追踪SPAxSIOx事情发展 (01/03/2009 SPAxSIOx申请破产保护)

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看来是厄运难逃了

Mr.Business

新闻。

Spansion: Operations as usual as firm revamps
By Marina Emmanuel
Published: 2009/03/04

US FLASH memory chipmaker Spansion Inc, which on Sunday filed for bankruptcy protection in the US, expects its operations worldwide to continue as normal while the company restructures.

"We expect minimal impact to our operations in Penang and are likely to be operating as usual throughout the reorganisation period," Spansion Inc's corporate and wireless public relations manager Courtney Brigham told Business Times in an email interview.

Spansion had filed a voluntary petition for reorganisation under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code as part of a strategy to strengthen its financial position and focus its business for long-term success.

Stating that only Spansion's US and Japan subsidiaries were involved in the protection filings respectively, Brigham added: "The Chapter 11 filing should have little, if any, impact on the jobs and day-to-day responsibilities and activities of most employees".

Asked if Spansion is planning further job cuts in addition to the 3,000 globally which was announced by the company last week, she said that no future layoff plans have been announced.

Sunnyvale, California-based Spansion began as a joint venture between Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Fujitsu Ltd in 1993.

Brigham said Spansion's recently announced reduction in workforce was a worldwide action affecting most locations.

"We are not providing breakdowns of affected personnel by regions or facilities," she added, saying that the majority of the job reductions were in manufacturing locations "to align output with the expectations for reduced revenue".

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng last week said the State Manpower Department had informed state authorities that a voluntary separation scheme (VSS) is being instituted by Spansion in Penang.

http://www.btimes.com.my/Current ... s/spanlagi/Article/

johntkh76

哇!这样惨，真的害死人啊，经济。

lion_o

股票直接降到没价值去  
好恐怖

宇晴

有没有真正在Spansion里面的人出来update两句?

layoff list出来了吗??

dreamladies

收到forward mail, 一针见血，Spansioneer 的心声

暴风侵袭的前夕
这星期将会是在这公司任职以来最令人刻骨铭心，抑或该形容为痛彻心痱的一周，或许没亲眼目睹的你难以想象这眼前的一幕。 订在周二（周一shutdown）的Management Meeting是空前绝后的拥挤，一大群的员工蜂拥而出，在走向另一座大楼时，那神色凝重，焦虑不安的神情，让人有点难民迁徒的错觉。还看到有人还用手机留住当时的气氛。在开始这残酷的大会时，我们的VP看到被人群挤爆的食堂，还开了个黑色笑话，说今天唯一的好消息是从来没看过比今天更高出席率的Management Meeting， 因每次的会议总是小猫两三只而已。顿时笑声四起，只是，这笑声中不知隐藏了多少的恐惧与悲伤。
之后的几天，都有看到某些老板在食堂请他们一大群的员工PIZZA 或 McD 作为Farewell. 我从没看过的比这还伤感的Farewell, 因为没有人知道谁将会“榜上有名”。像在出征前最后的聚会，不晓得谁将会被壮烈牺牲，怕只怕在苟延残喘中留下的活口并不是一件多幸运的事。
昨天看到在中国和美国的公司如何处理这事的手法，让我在看后立刻毛骨耸然。虽然没什么和他们打交道，但身为同一只船的我们，或多或少都会有些心有余悸。
今天听到朋友V 传来的坏消息，在祝福他之余，未免也会替他感到担忧。在少了65%员工之后，将会是怎样的情景？迟到不怕没车位，食堂再也不会有长龙的出现。谁都不想享有这些“好处”的。我们宁愿找不到车位，宁愿排长龙，可是。。。可是。。。这一切一切，将会成为一页页辉煌的历史。下星期后，食堂早餐中的拥挤，笑声，谈话声；还有我们眼中的俊男F, 高大的K, 友善的G。。。不知是否只会成为往后笑谈中的往事。
以前总不明白为何人们总要哀声叹息，总是很厌恶这种声音，在想，难道叹气后会更好吗？除了让听到的人感到厌恶以外，我总是搞不懂。直至近日，家里，公司和感情的困扰，也许加上未痊愈的感冒，不知不觉中总会不由自主地叹了叹息。我当然知道这解决不了问题，但。。。但。。。似乎这是唯一能暂时舒缓压力的不二法门。
希望快点能看到雨后的彩虹！

Mr.Business

新闻。

O'Brien: Company offers hope to Spansion employees
By Chris O'Brien
Mercury News
Posted: 03/03/2009 06:19:20 PM PST

There's a glimmer of hope for the thousands of Spansion employees outraged at their sudden firing last week.

On Tuesday, Spansion CEO John Kispert issued a statement through a spokesman declaring the company would try to get employees the money they are owed through a bankruptcy court.

In case you missed it, last week Spansion fired 3,000 employees with no advance notice and no severance pay. Employees were outraged, claiming the move violated the 60-days notice of layoffs required by the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and filed two class-action lawsuits.

Making a bad situation look even worse, the company simultaneously raised the pay of several dozen executives and key employees, claiming it needed to give them an incentive to stick around.

Within days, the company filed for bankruptcy, making the timing of the raises look even more suspect.

Kispert's statement is certainly welcome. But there's most likely a long way to go before the employees get what they're owed. And the company's handling of the situation so far certainly provides a primer on how not to treat employees in a crisis.

The events of the past two weeks have put the relatively unknown Sunnyvale semiconductor company in the news for all the wrong reasons. It's worth noting that the maker of flash memory has been struggling for months. No one disputes it was in real financial turmoil. The company had been placing employees on furloughs for weeks, it was scrambling to find a buyer, and it replaced the CEO in early February.

But as the crisis apparently deepened, how the company responded remains baffling for several reasons.

Spansion informed the employees they were being fired on Feb. 23 and that no severance was going to be paid. The company says it intended to seek money for those employees in bankruptcy court all along. Maybe it didn't feel it could telegraph that, but the company could have done a better job of letting workers know it would try to take care of them.

One week later, the company filed for bankruptcy. Exactly why, though, also remains unclear. The company is negotiating to borrow money, but claims it doesn't need any to fund its operations over the next few weeks. Typically, someone enters bankruptcy court to seek protection from something. But while Spansion was stumbling and missed a debt payment, it's hard to say why it felt bankruptcy was needed right now.

What does seem clear is that the company is in a mad dash to sell itself. Kispert's compensation package guarantees him four months worth of pay and a $1.75 million bonus if a sale happens. Translation: He's been brought in to get a deal done yesterday.

In that case, it hardly seems likely the company is going to go through a lengthy bankruptcy proceeding to restructure. So if a sale happens, the real issue for the 3,000 Spansion employees may be whether the deal includes money to pay them for 60 days.

I spoke briefly with San Francisco attorney Kenneth Sugarman, who filed one of the lawsuits against Spansion. It was the first he had heard about Spansion's intention, and so he didn't want to respond.

"We'll have to wait and see what they have in mind," Sugarman said. "We'd like to see each employee get what they deserve."

So the drama is a long way from running its course. But there are a couple of lessons to be learned.

First, this is an age of transparency. To the extent Spansion executives are frustrated for taking some lumps in public, they have only themselves to blame. Next time, be straight up with your employees about what you intend to do.

Second, in the case of the raises, the company remains tone deaf. In the insular world of the executive suite and the boardroom, I'm sure it sounds perfectly reasonable that a company needs to pay key employees and executives more to give them an incentive to stick around.

But even if the money is for a relatively narrow group of executives, they're the ones responsible for piloting the ship onto the rocks. They shouldn't be rewarded for failure.

But beyond the symbolism, if the company needs to conserve cash, it needs to conserve cash. Even small raises are too much. And given the state of the economy, where exactly do they think all these top guns would be going?

Finally, however this turns out, kudos to the displaced Spansion employees for fighting back. They deserve better. Let's hope Spansion delivers it.

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_11829309?nclick_check=1

khawyc

明天过后，在槟城飞索的笑声，谈话声，慢慢减少了。。。

f_ly

原帖由 dreamladies 于 4-3-2009 10:57 AM 发表
收到forward mail, 一针见血，Spansioneer 的心声

暴风侵袭的前夕
这星期将会是在这公司任职以来最令人刻骨铭心，抑或该形容为痛彻心痱的一周，或许没亲眼目睹的你难以想象这眼前的一幕。 订在周二（周一 ...

希望10号的迷你財政預算案可以为他们和我们大家带来好消息吧

[ 本帖最后由 f_ly 于 4-3-2009 03:59 PM 编辑 ]

福心人

原帖由 宇晴 于 4-3-2009 10:49 AM 发表
有没有真正在Spansion里面的人出来update两句?

layoff list出来了吗??

layoff list星期五才出来。。。。

khawyc

今天飞索展开残酷行动。。。笑声逐渐消失，换来之是一片愁云惨雾，满脸泪水，淹没每个员工的心。

Dez

原帖由 khawyc 于 6-3-2009 03:34 AM 发表
今天飞索展开残酷行动。。。笑声逐渐消失，换来之是一片愁云惨雾，满脸泪水，淹没每个员工的心。

什麼残酷行动 ﹖ 可以 UPDATE 一下嗎 ﹖

我有朋友在裡面做﹐不知道有沒有受影響。。。。

khawyc

从济济一堂到现在小猫三两只。。。

Dez

已經 CUT 人了嗎 ?

khawyc

你朋友是OFFICE HOUR 的？？？

Dez

對。。。。。而且還是 join 了不到一年啦。。。。。

khawyc

什么部门? 如果是生产部门，一定中奖。

Dez

好像是 IT 和 PURCHASING 都有。。。。

khawyc

当望着忧愁满脸的同事在收拾包袱，我们只能在心里默默的祝福一路顺风，在早日找到新东家。。。

仲裁的员工：不代表是坏事,不要气馁。有危机就有转机，所谓柳暗花明有一春，光明前程等待着你。

whloh4810

purchasing和IT新的人很多都是contract的...