Oracle lays off PeopleSoft staff by post
News Oracle appears to be adding insult to injury in its merger with PeopleSoft -- taking the unusual step of notifying workers of their termination by sending "pink slips", the US equivalent of P45s, via express mail to their homes.
[January 14, 2005, 8:15]
Yahoo job cuts due on Wednesday
News A report on Dow Jones's AllThingsD site notes that the pink slips are expected on Wednesday morning and will be across the board. Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang noted in his post-quarterly earnings email to employees in late October that those...
[December 9, 2008, 12:14]
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. Most of the approximately 1,500 layoffs affect employees at Yahoo's US-based locations and...
[December 11, 2008, 7:22]
Symantec trims workforce to cut costs
News Symantec this week started sending out pink slips to employees across the company as part of a cost-reduction effort. The Cupertino, California-based security and database-management software maker in January set a goal to reduce its cost structure...
[March 16, 2007, 8:16]
Siebel employees face nervous wait
News With the megamerger between Oracle and Siebel closed, Wall Street analysts are forecasting pink slips for Siebel employees. But Siebel, a large vendor of CRM software, may not be the only one to feel the pain.
[February 9, 2006, 10:05]
IBM begins layoffs
News IBM began handing out pink slips to employees on Thursday, the first step in anticipated companywide cutbacks. IBM has notified approximately 1,000 employees in its server division that their jobs are being eliminated, according to a representative...
[May 24, 2002, 14:29]
Scour lays off 52 employees
News Saying an entertainment industry lawsuit has scared off financial backers, Scour handed 52 of its 64 employees pink slips Friday afternoon. Scour, backed by super agent Michael Ovitz, was sued in July by three entertainment industry associations...
[September 4, 2000, 11:21]
IT workers in US 'less anxious' about job market
News Seventeen percent of US workers in general said they feared pink slips in the near future. Information technology workers' confidence in the job market -- and in their ability to hold on to their jobs -- rose again in August, a study found.
[September 2, 2004, 9:50]
HP: Waiting for the axe to fall
Leader HP is operating on "a cost structure that is off benchmark in many areas" was Hurd's carefully worded, if not very subtle, way of signposting the imminent arrival of a blizzard of pink slips. Another week, another IT stalwart plans a swathe of job...
[May 23, 2005, 14:05]
i-mate reportedly trims US ops
Blog There have apparently been delays in getting its new Ultimate range out, drawn-out wrangles with operators, and now a volley of pink slips. i-mate are one of those companies who used to be a big name in the Windows Mobile handset market, partly...
[March 3, 2008, 9:15]
Where's your job going?
News In an outsourcing tide, the key to survival is to be prepared and to know that it's coming long before CIOs begin handing out pink slips. You read about it every day -- another corporate giant announces it's outsourcing its entire support division...
[May 5, 2004, 15:35]
Siebel profits vanish, as do 250 jobs
News The company, which began handing out pink slips on Monday, has trimmed staff back twice before, eliminating about 1,100 jobs in July and nearly 750 in April of 2001. Siebel Systems said it will trim 250 jobs by the end of June, following a dismal...
[April 24, 2003, 14:04]
Oracle to axe thousands of staff
News Delivery of the layoff notices has already begun, and the bulk of the pink slips will be handed out in the next few weeks. Oracle outlined its integration plans for Siebel on Thursday, with 2,000 job cuts among the most notable tasks at hand.
[February 10, 2006, 8:30]
Netscape.com to become portal for Time Warner content
News About 2,000 of the company's 85,000 employees received pink slips Tuesday, including 100 staffers in the New Line Cinema film studio, according to one source. AOL Time Warner is taking steps to dramatically refocus its flagging Netscape subsidiary...
[January 24, 2001, 10:48]
Huge HP job cuts feared
News Not all cuts have been in the form of pink slips, though: 1,900 employees took advantage of a voluntary severance plan in the imaging and printing division. HP is likely to lay off thousands more employees, financial analysts have projected after...
[May 23, 2005, 9:05]
News Roundup: April brings showers of job losses
News Thu, 19 Apr Suffering from a sharp drop in demand, the handheld maker starts doling out pink slips and finding other ways to tighten its belt While the British economy is still experiencing growth, workers this side of the Atlantic are not immune...
[April 19, 2001, 13:02]
IBM layoffs hit apps services unit, says union
News IBM issued 1,674 layoff notices to US employees in its applications services business on Thursday, as part of a larger round of anticipated cuts to its Global Business Services unit, according to a national representative of Alliance@IBM, an...
[March 27, 2009, 9:12]
Securing good security workers
News Consumer and business security firm Symantec on 22 August will host a Webcast to assist employers in recruiting, training and retaining network security employees, highlighting one of the few bright spots in the information technology job market.
[August 22, 2002, 9:14]
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. Late last month, Palm said it would trim 10 percent to 15 percent of its workers and contractors...
[April 19, 2001, 9:17]
AltaVista: Lays off 200 people
News Troubled Web portal, AltaVista, said Thursday it has laid off 200 employees, or about 25 percent of its staff, in its latest attempt to cut costs and reach profitability. Company spokesman David Emanuel said most laid-off employees are in the...
[January 19, 2001, 10:59]
