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In June, ASUS announced to employees through an internal letter that it would carry out an organizational reorganization, and although ASUS repeatedly stressed that it was not going to lay off employees, in July it cut the staff of the PC department, affecting the employees in Taiwan and Suzhou, China. However, ASUS’s layoffs have not slowed down, and now an informed source revealed to the “Science and Technology News” that “this afternoon, some units in the commercial sector were called downstairs one after another, and the units including engineers and procurement were directly cut in half.”

According to the initial ASUS internal letter, the commercial computer team planned and went to the mobile phone product department; People familiar with the matter pointed out that some talents have just been merged into mobile phone units, but they have been laid off; Originally, ASUS stated that after the organizational reorganization, the human resources association had internal matchmaking vacancies, but in fact, human resources did not want to match for these employees, and had to find internal vacancies by themselves.

As for why some employees were merged into mobile phone units, but then laid off? The person familiar with the matter pointed out that the Asus mobile phone has two series, ROG and Zenfone, but now the latest Zenfone 10 will be the last generation of this series, and the Zenfone team will be merged into other departments in the future, or directly into the ROG team.

It is understood that this wave of commercial sector employees who were laid off by ASUS will be until next month.

Here is more context ASUS layoffs, commercial team/smartphone division merger, esports consolidation and personal computer team

Best case is that they mean the Zenfone line is dead and the rog still lives. But even then that still hurts.

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      yeah it sucks to see, asus has been a good brand, afaik anyway, for a while and now they do downhill. everyone is enshittifying their product it seems.

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        I’m only part way through the video but this is extremely disappointing. They were my go to for so many years, not just for motherboards either.

        I’m in the market for a new gaming PC so I’m really glad you shared this with me. I guess I’ll have to explore new options because there is no way I’m giving my money to them now.

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          theyve been my go to for routers for over a decade. they just work 99+% of the time for me. hopefully they turn it around. if not its another company that drove itself into the ground.