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HPE's Black Thursday: Staff face pay cuts or the ax, office closures to save $1bn+ after coronavirus slams IT titan

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Re: So, slashing headcount again ?

New hires will get provisional positions so that they can be fired without additional expense once the immediate crisis has passed. That 'immediate crisis' is usually caused by laying off someone that was unexpectedly a key person, often someone that quietly did a difficult or knowledge-intensive job and made it look easy and easily-replaced.

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