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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:11 PM
Subject: An important and difficult step: Manager reductions
To: All Intel employees
This week we’re taking an important and difficult step in our efficiency project: reducing the number of Intel managers by about 1,000 people worldwide. Only managers, ranging from senior to first-line, are affected. This step is important because it addresses a key problem we’ve found in our efficiency analysis—slow and ineffective decision-making, resulting, in part, from too many management layers. It is difficult because the managers who will leave the company are our colleagues and friends, and since we have limited internal job opportunities, redeploying their skills is not a viable option.
We are notifying the majority of impacted employees on Thursday and Friday this week, and (except where a country’s laws require different steps and timelines) we plan to have all affected employees informed by Monday, July 17. In the U.S., most employees’ last day of work will be July 28, and their benefits will include a minimum of about three months’ separation pay (and more for lengths of service over two years). In other regions the process and benefits will differ. While we can’t eliminate the impact to these employees, we’re committed to offering them support during this difficult time.
This manager reduction is one of the first major actions coming out of our structure and efficiency project, and I believe it’s an essential first step toward making us more competitive. Over the last five years at Intel, the number of managers has grown faster than our overall employee population. Our efficiency analysis and industry benchmarking have shown that we have too many management layers, top to bottom, to be effective.
In addition, this finding is consistent with what our organizational health surveys have suggested: that the relative increase in management has impaired decision-making and communication, reducing the company’s efficiency and productivity. Many of you have made the same point in your individual inputs to the efficiency team.
As I’ve said in previous Webcasts, one of the outcomes of the structure and efficiency project is that we’ll be a leaner and more agile company. We’ll make quicker decisions, collaborate better across the company, and enable a cost structure that allows us to continue to win in our extremely competitive industry as it evolves.
This manager action is one step along that path. Another was the decision to sell our communications and applications processor business to Marvell. We’ll continue to identify other opportunities, act on each one as soon as we can, and tell you about the changes as soon as possible. I’ll talk more about this and our business priorities in my employee Webcast on July 19 at 4 p.m. Pacific time.
In April I
said that we had decided not to do an immediate “across the
board” layoff, because that would be reactionary – focused only
on the current environment rather than the long term strategic
needs of our company.
I know
this is hard for all of us to internalize and accept. We have done
extremely well over the past 25 years of the “PC era.” But we
need to adjust now for where our industry is going. Competition
will intensify across our product lines. Pricing will be
aggressive. We should not only accept that reality, but recognize
that it reflects the position we have earned in the industry and
the strength of our strategic direction. Weak companies pursuing
low-growth markets do not attract competition. Strong companies
that have commanding positions and generate strong earnings growth
are the ones
Our
objective, and our destiny, is to refashion Intel now while we have
the means and the time to do so, and ensure we continue to remain
number one.
Paul