This does NOT redeem Fiorina. Among other things, what about the around 25,000 Americans who lost their jobs by her actions?
And thank God, that in public sector they never fire anyone — that's why it works so much better than the private sector when the evil greedy heartless CEOs fire people whose positions become redundant due to mergers, acquisitions or changing markets and competition... Or they do it to save money to create higher profits, or else Wall Street is not going to be happy and the Board of Directors is going to fire them, and then cut even more workers.
Was this a serious question?
That alone wouldn’t be a problem aside from her advocacy of H1-b’s and having a somewhat hostile attitude towards HP’s remaining US engineers.