McAfee layoffs: Computer security company McAfee lay off nearly 2% of the worldwide employees
News on March 10, 2010: According to media reports, about 100 are located in different parts of McAfee employees have been laid off. Prior to this action, McAfee Total employed 6,100 employees. The vast majority of being laid off engineers. The company globally employs more than 350 researchers.
McAfee on last Friday (5) e-mail that deliberately downplaying the layoffs. Joris Evers, director of global PR McAfee, said: “Two weeks ago, (we) had a small staff reorganization, the impact of our global workforce, less than 2%.”
“We have a number of operational departments to reduce a small number of posts at the same time reconfiguration of funds to support the company’s strategic opportunities for the majority of functions and programs.”
Evers said the job cuts also include the rationalization of office functions, because of the recent foreign acquisitions result in some of the duties McAfee overlap.
One familiar with the layoffs of the British sources, McAfee’s Avert Labs in the UK there is a researcher at being laid off, there are two local researchers in Europe have been cut.
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