HP Invent...: Fortune magazine 100 Best Companies : HP did not make the list.

January 16, 2006

Fortune magazine 100 Best Companies : HP did not make the list.

The list has been published by Fortune since 1998. HP was included on the list the first four years. In 2002 and 2003, HP was not eligible to for consideration due to the merger. In 2004 and 2005, HP applied but did not make the list. The liste for 2005 was released January 9th

More information on the list may be found at: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/
Genentech captured the top spot on this year's list. The majority of the companies on the list are small (1,000-2,500 employees) to midsized companies (2,500-10,000 employees), based on the number of U.S. employees. HP competitors such as IBM, Lexmark and Dell do not appear on the list. Also absent are other large global companies that HP benchmarks against such as GE and GM. High-tech companies on the list include Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, Yahoo, Intuit and Network Appliance

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Anonymous said...: HP faces legal action over murdered worker Bangalore techie killed by company driver...

By Andy McCue

Published: Friday 06 January 2006

HP could face legal action over the rape and murder of one of its Bangalore-based IT staff by a driver of a taxi firm used by the IT giant.

Prathibha Srikanth Murthy, a 24-year-old technical support worker at HP's global delivery contact centre in Bangalore, was raped and then murdered on 18 December 2005 by the driver of a company taxi who had picked her up to drive her to her nightshift.

The law in India forces companies to provide secure transport to and from work for female staff working unsocial hours and nightshifts, and most IT and BPO companies lease taxis to get employees to and from work safely.

HP uses transport company SRS Travel for its employee taxis but claims on this occasion the driver was unauthorised and impersonating the regular shift driver who usually picked up Murthy. The driver has been arrested and is in police custody.

But legal experts in India warn HP could still face a claim for negligence and damages from the victim's family.

Indian IT body Nasscom said it was "shocked and dismayed" at the incident and added that it highlights the need for increased security for staff.

A Nasscom statement said: "The [IT] industry has taken many steps keeping in mind that a large number of staff in the industry are women, and that the nature of work requires many employees - men and women - to work at night.

"We are aware that warped, criminal minds will try to find ways of circumventing the protection and procedures already in place, and therefore, there is need to constantly devise 'better practices'."

HP said it was "shocked and saddened" by the murder and is now co-operating fully with the police authorities carrying out the investigation.

A HP statement said: "HP is instituting increased security control measures to guard against future incidents. These measures have been designed in consultation with both local authorities in India, as well as international security experts.

"We have been advised not to disclose these confidential procedures but are confident that they will help ensure that HP employees work and travel in a secure environment."

Bangalore also suffered a separate security scare on 28 December when a suspected terrorist gunman breached security at the city's Indian Institute of Sciences campus and shot dead a professor.; 12:43 PM, January 19, 2006

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They say the "lights will still go on at HP" without me here. I wonder who will miss the love I have given this company, I wonder who will miss how much I cared about The HP Way. I often chose to come in early, work through lunch and stay late. I thought what I was doing was so important. Especially when it was for customers or when it was something so new, What we were doing would change the world. But the times I was the most selfless, was for my co-workers who needed me. Maybe it was to review a document, give feedback, change the code, whatever... This is what I will miss most, knowing that I was important to my co-workers. I will miss the lifelong friends I have made We had so many days of meaningful work together. We made a difference and we knew it. We understood the power of a team. I will miss that where ever I went in the world, I always found great HP people. People who cared as much as I did. People who loved our HP culture enough to keep it precious. These are the great HP people who shared in success And when times were tough were the first to say, "We'll get through it together". I will miss the picnics and the beer busts. But mostly I will miss the managers who believed in me, who challenged me, who told me that I was a leader and important to the business. I will miss the profit sharing checks. Not for the money but because I knew I was a part of something so much greater than myself. I will always remember the handshake and the "Thank you" of the general manager. Those were some of my favorite times. I will miss the laughter and excitement of creating new businesses and improving processes. I will miss the serious times when customers' needs were on the line. We were all engaged for one purpose. It was our finest hour. I will miss saying I helped create a great HP product. And now will relish in how it changed the world. I wouldn't have missed that for anything. How proud I am to have been an HP employee. I would have worked for free for you HP. I loved you that much. You should know that I cried when Bill and Dave died. I had finally figured out what values really mean to a company's culture. My only regret is I didn't have a chance to say thank you. I'll take that learning with me as a final gift of all the years, of the great company Bill & Dave built. I leave you now HP.