The new round of cuts, coming after an earlier round of 800 layoffs for the global solution provider’s Irish operations, is part of a larger plan to eliminate 18,000 jobs over the next year-plus
Fellow distribution juggernaut TD SYNNEX offered a voluntary severance package to US employees this week, signalling the mass vendor layoffs may be trickling down to distributors
The cuts appeared to hit solutions associates, direct sales associates, program managers and success managers
The cuts come despite a 37 per cent year-on-year rise in revenues
Both vendors are among those to have recently announced major shifts towards AI investments amid employee job cuts
"Our next stage of growth requires a different mix of skill sets, particularly in AI and early-stage product development. We’ve been bringing in great talent in these areas over the last couple years and we’ll need even more," said the Dropbox boss
The cuts affect 623 employees, and come amid an economic environment that has "dramatically affected" customer spending patterns, F5 CEO François Locoh-Donou said in a message to staff
Sumner believes employees are now turning to channel partners for employment following mass vendor cuts
Several ex-CDW employees have taken to LinkedIn to announce they have been laid off as part of a move by CDW to cut hundreds of employees in the wake of the company’s warning that fiscal Q1 2023 would be below expectations
The job cuts follow Lenovo's announcement in February that a "severe downturn" in the PC and smartphone markets caused its revenue to decline 24 per cent in Q3