Devastating: Up to 500 jobs are expected to be lost in Hewlett Packard’s Leixlip branch tomorrow – TheLiberal.ie – Our News, Your Views

Devastating: Up to 500 jobs are expected to be lost in Hewlett Packard’s Leixlip branch tomorrow




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Nightmare job losses are feared for HP Inc plant at Leixlip in Co Kildare tomorrow.

Management at the facility are to address the 500 staff there tomorrow morning in relation to its future with closure said to be “very possible”.

The two branches of the business are involved in research and development with HP Inc building traditional PC and printing business, while Hewlett-Packard Enterprise concentrating on industrial grade servers, networking equipment, software and services.

If the closure goes ahead, it will be the biggest jobs loss since the so-called recovery started in 2014.

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