{"id":12840,"date":"2012-05-18T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2012-05-18T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T08:59:33","slug":"hp-might-cut-jobs-by-8-10-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/12840\/hp-might-cut-jobs-by-8-10-source\/","title":{"rendered":"HP might cut jobs by 8-10% &#8211; source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Hewlett-Packard Co\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2007-Hewlett-Packard\">Hewlett-Packard Co<\/a> is considering cutting its workforce by 8 to 10 percent, or a minimum of 25,000 jobs, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as newly installed CEO <a title=\"Meg Whitman\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2130-Meg-Whitman\">Meg Whitman<\/a> strives to return the storied Silicon Valley institution to growth.<\/p>\n<p>The job cuts, which could include retirements, are under discussion but have not been finalized, several people familiar with the situation told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts had expected job cuts, first reported by Business Insider in the wake of Whitman&#8217;s plan to merge the personal computer and printer divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of HP, the leading PC maker, were unchanged at $22.05 in afternoon trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hewlett-Packard Co is considering cutting its workforce by 8 to 10 percent, or a minimum of 25,000 jobs, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as newly installed CEO Meg Whitman strives to return the storied Silicon Valley institution to growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,273,2857],"class_list":["post-12840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-job-cut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12847,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12840\/revisions\/12847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}