Yeah, I worked for HP just before these changes, and let me tell you, its all a sham.
The real reason they are doing this is to force attrition. They are bloated at IT and HP in general, and want to do a massive slashing of the workforce. How better to do it, and not have to pay severence than to start making live horrible for everyone so they will just quit.
For years and years they allowed employees to migrate across the globe, to a point where I was working with people from Reno, SD, Hong Kong, Hawaii (!!), etc and no one ever came into an office. I lived 10 minutes from the PA headquarters and I also came in rarely since there was no-one around. Now after allowing people to build their lives in the town of their choice, they are demanding everyone move back. Obviously they know that someone who has kids in school and their lives built around their home are not going to move just to work in a dramatically cost conscious and overworked IT shop.
Although I know it had to happen with the aging and slacking workforce of HP, its still quite sad to see one of the last of the companies that really cared for the line workers to adopt to the new age of corporate executive and shareholder greed and win-at-any-cost mentality.
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Yeah, I worked for HP just before these changes, and let me tell you, its all a sham. The real reason they are doing this is to force attrition. They are bloated at IT and HP in general, and want to do a massive slashing of the workforce. How better to do it, and not have to pay severence than to start making live horrible for everyone so they will just quit. For years and years they allowed employees to migrate across the globe, to a point where I was working with people from Reno, SD, Hong Kong, Hawaii (!!), etc and no one ever came into an office. I lived 10 minutes from the PA headquarters and I also came in rarely since there was no-one around. Now after allowing people to build their lives in the town of their choice, they are demanding everyone move back. Obviously they know that someone who has kids in school and their lives built around their home are not going to move just to work in a dramatically cost conscious and overworked IT shop. Although I know it had to happen with the aging and slacking workforce of HP, its still quite sad to see one of the last of the companies that really cared for the line workers to adopt to the new age of corporate executive and shareholder greed and win-at-any-cost mentality.