Friday, April 3, 2009

SAP layoffs

SAP appears to be executing its layoff plan this week, which it announced back in January. In an open letter then to employees, SAP co-CEOs Henning Kagermann and Leo Apotheker announced that the workforce reduction would impact 3000 employees, or 5.8% of SAP's workforce.

Although a small number of SAP folks were let go in January, the remaining number appear to coming in waves, one of which is occuring this week. I first noticed an increasing number of hits to the Spectator from Google, under keywords "SAP layoffs" earlier this week. The only confirmation seems to be coming from Twitter.

At a minimum, based on Twitter status updates, layoffs appear to be taking place in Palo Alto yesterday and today. There also appear to be some layoffs that took place in Israel last week, and in Australia the week before.

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