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Lenovo has begun making about 550 job cuts across Europe, after the Beijing-based PC vendor's latest earnings showed its shipment numbers dropped faster than the industry average in every market except China. Lenovo spokesman Ray Gorman confirmed the layoffs, saying the European action is in line with its worldwide …

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  1. Pete James

    What you mean is......

    Lenovo are removing the cost of staff who have a clue about their local regions and scrapping the hard-won brand reputation gained from years of work by IBM and the efforts over the last 4 years by the incumbent staff.

    They will replace the local knowledge and expertise that helps them to win accounts based on quality products and good service with global support based in cheap labour markets within Eastern Europe and the Indian sub continent, and have a single, worldwide brand push based on one common theme.

    Cheap.

    To the company heads of Lenovo; Hide behind your words if you like but you're not that smart. You've now shown everyone how spineless, uninspiring and greedy you truly are.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    That's HP, IBM, Lenovo, EMC, Sun, NetApp. Dell?

    For those keeeping score:

    HP announced 20,000+ just after the EDS merger.

    IBM apparently had two rounds, not sure of numbers.

    Sun's messy.

    EMC 8%

    NetApp 6%

    Dell next?

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