappointed at the job losses in the middle of a recession and disappointed that Barclays is still offshoring, but are pleased at the extra security being offered at...
[May 13, 2009, 11:45]
Intelligent systems 'will take more jobs than outsourcing'
News So-called smart applications will soon cause more job losses than outsourcing, and policymakers will need to tread cautiously to minimise the effect of this new trend, a new report warns. This wave of job losses will follow the elimination of as...
[June 25, 2004, 15:35]
HP contractors at DWP vote on strike action
News HP contractors working for the Department for Work and Pensions will vote on whether to strike over job losses and pay. 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.
[November 19, 2009, 9:51]
BT to announce job cuts
News BT is to announce a number of job losses when it issues its latest financial results next week. However, another spokesperson said on Thursday that the reorganisation was "always going to entail job losses".
[November 1, 2007, 10:50]
HP: EDS job cuts won't affect service delivery
News More details of the job losses at IT outsourcer EDS and its parent company HP are expected to emerge on Friday, following Wednesday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years. A spokeswoman for HP, which completed its...
[October 10, 2008, 9:59]
The Year Ahead: Skills trends for 2002
News 2001 was notable for being one of the worst years for job losses in the tech sector for the last two decades, with the market affected by the devastating effects of 11 September and the economic downturn.
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
NEC announced 20,000 job cuts
Blog NEC announced on Friday that it will cut 20,000 jobs amongst the largest lost by companies blaming the economic slowdown and poor exchange rates for job losses. The biggest number of IT jobs lost in the UK so far has been 10,000 announced by BT...
[February 2, 2009, 16:24]
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. At the time it insisted that the move would not involve any job losses. However, Scotland has already seen recent job cuts...
[July 31, 2001, 11:56]
Online job ads keep sliding
News Losses were registered in all 21 industry groups with Multimedia Internet and Graphics the hardest hit, suffering a fall of 30 percent. The more traditional industries such as law and accounting have been the most successful this year, although...
[January 7, 2002, 12:25]
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 Wednesday 25th July Analysts take a dim view of Amazon's latest losses and growth expectations
[July 26, 2001, 10:35]
