The company announced that around 2,500 employees (5% of its total workforce) will be losing their jobs in the near future. In addition, one of its manufacturing plants in Thailand will be closed and the same fate awaits another plant in Malaysia if Western Digital doesn’t find soon a suitable buyer for it.
Additional measures include the following:
– bonus cuts for the board of directors
– hourly employees’ schedules to be cut back 20%
– capital spending to be reduced by about $250 million
– production has been put on hold from December 20 to January 1
Western Digital stated that the plan should save about $150 million in annual operating costs. Recently, the company reviewed its revenue estimation for this quarter and lowered d it to $1.8 billion from an initial $2.15 billion.