VMware confirms 'workforce rebalancing' – that's corporate-speak for 'layoffs'

The company would not say how many people got walking papers, though it did say the number is fewer than the 1,250 positions it has open.

Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading

January 30, 2020

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VMware confirms 'workforce rebalancing' – that's corporate-speak for 'layoffs'

VMware confirmed it has laid off an unspecified number of employees following a series of acquisitions.

"We can confirm that there have been a limited number of changes to our workforce this month," a company spokesman said in a statement. "This is a part of regular workforce rebalancing that ensures resources across VMware's global businesses and geographies are aligned with strategic objectives and customer needs."

VMware will look to redeploy affected employees within the company, and it's also recruiting. There are currently more than 1,250 openings on VMware's career page, with "significantly more openings than the number of positions impacted this month." The company has a total 24,000 employees.

"This is not uncommon in the fast-changing technology industry," VMware adds.

Learn more about how the cloud is transforming the service provider sector at Light Reading's Cloud content channel.

Also this week, VMware lost a $236 million patent infringement lawsuit filed by Densify over virtualization technology; VMware said it plans to fight.

VMware has made a series of acquisitions during the past year. See these articles for details:

— Mitch Wagner

Light Reading

About the Author

Mitch Wagner

Executive Editor, Light Reading

San Diego-based Mitch Wagner is many things. As well as being "our guy" on the West Coast (of the US, not Scotland, or anywhere else with indifferent meteorological conditions), he's a husband (to his wife), dissatisfied Democrat, American (so he could be President some day), nonobservant Jew, and science fiction fan. Not necessarily in that order.

He's also one half of a special duo, along with Minnie, who is the co-habitor of the West Coast Bureau and Light Reading's primary chewer of sticks, though she is not the only one on the team who regularly munches on bark.

Wagner, whose previous positions include Editor-in-Chief at Internet Evolution and Executive Editor at InformationWeek, will be responsible for tracking and reporting on developments in Silicon Valley and other US West Coast hotspots of communications technology innovation.

Beats: Software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), IP networking, and colored foods (such as 'green rice').

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