Palm laying off staffers as part of the HP acquisition?

By on Jul 2, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Rumor July 2, 2010

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While the world is focused on HP and the future of webOS, some Palm employees are reportedly pondering their own future after they were handed pink slips this week. According to an unnamed source, “many” employees were supposedly laid off in the days just prior to the completion of the HP/Palm merger. The source did not quote numbers or name names so the total sum of people and positions that were removed are unknown. HP and Palm have not publicly disclosed any reduction in the work force so we will have to wait for these ex-Palm employees to come out of the wood work to either confirm or refute this rumor. Anyone willing to stand up and be counted?

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  • alex

    didn’t read it, just wanted to comment, bout to read it, NO WORRY

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • midibite

    The tards need to be fired for not promoting webOS the way it should have been promoted. Whoever they are, hand them a pink slip and tell them to have a nice day.

    • iName

      it’s probably the lower ranking employees that are getting fired, all the people responsible for webOS left.

  • MikeD

    It was inevitable.

  • Tdot34

    Duhhh this is usually what happens during corporate take-overs or mergers. There are bound to be some job duplications. My guess is the only people HP will keep around are the WebOS developers, everyone else at Palm was pretty much useless, especially the upper management.

    • strider_mt2k

      Specifically the “management”.

  • bullyboyben

    The world does not reward laziness. Laziness eventually catches up with you.

    Pass me my BB storm. (3g check, clear screen no yellow patches check, aerial working check everything check.)

    Laziness is catching up to someone, jobs.(rubbing hands together, he he)

  • NuShrike

    This is just corporate BS where an outside party with no concept that people build and support companies lays down the line that the former-Palm honchos need to cut X number of people for no other reason than number crunching. This means people that knew the product best, were highly valued or put in the time to be walk up the pay tree, are immediately cut because they’re “redundant” or cost too much.

    This is about as bad is rebooting an OS because Palm is immediately going to loose a lot of valuable talent, and the people left are going to have to pick up the pieces while working long hours to figure how things used to be done.

    This is typical of any corporate reorg, and the only winner is the padding on an Exec’s resume.

    • strider_mt2k

      Yes, because Palm had it so spot-on to begin with that they sold the stuff that made them great, were a money pit for many years while they re-issued the Treo in various forms, bungled the Pre and were bought out by another company.

      Yeah, I’d want to separate the wheat from the chaff too at this point.

  • F1

    Palm has been a failing company for many years:

    1.First with touch screen, that is about it!!
    2.Garnet vintage Pam OS, no upgrade for far too long
    3.The ancient Hardware…500/550/600/650/700/750
    4.To little too late change, with 800 and HTC’s 850
    5.Zero score in customer service or tech support
    6.Miserable marketing on WebOS
    7.All eggs in one basket with SPRINT

    I am on my third Palm Pro 850,
    SPRINT will not replace this masterpiece of garbage, with any other “smartphone”, since they are sitting on an inventory of too many refurbs!!
    With MS Mobile 6.0 as the ultimate nightmare OS, it is the perfect mobile torture device, within 45 days of purchasing it from SPRINT, Palm declared it’s termination of support and relationship with the MS
    Mobile, so no upgrade to 6.5 after all the promises, passing the buck to the devil himself, aka Microsoft.

    Yes, the writing has been on the wall over the past decade, just take a look at their ever shrinking marketshare, especially after the introduction of the iPhone back in 2007.
    WebOS is the only asset left in the Palm bin,
    HP should maximize and utilize it’s capacity and talent, to market WebOS within the Tablet/Netbook category, maybe even licence the OS to HTC!

    Thank You

  • The_Truth

    While I’m cautious to be too optimistic and as much as I do not like layoffs Tdot34′s right like it or not at post M&As this is a given.HP naturally didn’t have much options and of course they wouldn’t wanna deal with additional redundant costs.

    So long as they don’t prescribe to MS’ mobile approach OR if they can figure out a way to NOT repeat old Palm’s mistakes they’ll be fine.

    We need WebOS to merry it up.

    /signed Android fan.

  • http://alghienkad06.student.ipb.ac.id/ thea

    was inevitable.

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