The Oregon Live newspaper reported that Intel will cut up to 2,392 vacancies in Oregon and about 4,000 in its American operations, including Arizona, California and Texas. The information confirms last month’s rumor of the company planned to fire up to 20% of its chip manufacturing employees.
However, reality can be more surprising than rumors anticipated.
For context purposes of the number of 2,392 layoffs, Intel is Oregon’s largest employer. There are about 23,000 employees in total and represents an investment of US $ 64.84 billion. So the layoffs represent about 12% of the workforce. The number is less than some dismissal expectations, but it is still considerable.
In part because, very quickly, layoffs increased from an initial count of about 500 to a revised number of 2,392. It is one of the greatest layoffs in the history of the US state.
Reducing staff began at the beginning of last week, but the company confirmed the larger number on Friday night through a document filed with state authorities.
Intel Oregon’s operations have already registered 3,000 job losses last year due to previous acquisitions and layoffs. This time, Intel did not offer retirement or voluntary acquisitions, laying off employees in Aloha (192) and Hillsboro (2,200).
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Affected areas
Intel officially said that it is trying to get rid of mid -level managers to level the organization and focus on engineers. However, the list of positions that Intel is cutting is led by:
- 325 module equipment technicians
- 302 Module Development Engineers
- 126 Module Engineers
- 88 process integration development engineers.
Com base no registro WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) no Oregon, A total of 190 employees with “manager” in their positions (8% of the dismissed personnel) were included among those fired by Intel. These positions included various software, hardware and operational management functions in the affected units.
WARN is a mandatory notification that companies need to do when they will resign in or closing a factory. As the statement needs to be issued 60 days in advance, It is still possible that the number will be reviewed.
Situation in other countries
Earlier this month, Intel began to reduce its workforce in Israel. Those affected include mid -level managers (eg team leaders), first -rate supervisors and Remote Operations Center (ROC) technicians.
According to the information, supervisors operate on shift operations and occupy one or two levels above production workers. Therefore, their functions would be gradually eliminated as part of the company’s intent.
Intel is also firing ROC technicians, which remotely monitor and control manufacturing tools, manage workflows and detect problems. The functions are being automated as part of a global movement to reduce manual supervision in chip production.
And it is reasonable to suppose that something similar is happening in the US.
Good news?
Intel is implementing a new approach to personnel reductions, allowing individual departments to decide how to achieve financial goals rather than announcing great centralized cuts.
The decentralized process led to continuous job losses throughout the company, with marketing functions being outsourced to Accenture and the automotive division completely closed. However, at the same time, it allows the various sectors to decide with each other how to optimize costs within the budget.
This news is good because it suggests that the new CEO is not acting like a tyrant and, in some respect, with employees’ collaboration to keep the company active. However, it is undeniable that the blue team is in a desperate position.
And layoffs show that the company is not very optimistic with its chip business.
Demand for chips
The demand for chips in the US has been huge in recent times. President Trump’s “Made in USA” initiative brought investment from companies like TSMC to produce state -of -the -art us.
Even though it has been in the United States for decades, Intel apparently cannot meet national chip manufacturing ambitions. And that’s even after being one of the biggest beneficiaries for Chat Chips, which indicates that the company faces serious base problems, especially in the casting division.
Meanwhile, TSMC has been able to capitalize on demand for us in the United States, so Intel is being removed from a key market. As the Intel CEO said, the company is not even among the ten largest semiconductor companies in the world.
Returning to its original fame will require much more than just financial resources. As the former CEO pointed out, the company missed ugly with AI.
Fonte: Oregon Live.
Source: https://www.adrenaline.com.br/intel/demissoes-na-intel-podem-ser-5-vezes-maiores-do-que-o-esperado/
