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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
By Doug Champigny
 Internet marketing is continually becoming the saviour for those caught out in the current economic crisis. And no wonder - just look at what's going on out there in the world right now...
Just from today's headlines, we find that Hewlett-Packard is getting rid of 24,600 jobs, nearly 8% of it's workforce according to Jordan Robertson of the Associated Press. That's on top of the 15,000 already forced out by the company's restructuring in the last 2 or 3 years. FORTY THOUSAND JOBS GONE in one company alone, with half of those axed living in the U.S.A., the rest scattered around the world.
Remember how, not that long ago, we were all told that computing skills would make us indispensible? Ooops!
Also today, Yahoo! News reports that Lehman Brothers, the 4th biggest Wall Street firm, had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - this is a firm that's been operating for 158 years, and a shut down would put another 24,000 people out of work.
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