Monday, January 12, 2009

Seagate Corporation dismiss the tenth of each employee.

KommentariiNovogodnie zhertvy11.01.2009V the beginning of 2009 the company announced that tens of thousands of uvolennyhKorporatsiya Seagate, the leader in the market of production of hard disks, will dismiss up to 10 per cent of staff, writes The Register. As a result of the restructuring to reduce costs, the work could lose 5400 people.
In early December 2008, Seagate lowered forecast quarterly earnings from 2,85-3,05 billion to 2,3-2,6 billion dollars. Company director Bill Watkins said that the company remains profitable, with trehmilliardnyh turnovers, but should be prepared to reduce to two billion.
Is expected to officially on the mass dismissals of Seagate will be announced before the end of January. The second-largest company market, Western Digital, have already announced reductions. The works will lose up to 2500 employees.
According to Uotkinsa in industry production of hard disks can be only those players, like Seagate, Western Digital and Hitachi, as well as the new owner on sale of the branch Fujitsu.

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