In India, Whitman was interviewed by the , and said this: "We are not reducing our workforce in India. We have announced a global workforce reduction, but India will stay largely intact, because we not only have all our business units here, but also our R&D and back office."

Whitman's remarks fill out a little bit of the layoff picture for HP, which, like most tech companies, doesn't detail global workforce patterns.

Earlier this year, HP announced its workforce by 27,000 employees by 2014, or about 8% of its approximately 350,000 employees. One said that about 9,000 of those workers would be in the U.S.

Indian firms have been hiring, not firing, and it would have been surprising for U.S. based employers to do similarly.

The U.S. IT job market, overall, has been hiring, too.