Just weeks after HP announced plans to make 24,600 staff redundant over the next three years, the company has confirmed that 3,000 of these will be ex-EDS jobs from the UK market.

The job cuts, one of the biggest UK IT job losses in recent history, form part of a worldwide cutback that will see HP drop approximately 9,300 staff across the EMEA region.

The company previously described this as a ‘redeployment of staff’ and has provided no new statement about the losses.