Dell recently laid off 20 to 30 people in a product
development group in program management, engineering and software
testing roles in a bid for increased efficiency, a spokesman
said.
The layoffs came as a result of consolidation within the
company's Texas facilities, the spokesman said. About 140 people
have recently left Dell due to performance reviews and other
routine turnover. The company employs about 39,100 workers
worldwide.
Dell laid off several thousand workers in 2001.
The company declined to comment on reports that its Taiwan
Design Center has plans to hire about the same number of employees.
Taiwanese companies have been hoping to land more design work from
large vendors, rather than serving as the manufacturing hubs for
those companies. Hewlett-Packard recently moved some design work
from China and Singapore to Taiwan.
