Hundreds of employees face layoffs in wake of Broadcom-VMware merger
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Broadcom Inc., which has been in the process of acquiring enterprise software giant VMware Inc. for 18 months, will lay off at least 401 VMware employees — 184 in Broomfield, Colo. and 217 in Atlanta — less than one week after it completed the $69 billion merger on Nov. 22.
This is merely the first wave of employees to be let go. A Broadcom representative told The New Stack that he was unaware of the total number of layoffs that would result from the merger. Broadcom enlisted 21,000 full-time employees as of October, while VMware reported 38,300 FTEs in February.
The layoffs will impact staff in several countries and across a variety of roles spanning cloud, technical, engineering and marketing functions. This is according to VMware APJ vice president of partner ecosystem and commercial organization, Uma Thana Balasingham, who received her layoff notice this week and discussed it on LinkedIn.
“My initial encounter a few years ago with redundancy was unplanned, creating a disruptive transition and a confidence hit. In contrast, my current experience at VMware allowed for more preparation, although it still carries a sense of finality — a ‘good sad’ as I call it — that’s hard to ignore,” Balasingham wrote.
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