Last year Hewlett-Packard Co. bought Electronic Data Systems and they established a call center in Lansing, Michigan. Now, the call center will be stopped in the next six months.

Based from the report of Lansing State Journal last Tuesday, hundreds of workers at the site may choose to drop their jobs or keep them by commuting 70 miles (equivalent to an hour) east to Pontiac. Three years ago, about 430 people had worked at Lansing call center, but HP (NYSE: HPQ) could not release the exact number of workers. An HP spokeswoman stated that the shutdown is part of the company’s workplace makeover scheme.  Plano is a Texas-based EDS which was bought by Palo Alto-based HP last summer. The cost is $13.9 billion. This created about 25,000 workers. It was established in 1962 and named EDS by perennial presidential gadfly Ross Perot. The present name is HP Enterprise Services. [via npr.org]