This is why DUmmies will never, ever run a business of any size: their goal is to maximize the number of people working at a company, whereas responsible companies are interested in maximizing shareholder value. When a DUmmy sees cash EBITDA greater than the cost of wages and benefits, they demand that every cent of it be spent on hiring. When I see positive cash EBITDA, I start prying the business apart to see what may require more human capital and what can be cut.
HP is a textbook case of DUmmy management: not knowing exactly what they want to be, they hire and hire and hire until they realize that they're getting clobbered in the marketplace by more agile competition, and then they have to cut back. The DUmmies scream and whine, forgetting that Apple (their darling) has about 15% of the number of employees as HP.
But this is nonsense to a DUmmy: they think that even a job pushing a broom requires union representation, a full pension with paid healthcare, all on top of Social Security.