HP announced they are cutting their webOS team nearly in half. HP cut 275 of the remaining 600 webOS team yesterday. Last September HP let 500 people go from the webOS team in the first step towards moving webOS towards the open source community.

HP Statement:

As webOS continues the transition from making mobile devices to open source software, it no longer needs many of the engineering and other related positions that it required before. This creates a smaller and more nimble team that is well-equipped to deliver an open source webOS and sustain HP’s commitment to the software over the long term.

HP is working to redeploy employees affected by these changes to other roles at the company.

Hopefully most of the affected employees can find other work at HP.