惠普公司再次裁員16,000人 牽扯甚大
On Thursday, the tech company posted profits per share of 66 cents on revenues of $27.3 billion, which were down 1% from a year earlier. In comparison, Wall Street had predicted revenues of $27.5 billion. Sales in its personal computer business climbed 7% year-over-year while dropping 4% for printers and 2% in the enterprise division. The news leaked early when HP prematurely distributed its earnings press release more than an hour before the earnings call.
週四，這家科技公司公佈每股利潤爲66美分，收入273億美元，同比下降了1%。華爾街預測的收入爲275億美元。個人電腦業務的銷售額年比增長了7%，但打印機和企業部門卻分別減少了4%和2%。惠普在業績發佈會前一個多小時就對外散發了業績新聞稿，導致消息提前泄露。"We think the mix of revenues (strong PCs and weak every other segment) is concerning especially if the PC cycle starts to slow down post the initial benefit from Windows XP end of life cycle," RBC Capital Markets analyst Amit Daryanani noted in a report.
加拿大皇家資本市場（RBC Capital Markets）分析師阿米特o德萊納裏在一份報告中表示：“我們認爲，這種收入組合（強勁的PC業務和疲軟的其他部門）令人憂慮，尤其是在Windows XP系統壽命終結帶來的初期的好處之後，個人電腦更換週期開始放緩。”
The layoffs could also be cause for concern. HP, which remains in the midst of a challenging turnaround under CEO Meg Whitman, had previously projected it would cut 34,000 jobs, double the number it announced in 2012 as part of a major multi-year restructuring plan. The plan was expected to save HP as much as $3.5 billion annually and help the company invest further in areas like research and development, as well as marketing. Now, with the revised layoff figure, the company expects a total of 41,000 to leave by the end of fiscal year 2014 and the remaining number departing the following year.
裁員也是令人擔憂的問題。惠普仍在CEO梅格o惠特曼的帶領下進行艱難轉型。之前，這家公司曾預測，作爲多年重組計劃的一部分，公司將裁員34,000人，比2012年宣佈的數字翻了一番。這個計劃預計每年將爲惠普節省35億美元，可幫助公司進行其他領域的投資，例如研發和市場營銷等。而根據此次修改的裁員數據，到2014財年年底，公司預計將裁員41,000人，剩餘人員則在下一財年離開公司。
