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Qualcomm Starts Cutting Jobs as Part of Its Cost Reductions

Qualcomm Starts Cutting Jobs as Part of Its Cost Reductions

By Reuters | Updated: 19 April 2018 10:18 IST

Highlights

Qualcomm plans to cut annual costs by $1 billion
Company did not disclose the exact numbers of job cuts
It offered affected employees severance packages

Qualcomm has begun cutting jobs as part of its promise to investors to cut annual costs by $1 billion (roughly Rs. 6,500 crores), the chipmaker said on Wednesday.

"Qualcomm is conducting a reduction of our full-time and temporary workforce," a company spokesperson who declined to be identifies said, without disclosing the exact numbers of job cuts.

Though the company first evaluated non-headcount expense reductions, it concluded that a workforce reduction is needed to support long-term growth and success, the spokesperson said.

Qualcomm said it offered affected employees severance packages. It employed about 33,800 full-time, part-time and temporary employees, as of September 24.

Bloomberg, which first reported the layoffs, said the size of the job cuts is large enough that Qualcomm will have to file a WARN notice, or Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, with the state of California.

Qualcomm had in January said it would implement a series of targeted reductions across businesses to save $1 billion in annual costs, as part of its attempt to win over investors support against a hostile bid from rival Broadcom.

The bid, however, was cancelled by the Trump administration on national security grounds.

The chipmaker has been ramping up its operations since then to improve earnings growth.

© Thomson Reuters 2018

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