14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like the latest organizational changes set to happen on Acer's side of the IT industry will take the form of some less than likable moves, at least as far as its employees are concerned.
The past year saw a visible recovery from the heavy times of the economic recession which hit the IT segment hardest in 2008 and 2009.
Among other things, IT players saw themselves in the position where they had to lay off a significant part of their workforce.
This led to employees being fired by the thousands over the course of months, and only last year did some companies begin to hire people again.
Either way, times are still not back to their 'good' state, and it looks like some reminiscence of the recession lives on in China, so to speak.
More specifically, a report made by Digitimes says that Acer will eliminate about 10 percent of its total workforce in this country. This corresponds to over 100 people.
The maneuver was selected because Acer wants to streamline operation and root out redundancies while integrating production, logistics and marketing resources with those from Founder Technology.
For those that don't know, back in August, 2010, Acer announced that it had initiated a tie-up with Founder.
Founder will provide the services of its plans in Suzhou as well as those of its channel network, while Acer will have to plan the operations of most of its branded PC business.
All in all, this layoff plan, along with all other changes planned, are supposed to allow the world-class PC maker to boost its notebook share by 13-15% this year (in China).
Of course, whether it succeeds remains to be seen, considering that many IT players have been keeping an eye on this country now that it has proven to be one of, if not the fastest growing emerging market in the world.