Hewlett-Packard

The Company
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), also known as HP, is a global technology company working in approximately 170 countries around the world. Over the years, HP has provided service for a billion of customers and continues to service many more every day. Many people often think of printers when thinking of HP, yet they account for much more than just printers in the technology world. HP has product lines in printers, laptops, desktops, servers, storage, and networks just to name a few. With all of the products that HP has, they also provide customer service with locations around the world on six continents. HP uses the “follow-the-sun” global workflow approach, whereas when the sun moves, the opening and closing of the service centers move with the sun.
For the entire year of 2011, HP’s revenue clocked in at $127.4 billion, with $12.6 billion in profit (Kessler, 2011). Even though HP made $12.6 billion in profit last year, some would consider it a slow year for the technology giant. One of the things that had an impact on profits was the acquisition of the software company “Autonomy” for over $10 billion, in October of last year. Sometimes profits do not reflect growth, and HP understands that growing will allow them to stay competitive for many years to come.
Community Difference
HP believes in the community and has donated to many relief funds around the world such as the Haiti earthquake and the most recent Colorado fires. With over 300 thousand employees worldwide, it is important that they are active in the communities and have worked to have not only HP involved as a company, but the employees as well. Employees are encouraged to volunteer and HP will allow them to take time off that counts for work, so that they can volunteer in the community.
HP offers its employees and HP partners yearly training on how to work with a diverse