Intel to cut 10-15% of Chinese staff
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Worldwide job-cuts at Intel Corporation are mainly concentrated in the Sales & Marketing Group (SMG). China is no exception, with 10 to 15 percent of staff expected to lose their jobs.
The future of Intel was announced this morning at an internal Webex meeting presided over by Paul Otellini, Intel's chief executive officer.
It is estimated that more than 100 employees will lose their jobs in China from the marketing sector. The sales department, on the contrary, will take on extra staff.
A senior official at Intel China revealed to the National Business Daily yesterday that some departments would be cut entirely and that others would be combined. Intel will cut out some of the non-essential or inefficient departments according to the suggestions of consultants. Some employees will lose their jobs or be transferred to other departments. In the meantime, the company will be streamlined to enhance the efficiency of decision-making and implementation.
The Channel Platform Group, which was founded just last year, will be dropped from Intel's five groups (Mobility Group, Digital Enterprise Group, Digital Home Group, Digital Health Group and Channel Platform Group). The worldwide organizations of this group will be merged into the SMG.
Employees in the Shanghai region seem to have been prepared for this move. An anonymous staff member at Zizhu Science-based Industrial Park said that although his department had not announced a compensation scheme, some other departments had told their staff what would be happening.