McAfee Feeling Lighter, More Nimble after Shedding 250 Workers
McAfee Feeling Lighter, More Nimble after Shedding 250 Workers
Posted 12/07/2011 at 8:39am
| by Paul Lilly
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We hate to read about job cuts during the holiday season (or any time during the year, but especially now), and McAfee said it was a "difficult decision" to trim its workforce, but ultimately felt that's what needed to be done if the company's going to grow in 2012. The Intel-owned security outfit handed out around 250 pink slips, effectively reducing its workforce by 3 percent.
"In order to better prepare the company for growth in 2012 we have made the difficult decision to reduce a small percentage of our global workforce," a McAfee spokesman told Reuters.
McAfee's ultimate goal is to operate more efficiently and readjust its focus on core businesses, which purportedly will not be affected by the job cuts. Intel, which acquired McAfee for $7.7 billion earlier in the year, said McAfee management made the independent decision to slash its workforce.
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GenMasterB
December 07, 2011 at 9:18am
Well if they'd make a decent Anti-Virus they wouldnt have this problem. The crapware they install on a common PC is ludicrous. Do we really need ONE MORE TOOLBAR that tracks our usage? c'mon McAfee, fix your antivirus (where it works doing what is says it's supposed to) and try to regain community trust. Most people are afraid to install anything from them. Cant even download Flash w/o McAfee wanting in on the action and tries to install stuff people spend money on having removed! it's supposed to be ANTI-VIRUS, not PRO-SPYWARE..
PC EliTiST
December 07, 2011 at 9:41am
You're right... Wherever I see such software under the software I'm trying to install, that's it. I consider them as "adware crap". Since MCAfee is one of them, I avoid their AV completely.
As you said, start with just one, light, solid, tide AV and maybe, I'll trust them again, someday. But since they keep doing it, they must have their reasons. Probably they've benefits and hard to change that policy.
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