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Motorola said Wednesday it would lay off 4,000 workers in a continuing search for profit. more

[mmmdoughnuts]

Ouch, these are engineers salaries. $600million/4000 workers = $150000/worker. Total benefits from companies like Motorola can be 50 to 100% of workers salaries.

[pairof9s]

Wow...I guess Apple dropping the PowerPC chip really had an impact on these guys!! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Tau_Myx]

Gee, where did our profits go? Off with the iPhone, that we could have been making if only we'd kept the PPC competitive.

[DVA_Airwolf]

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Ouch, these are engineers salaries. $600million/4000 workers = $150000/worker. Total benefits from companies like Motorola can be 50 to 100% of workers salaries.

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Actually if you read the article, it's 7,500 workers getting laid off (that's [potentially 7000+ families); not that you can make a general assumption calculation above because the hierarchies within the company will be on different salary scales obviously. But at $300 million / 7,500 workers the average is just $40,000, (no doubt the temporary workers will hardly get a look-in to this pot).
Damn, that's depressing news.

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Wow...I guess Apple dropping the PowerPC chip really had an impact on these guys!! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

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I don't think that's very appropriate dude, considering it's the ordinary workers and their families who will suffer, so a flippant remark and a smirk afterwards is, well it speaks for itself.

[snookie]

Motorola made the G4 chip not the G5 which was/is made by IBM. It was also outsourced to Freescale sometime ago as it has pretty much no impact on Motorola's bottom line even when all Macs had G4's.

[akuma1x]

I love the headline "Search for Missing Profit"
It's like it got up and snuck away. It's hiding from them now, and they need to go search for it. I haven't read the article, but where's the CFO in all of this? Is his neck on the line?
Jeff

[akuma1x]

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I haven't read the article, but where's the CFO in all of this? Is his neck on the line?
Jeff

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Scratch that, I see the "previous" CFO was replaced. That was most likely a good move, although too late.
Jeff