Palm cuts more jobs

Zardon · Feb 28, 2003, 11:58 PM

Palm Inc. laid off about 50 people at its hardware unit on Thursday in response to declining demand for handheld computers, a company spokeswoman said Friday.

The cuts bring the total workforce reduction at the hardware part of Palm, the Palm Solutions Group, to just over 100 jobs in the third quarter of the company's fiscal year 2003, which ends Friday, the spokeswoman said.

Combined with the layoffs announced earlier at operating system subsidiary PalmSource Inc., the cutbacks over the past three months amount to about 19 percent of the total combined workforce, the spokeswoman said. Palm now employs around 900 people, she said. That compares with 1,124 on Nov. 29, 2002, the last day of the second quarter of Palm's fiscal year 2003, according to Palm's Web site.

PalmSource Inc., which is being spun off from Palm Inc., earlier this month said it reduced its headcount by 18 percent without giving any further numbers.

Palm has been restructuring heavily as it faces a depressed market. The worldwide PDA (personal digital assistant) market saw its first-ever decline in 2002 with shipments down over 9 percent from 2001, research firm Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc., said earlier this month.

For the three months ended Nov. 29, 2002, Palm reported a net profit of US$3.52 million on revenue of $264.9 million, according to the company's Web site. Palm is scheduled to release its third fiscal quarter earnings on March 20. Joris Evers

kinetic · Mar 1, 2003, 07:45 PM

Hmmm! I wonder what's behind the fall in demand for hand-helds?

Could be that mobile phones are becoming more advanced.

Feb 28, 2003, 11:58 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	Palm cuts more jobs Palm Inc. laid off about 50 people at its hardware unit on Thursday in response to declining demand for handheld computers, a company spokeswoman said Friday. The cuts bring the total workforce reduction at the hardware part of Palm, the Palm Solutions Group, to just over 100 jobs in the third quarter of the company's fiscal year 2003, which ends Friday, the spokeswoman said. Combined with the layoffs announced earlier at operating system subsidiary PalmSource Inc., the cutbacks over the past three months amount to about 19 percent of the total combined workforce, the spokeswoman said. Palm now employs around 900 people, she said. That compares with 1,124 on Nov. 29, 2002, the last day of the second quarter of Palm's fiscal year 2003, according to Palm's Web site. PalmSource Inc., which is being spun off from Palm Inc., earlier this month said it reduced its headcount by 18 percent without giving any further numbers. Palm has been restructuring heavily as it faces a depressed market. The worldwide PDA (personal digital assistant) market saw its first-ever decline in 2002 with shipments down over 9 percent from 2001, research firm Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Inc., said earlier this month. For the three months ended Nov. 29, 2002, Palm reported a net profit of US$3.52 million on revenue of $264.9 million, according to the company's Web site. Palm is scheduled to release its third fiscal quarter earnings on March 20. Joris Evers

Mar 1, 2003, 07:45 PM	#2
kinetic DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester England Posts: 2,559 Rep Power: 0	Hmmm! I wonder what's behind the fall in demand for hand-helds? Could be that mobile phones are becoming more advanced.