#cuts

Are the RIFs really expected to be worse than usual? There’s always some level of reduction in force, but a lot of what’s being said doesn’t seem grounded in anything concrete. It’s hard to imagine them cutting a third of OI or Health with so many active projects underway. I also haven’t heard anything from our controller or VP that would suggest cuts on that scale, nothing. I wonder if they pull names out of a hat…

Any news on when layoffs will start happening again?

Cape Breton University announced job cuts and tuition increases. This comes amid significant enrollment pressures and revenue loss. The university expects a $77 million revenue loss over three years. This decline is largely due to fewer international students. Seventeen employees are being laid off, and tuition will rise for most programs.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/layoffs-tuition-hikes-planned-cape-breton-university-9.7178460

Laurel Ridge Treatment Center is laying off approximately 648 employees. These layoffs will become effective on June 26. Federal officials cut the facility off from Medicaid and Medicare payments. This action followed findings of multiple safety violations. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will cease patient payments starting April 30.

San Antonio, Texas

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/04/28/nearly-650-laurel-ridge-treatment-center-employees-to-be-laid-off/

Nike's former CTO agrees with this LKDN post that Nike is divesting the wrong things.
These repeated cuts feel less like a thoughtful long-term strategy and more like a short-term push to satisfy board expectations and quarterly metrics. “Win Now” sounds more like reactive cost-cutting than a real competitive investment plan.

In plain English: Nike should stop overreacting with broad, random headcount reductions and instead focus on making strategic investments that strengthen innovation, technology, and long-term market leadership.

Cutting core capabilities, especially in tech during a digitally driven retail era, risks weakening Nike’s ability to compete, rather than positioning it for sustainable growth.

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aalokrathod_nikes-win-now-strategy-is-starting-to-look-share-7454251646185996288-0mPs

Nike’s Win Now strategy is starting to look like a Cut Now reality.

Nike just cut 1,400 roles, mostly in tech.

Their official statement? It's part of their "Win Now" strategy to position for future growth. And I cannot stop laughing at the sheer audacity of that phrase.

You're firing your entire technology department during the most technology-dependent era in retail history, and calling it "Win Now"? That sounds like a surrender with better branding.

This brings Nike's 2026 total workforce reduction to approximately 2,175 employees when combined with the 775 roles eliminated in January, representing a staged approach to cost optimization that most FP&A teams recognize as "we didn't get the cuts right the first time."

When you do layoffs in multiple tranches within four months, you're not executing a strategy. You're making it up as you go. The tech department specifically? That's the department that's supposed to help you compete with lululemon's digital-first model and On's DTC dominance. But sure, let's cut those people because nothing says "future growth" like dismantling your competitive infrastructure.

From an FP&A perspective, this is textbook "optimize for this quarter's EBITDA, worry about revenue growth later." Which works great until your board asks why market share is hemorrhaging faster than your cost savings can offset.

And can we talk about "Win Now" as a strategy name? That's what you yell at your fantasy football team when you're down by 30 points. Real strategies have timelines, milestones, and don't require firing the people who actually know how your systems work.

The forecast model practically writes itself. Cut costs in Q2, miss revenue targets in Q4, announce "restructuring 3.0" in Q1 2027, rinse, repeat. Nike's not positioning for future growth. They're liquidating future capability to hit current-year numbers.

But hey, at least the PowerPoint probably looked incredible.

Great ones went down today. The good Directors and Senior Directors of teams departed likely because the SD or VP above them usually felt threatened. This is why Nike is failing. Best to them. They made us better. I hope they take us with them wherever they go!

Anna Maria College will permanently close at the end of the year. The private Catholic college is located in Paxton, Massachusetts. At least 150 employees will be laid off in the first round. The college cited years of financial pressure for the decision. Layoffs are scheduled to begin between June 22 and June 30, 2026.

Paxton, Massachusetts

https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/04/mass-college-closing-after-80-years-laying-off-150-employees-in-first-round-of-cuts.html

https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/activist-investor-backs-pearson-ceo-pay-rise-c2ds8j55d

This is really obtuse to give this joker a pay raise while employees suffer through no raises, compressed and lowered pay scales, artificially calculated demotions for profit.

The fleecing of workers is so obvious, but here we are.

About 400 more people gone. I guess Shart needs another million in his bonus.

Does anybody know ANYTHING about when we might expect to see more cuts?

Does anyone know when ICs from lead down will get the layoff email invite ?

Based on Friday it sounded they they were going top/down and focusing on Sr. Dir. is today still targeting upper leadership or free for all ?

Don’t care either way and I will be more relieved if I get laid off at this point.

Can we go back to those times? I'll even take a round here and there, but this constant threat of more cuts is absolutely exhausting.

Controller, director and a couple more bounced. Ruthless!

As you all know 75% of teh contractors in CX were made redundant during the last 3 months. Most of it happened in the CX centres.
The latest is, CX is getting rid of all small accounts and they are keeping only what they call signature accounts. These are major SP accounts like AT&T,verizon, BT, TI, DT,Telstra etc.
The CX enterprise business is in a lot of trouble for a long time. So except for few strategic accounts like Microsoft,google, etc, CX is getting rid of all small accounts. Their plan is to manage such accounts through partners. This is a big shift that will happen in the next 12 months. As a primary step, they are planning to cut 15% of all blue badges in all theaters. They are planning to justify it with AI efficiency improvement and margin pressure. So Braze for it amigos.

I'm on GT.. we're a supporting function, cost center, I get it, we're going to be targeted for cuts. But airmi makes the actual product, don't they?

No growth company divests from producing its producing its actual main product. No amount of 'modernization' is going to make up for lost capacity from manpower, as I see it.

Yes layoffs su-k, but coming back if we aren’t cut to the same bloated, toxic and clueless tech leadership is going to be brutal.
Not confident any meaningful cuts will happen at the tech leadership level. Will still be director reporting to director reporting to a couple layered sr dir under a couple of layered vp’s.

Heard this from multiple sources: they are just waiting for the split, and as soon as that’s over, the cuts will be DEEP.

We've been working under a regime of cuts and layoffs for so long, with no follow-through, no plan, that it feels like we've finally hit the breaking point. Not that I care anymore. When your own odds of getting cut in the near future are that high, why buy into the pressure to go above and beyond? I'm done.

Many U.S. companies across various industries announced layoffs. Workforce reductions continue nationwide due to economic pressures. Pennsylvania's unemployment rate increased to 4.2 percent. Several Pennsylvania companies issued WARN notices for impending job cuts. Layoffs span industries including technology, finance, and manufacturing.

Philadelphia, PA

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/across-pa/thousands-layoffs-announced-including-pa-companies

This is just a reminder to everyone that we have the ability to vote for or against the board members that deny us raises and approve the salaries and bonuses for the MC.

Use them. Later this year when the voting comes about USE YOUR VOTE. They won't pay attention to the TTUS but they certainly will pay attention when their shareholders start voting against them..

This or next month?

A small round of around 10 employees. Could be more soon.

No raises for thousands but keep millions for GK and her creepy MC? Cutting more and more benefits all the time? Worst RTO in the industry that shows they don’t care about families and work life balance? Failed corporate real estate strategy that creates enormous costs for people to commute multiple hours each way and thousands of them didn’t get raises? Shipping jobs out of America? Laying off thousands? Etc. This is the worst senior leadership team in the business.

anyone else see the sick irony of execs posting how much centerwell values patient mental health after cutting all the lcsws? insulting to think vendor pals will do the work

Did this already happen? What I mean by that is, were people already notified and their end dates are in May and June or is this something new that's about to take place?

https://dailyvoice.com/nj/long-branch/amazon-blue-cross-among-biggest-nj-layoffs-in-early-2026/

Can they be so heartless to cut us after so many of us uprooted our lives to work here?

Do we know anything?

CPAC is laying off staff and cutting programs. This decision comes despite a recent CRTC wholesale rate increase approval. The channel will cease production of PrimeTime Politics and L'Essentiel. CPAC faces accelerating revenue declines and market uncertainty. Subscriber erosion has nearly doubled since 2024.

https://broadcastdialogue.com/cpac-cuts-staff-cancels-programs-as-financial-pressures-intensify/

Thousands of workers in New Jersey face layoffs in early 2026. State WARN filings detail job cuts across various industries. Amazon reported the largest number of affected employees statewide. Other major companies include Blue Cross Blue Shield and Bristol Myers Squibb. These layoffs impact communities from Bergen County to South Jersey.

New Jersey

https://dailyvoice.com/nj/long-branch/amazon-blue-cross-among-biggest-nj-layoffs-in-early-2026/

Butler County's Board of Developmental Disabilities announced significant cuts. The agency plans to reduce staff by 24%, eliminating 31 positions. These measures, including a building transfer, will cut its budget by $8.4 million. Service demand has increased 400% since 2004, but the budget has remained unchanged. The board seeks a new levy in May to fund critical programs for 4,300 residents.

Butler County, Ohio

https://local12.com/news/local/not-taken-lightly-layoffs-agency-impacts-vulnerable-residents-butler-county-board-developmental-disabilities-mental-physical-staff-staffing-fired-firing-budget-cost-expenses-insideout-studio-hamilton-services-vote-voting-enrollment-demand-cincinnati

Only a few hundred from the planned thousands were cut in this round. I don't know when it'll continue, but it'll continue soon enough. Be prepared, folks.

Canby School District is implementing staff reductions. Fifty-three employees received layoff notices for the 2026-27 school year. These cuts are due to a $6.3 million budget shortfall. Superintendent Jennifer Patterson informed the community about the financial issues. A five-year school operating levy will appear on the May 19 ballot.

Canby, Oregon

https://woodburnindependent.com/2026/04/21/layoff-notices-going-out-to-canby-school-district-employees/

Cannot say more, but some teams in Risk are being considered for cuts. Target looks like around at least 20 percent of teams in high-cost locations should be gone by EoY. This would be either through relocation to cheaper place or redundancy.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is conducting its largest layoffs in years. A 2012 state law, House Bill 525, uniquely governs these decisions. This law requires the district to consider evaluations, licensure, and subject area, not just seniority. Approximately 410 employees, including 146 teachers, are being laid off. These cuts aim to address lower enrollment and budget deficits.

Cleveland, Ohio

https://www.cleveland.com/education/2026/04/how-a-law-from-2012-is-shaping-clevelands-largest-teacher-layoffs-in-years.html

Judging by who took on our debt and turned it into equity, I'm hoping the goal here could be to improve results rather than cut costs from the get go. I could be wrong, but we'll see, I guess.

Something tells me something major is coming.