HP's divide, layoff and conquer strategy a challenge for managers

On Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced the company plans to lay off go an additional 25,000 to 30,000 workers in an attempt to "enable a more competitive, sustainable cost structure" for the new company -- or, companies.

Whitman says the job cuts are part of a larger restructuring of HP into two separate companies: HP Enterprise, which will focus on cutting-edge, high-growth technologies like cloud and cybersecurity while HP Inc. will stick with slower-growth commodity solutions like printers and PCs.

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