HP wird bis zu 6.000 Mitarbeiter entlassen, da es voll auf KI und Automatisierung setzt
https://www.techspot.com/news/110400-hp-lay-off-up-6000-workers-goes-all.html
HP wird bis zu 6.000 Mitarbeiter entlassen, da es voll auf KI und Automatisierung setzt
https://www.techspot.com/news/110400-hp-lay-off-up-6000-workers-goes-all.html
13 Kommentare
HP is lucky that they still even exist.
AI won’t be able to do what these people do. Greedy corporations just want to cut cost and boost profits.
HP is long overdue bankruptcy, hopefully this pushes them over the edge.
How the fuck is AI gonna fix my printer?
Fuck HP
Who is even left at HP?
So all their current hardware will be null in a matter of days?
I’m sure that having AI agents do all your workflows won’t impact quality at all!
The enshittification continues. Ensloppification?
Go to their career page, like 1/4 of their job openings are in India.
What they mean is, hiring actual indians to save on cost
Got rid of my hp printer 5 months ago. Horrible company
I will never own own another HP product. When my work docking station monitor quits working or I upgrade, that is the last one.
No need to even bring up printers.
Title should be: HP to lay off 6,000. Will tell investors that they are using the money they would pay in salaries to pay AI vendors for workslop.
This reads like a very familiar playbook: mature company with slowing growth discovers „AI“ and „automation“ at the exact same time it discovers it needs to cut costs to keep EPS trending up. The layoffs are real, the AI is mostly a story told to investors. If you look at the last decade, HP has been far more active in buybacks and cost-cutting than in building category-defining products. That tells you where the real strategy is.
I’m not saying AI and automation won’t improve their internal efficiency. Of course they will at the margin. But the framing matters. If this were truly about a bold new AI future, you’d see huge R&D ramp, product bets, and talent inflows, not thousands of people shown the door while management narrates „transformation“ on earnings calls. It’s closer to financial engineering: compress opex, point to „AI pivot,“ hope for multiple expansion.
What I genuinely wonder is: what is HP’s actual differentiated AI product here, something specific users or enterprises would choose over existing tools? Because if the answer is fuzzy „AI-enhanced printing and PCs,“ then we’re not talking about a tech revolution, we’re talking about a cost-cutting cycle with nicer marketing.