By Reuters
December 7, 2002, 10:34 AM PT

Personal computer makers Hewlett-Packard and Gateway are sending employees home without pay for the December holidays, a money-saving tradition that has become familiar to technology industry workers in the two-year downturn.

Corporate workers and other nonessential employees at No. 1 personal computer maker Dell Computer will also get time off, but their vacation is paid, a spokesman said.

The technology slowdown led many companies to cut costs, and nearly every major computer company has laid off workers in the past couple of years. Such furloughs have become common.

No. 2 PC maker HP is requiring most employees in North America to take off the week of Dec. 23, as HP and Compaq Computer, which HP bought in May, did last year. Workers can use accrued vacation but must take time off without pay if their vacation is used up, spokesman Arch Currid said...

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