Palm lays off employees

The end for Palm seems to be coming close – a bunch of employees will soon be laid off according to insider sources:

A truckload of people have been let go at Palm. Most from the US (~200), plus closure of the office in Singapore, decimating the office in Australia, plus more in EU… :-/

While Palm definitely could need a thorough “weed-out”, I am pretty sure that the ones addressed by this measure will be folks who are not the ones to blame for the corporate culture – the long-time ex-Apple folks IMHO will not be laid off till the very end as they are considered “core staff” vital for the operation of the business.

Ryan Kairer’s boys claim that many of the folks ate from sales/marketing: while this is not exactly a bad step, some of the newly-appointed press contacts have managed to make themselves a bunch of enemies quickly (e.g. Palm Germany).

Eric Sink is famous for his article on how companies die slowly:

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There’s a camera shop here in Champaign. … Nature has selected this kind of camera shop for extinction, but the owner of this particular store is fighting back. The newspaper recently reported that he has laid off everyone but himself. That will help keep his doors open, but it doesn’t help … He could close up shop tomorrow or he could keep going for years.
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If we apply this theroem to Palm Inc., we could one day find “Big E” and a few sycophants facing the courts in an Enron-like bust – while I don’t want to accuse anyone of false book keeping, the downward trend is clearly visible for everyone who is willing to see it.

Sorry folks: Palm essentially is doomed and on its way out. Face it – I think that it would be a miracle to see them survive 2009…

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