This from Computer Daily News:
Notices of dismissal are due to start flying around Lenovo Australia/New Zealand in the next few months as a proportion of 1,400 jobs to go in the restructuring are lost locally.
Lenovo’s local spokeswoman Heather Jones says the jobs (though presumably not always the incumbents) will move to ’emerging markets’ such as Brazil, China and Malaysia. So far the finger is pointed at operations and finance but there’s no confirmation of which positions and numbers will be affected.
However, Jones says, where possible, local staff will be offered comparable positions in marketing, sales and business development, elsewhere in the Chinese-owned company, or redundancy packages.
Sources in the company said in New York that the shakeout is designed to change the corporate culture, which is still largely inherited from its previous owner, IBM. One analyst blamed the continuing Big Blue ‘hierarchical’ structure and bureaucracy.
Source: Computer Daily News