Check out the article following that one.

"United benefits for those left standing: Human resources (remember when it
was called Personnel?) and IT (remember when it was called MIS?) are
scrambling to unify all workplace benefits by the end of the month, which
also happens to be the end of the fiscal year. "What we're doing is having
to transition employees from two separate programs to one," said CEO Carly
Fiorina at a symposium in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., (think Disney World)
earlier this month. "We feel reasonably good about our progress there,
although employees would like us to go faster, not slower." HP will have
also reached a goal employees would like them to go slower on, not faster:
Within the next nine days, HP will reach its goal of slashing 10,000 jobs.
Only 6,800 more to go."



-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne R. Boyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:14 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Tacky, tacky, tacky...

As reported tomorrow(?!) by INSIDEHP... for those of you who don't get this
e-pub...

need I post my opinion about this?

    I N S I D E H P--Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2002

> Insult to injury: The Reading (England) Chronicle reports that 40
accounting
> employees and 15 IT workers at the former Compaq office who's jobs are
> moving to Bangalore, India, are furious-but not just because they are out
> of work. The employees claim they have been promised bonuses if they stay
> on to train the Indian workers who will replace them, for much lower
wages.
> HP said in a statement to the newspaper that 20 employees were affected.
> The company added: read: "For the past two years, HP has concentrated its
> internal financial services into three Global Business Centers, located in
> India, Mexico and Spain. As a result of the merger with Compaq, this
> program is being extended to include Compaq's internal accounting
> operations. In the UK, approximately 20 employees might be impacted by
this
> integration process and have been notified of the proposal. HP can confirm
> that the proposal involves the functions of these individuals being taken
> over by the Global Business Center based in Bangalore. This transition
> would take place during the next three months."
>

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