#contractor

Does anyone know if any vendors or contractors will be effected?

Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE) announced recent layoffs. Dozens of union members were affected by these job cuts. The IEBW Local 410 union criticized BGE's decision. The union stated BGE kept contractors while firing members. This action was cited as a contract violation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/video/union-slams-bge-for-firing-members-while-keeping-contractors-citing-contract-violation/

I feel a mass exodus from my location. Nobody likes a layoff obviously but the workload had tripled for some as myself. Yes, the stock went up but at what cost. Fire all those people just to hire them back as contractors and paying them more! Should've spent a little time weeding out the ones not performing and those not doing their work from home! Just the lazy one working from the house could've made up for the 15K.

i walk in, log into MS Teams, and talk to people who are halfway across the world. i don’t even know what they look like, and most of them are contractors

Make this make sense.

We lay off people by requiring them to move to a Hub city at their own expense and reapply for their job (or they are declared surplus/laid off). Then, a year later, they are back as a contractor, and RTO doesn’t apply to contractors.

If it is so darn important to have everyone in an office, why aren’t we ALL in the office? Why doesn’t AT&T thrust their own employees, but is happy to let a third party person have access to the same systems and networks remotely full time?

Anyone know if onshore contractors will be let go? Rumor has it all contractor contracts got extended til 3/1 for alignment purposes - is this just a cover story for having them work hard the next month and finish their projects and then they'll be rid of at Express Scripts/Evernorth? I'm working with a few contractors and wondering if they know they'll be let go in a month so won't do their work well the next 4 weeks. That would be awful for our remaining team. And does it also signal that the contractors won't be getting FTE positions in the future anymore?

Just in headend will be contractors based also. They are currently looking at a few potential companies to take over....

Only people to blame are employees for letting this happen.. Chicken sh--s

In general, can contractors be positioned to lead teams within organizations?

I keep hearing contractor layoffs in feb. anyone has more info?

This is a serious question and ONLY directed at H-1b FTEs. I’m a white female from Europe who used to be on H-1b when initially hired by Nike. I’ve been a permanent resident for a while now but still curious about something. I know the scenarios where H-1b hires get paid less or taken advantage of but I have never had that happen to me by Nike or any of my other (much bigger) employers. When Nike hired me, all of my coworkers on the team were American and my salary was comparable to or higher than theirs. Has any H-1b FTE observed they are in fact getting underpaid? Contractors are a different story and can be more easily exploited hence I’m excluding them from the question.

Just seems to me like they would first target onshore contractors and then usually offshore contractors, and then onshore FTEs? If anyone has more data about who they're targeting, would greatly appreciate it

Are they even laying off contractors ??talking about technology ( networking )

In MTech, a few contractors working with us (mostly onshore) are gone. FTEs are fine so far.

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if anyone has heard about potential cost-cutting measures or layoffs affecting contractors at Charles Schwab? With the current economic climate and many companies restructuring, I'm curious if there are any known plans to reduce contractor workforce or cut contractor-related costs. Has anyone heard anything from their teams or managers about this?

Rebadged employees that you may work with from your core are being released. I wish all the best.

Neighborhood has been taken down twice in the past 4-5 weeks. Actual Verizon techs working overnight at the Xboxes. What are they doing? Know they have used a lot of contractors for installation in the past but that has basically wound down and seems like there is no repair work based on the number of trucks you see after almost any type of inclement weather.

The company is so poorly managed , they overpay management, they allow these techs to take home there trucks , I see cable trucks parked in one location sometimes for 2-3 hrs , here’s an idea why don’t you take back contractor work and give it to in-house techs

just found out some (not all) externals are being chopped on Jan 1st in ET. Happy new year!! Three days notice... wow

I have to say I was quite affected by all of the farewell emails that came in today.

I feel bad for the long-term employees who now have to look for a new job and will certainly face ageism.

I feel bad for the impacted who don't live in a major job market. That will be an uphill battle to find a comparable corporate job.

But I feel especially bad for a couple of peers that were with VZ for less than a year. One was a contractor and was very excited to land a VZ full-time offer. His kid had major medical issues, so he was finally happy to have good benefits.

The other was a guy recently divorced supporting 3 kids. He was also a contractor that went perm. Both are in their late 50s so will have a tough time finding new full-time work.

I know this is the downside of choosing corporate life, but it still really stings. And I would be naïve to think that I'll be safe much longer.

The older workers pdf clearly showed a bias in laying off the older population of RFEs. A couple of very recent RFE hires were included in with the riffed group (to mask the age discrimination?). Were RFEs in other regions affected similarly?

Also, the CARTN RFE team already has approx. 20 contractors (not touched) supporting the build plan (entering data in the tools per the RFEs' directions, plus running plots for review by the RFEs). ALL of the 20 or so contractors appear to be from India (Amdocs, with the contractors in TX?). Are the contractors now going to planning the designs of the cell sites? How is the quality of the designs (new builds and modification projects) going to be affected given the relatively short time span contractors are working for VZ (through Amdocs)? Contractors do not have as much skin in the game as fulltime VZ employees, and it may take 6 months to a year and a half for poor quality work to show up in the network.

Really short sighted on the part of management.

Anybody know what’s going on with Truist and Accenture? Truist decided to end the contracts early for 100+ contractors this week. Granted some of them were offshore/useless but there were quite a few in IT that were solid and were supposed to be extended for another year and then magically the powers that be decided otherwise. Not sure what to make of it but our team is not sized correctly and now we definitely won’t be able to keep up with the workload.

Two members of my team, of the 4 that were kept, keep messaging me to help fix or document items I was holding together.

They have been loud about the fact they want me to return. To return as a contractor is that after the 6 month freeze?

As of February 1st no more in-house techs Cute 🥰 How the destroyed this place, You will now be and independent contractor

After 25 years I was terminated on 11/20. And now a local Engineering firm has just reached out to me to see if I would come to work for them on the projects I was working at the time of my dismissal. So VZ will now pay much much more to get projects completed and they won't be able to overwork me like they did in 2025. I was told my former manager was in "Panic" mode to get these projects completed. Should I take the job?

So now that this wonderful Auto Routing in OFS is working so wonderfully- Says absolutely no CEs! But the Senior Management is all in on this and ignoring what we all think of this system. The TMs are loosing more and more abilities to do anything. They cant do anything with calls or scheduling. so I see the SPs and TMs getting cut. Maybe not all of them but a big chunk of them. I can see some of the CEs getting changed to Contractor status or just cut more of us. Hope im wrong on this but after all, there was a reason for Splitting NCR to begin with. To make us more sellable.

Isn't the Accenture contract cancellation date fast approaching? Does anyone know how many current Accenture contractors will be brought on by the new vendor and how many will be let go?
Someone I know who is still there tells me they have been setting up access for new the new vendor like crazy.

More and more contractors are being moved to different recruiting companies that will ultimately be their last stop. Contracts will expire and not be renewed and in some cases will be cancelled outright. If you have had three or more different recruiting companies under your tenure with HP then you will likely be next on the chopping block. Your $100,000 salary will be taken from you and fed into Asia.

Any contractors heard of anything regarding their extensions for 2026?

Stating the obvious: layoffs are direct hires losing their job. Ironically, outsourced labor is often low quality and sometimes justified because it is “easier to fire a contract worker”. Yet I am not seeing a directed reduction in this labor pool. What gives?

Any management in here that can explain what was told to them about next steps with contractors?

All the middle managers ads avps vps and svps are intact, they said they want to transform, laying off ppl from lower band will not transform verizon ppl who bleeded the money hiring contractors and asked the Vz lower band to manage contractors and they get away with this it’s a shame

Have any teams begun laying off contractors this week?

Anyone heard any contractors being layed off? All I have heard atleast from my team is FTE…which su-ks. I thought contractors would have been more impacted than FTE.

I work with contractors in engineering. Only one that I know of was told he is leaving because his time was almost up anyway. All the others were told they are staying. They are a different animal it seems while the rest of us are thrown to the wolves.

More contractors to be cut in San Jose soon.

Does anyone know how long these contractors are here to stay?

Anyone know if this is contractors too?