HP cuts thousands of jobs as PC demand slumps
Enterprises PC sales fall as global economic worries persist
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HPhas announced it intends to cut 10% of its workforce as the company adjusts to falling demand forbusiness computersandmobile workstationsas enterprises everywhere continue recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The computing giant hasrevealedits 2022 fiscal year results, showing fourth quarter revenues down 14.8% compared to the same period last year.
The cuts, which will impact anywhere from 4,000 to 6,000 employees, may lay struggles bare not just for HP, but for PC manufacturers at large, as companies may be buying less equipment to accommodate goodhybrid workingpractices, andcutting tech stack costsamid an ongoing recession.
HP’s cost cutting measures
As noted by theWall Street Journal, the mass layoffs come after HP expanded the workforce by around 10,000 workers compared to this time last year.
However, the company has realized that there are other ways to save money beyond throwing away the lives of ordinary employees also trying to stay afloat in a cost of living crisis.
In what it calls its “Fiscal year 2023 Future Ready transformation” and anyone else might call “a slew of cost-cutting measures”, HP claimed it would make savings across around “digital transformation, portfolio optimization and operational efficiency”.
One specific example it gave was taking advantage of plummeting demand for hardware by relying on less expensive, slower sea freight deliveries as opposed to faster air freight.
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HP’s announcement of new cost-cutting strategies comes after the publication ofdatashowing that PC demand across the entire hardware manufacturing industry is tailing off at the fastest rate it has in two decades, with no sign of stopping.
Evidence for this lies in the WSJ’s recent reports thatIntelandAdvanced Micro Devices(AMD) are also turning to cost-cutting measures in order to ease economic strain.
Luke Hughes holds the role of Staff Writer at TechRadar Pro, producing news, features and deals content across topics ranging from computing to cloud services, cybersecurity, data privacy and business software.
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