{"id":1208118,"date":"2023-12-01T15:16:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208118"},"modified":"2023-12-01T15:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:16:57","slug":"broadcom-cuts-at-least-2800-vmware-jobs-following-69-billion-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208118","title":{"rendered":"Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs following $69 billion acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/vmware-800x400-1.jpe\" alt=\"Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs following $69 billion acquisition\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/vmware.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"625\" data-width=\"1250\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: VMWare)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Broadcom announced back in May of 2022 that <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2022\/05\/broadcom-will-pay-61-billion-to-become-the-latest-company-to-acquire-vmware\/\">it would buy VMware for $61 billion<\/a> and take on an additional $8 billion of the company&#8217;s debt, and on November 22 of 2023 Broadcom said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadcom.com\/blog\/broadcom-announces-successful-acquisition-of-vmware\">it had completed the acquisition<\/a>. And it looks like Broadcom&#8217;s first big move is going to be layoffs: according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraining_Notification_Act_of_1988\">WARN notices<\/a> filed with multiple states (catalogued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelfutures.com\/mergers-acquisitions\/broadcom-layoffs-officially-above-2-100-post-vmware-deal\">here<\/a> by Channel Futures), Broadcom will be laying off at least 2,837 employees across multiple states, including <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2023\/11\/30\/broadcom-vmware-layoffs-palo-alto\/\">1,267 at its Palo Alto campus<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n<p>As Channel Futures notes, the actual number of layoffs could be higher, since not all layoffs require WARN notices. We&#8217;ve contacted Broadcom for more information about the total number of layoffs and the kinds of positions that are being affected and will update if we receive a response. VMware has around 38,300 employees worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The WARN notices list the reason for the layoffs as &#8220;economic,&#8221; but provide no further explanation or justification.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987839#p3\">Read 4 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987839&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs following  billion acquisition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: VMWare) Broadcom announced back in May of 2022 that it would buy VMware for $61 billion and take on an additional $8 billion of the company&#8217;s debt, and on November 22 of 2023 Broadcom said that it had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208118\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1208118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}