While Lenovo is facing cutbacks and sluggish sales, the company right ahead of it in global PC sales -- Dell, Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) -- is going through some of the same motions. Not only has CEO Michael Dell changed the top management last week, it will continue shedding jobs. As of this morning, the PC maker announced that it would lay off 1,900 workers in Ireland at its main plant there and shift production to Poland instead.So, U.S. workers are not the only ones feeling the unemployment pinch. In addition to moving all production work to Poland for the EMEA region, Dell will also move parts of the previous Irish production to third-party manufacturers -- something that outgoing operations chief Mike Cannon was an expert at.
Dell's about-to-be former Limerick, Ireland facility was opened in 1990 and employed 4,500 people at its peak. With swings in the global economy and the PC market, though, it's now going away. Dell's status as Ireland's largest single exporter may be at stake after the Limerick facility is closed, but that's not entirely clear yet. The PC maker will continue to operate its sales and marketing division in Dublin as well as keeping open its Global Innovation Solutions Center in Limerick.
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1-08-2009 @ 11:54AM
BHarrison said...
Just today . . . 1,000 to be laid off by Walgreen . . . another 1,900 by Dell . . . and it isn't even lunch time yet.
How many TENS of MILLIONS will be laid off in 2009? And we are only a week into the year.
If one projects the layoffs that have been announced previously, which is only the beginning of it all . . . and then estimate the domino impact from that, and the other anticipated layoffs, and corporate downsizings, well, it is going to be a staggering amount of unemployed people.
Congress IS THE MAIN CULPRIT in all of this. All of this wouldhave been totally avoided if Congress (the Senate has oversight of the Fed) had reqired that all mortgage loan applicants be fully prequalified for their respective loans; and if congress had implmented reasonably prudent regulations and oversight of the FIs, the corporations, and the markets, then VIRTUALLLY NONE of these FRAUDS would have occurred, at least not to a significant extent.
Meanwhile, the INEPT, INCOMPETENT, and/or CORRUPT Congressmen who tacitly allowed all of this to occur, are now in charge of the recovery efforts . . . Isn't that like putting the criminal in charge of the investigation of his crime scene?