#employeerelations

It's not by choice, trust me. There are a few good reasons why some of us are still here. The job market is tough right now, so it's not as if it's so easy to leave. Having a job, any job, is a big deal. I also appreciate the health benefits because I can't afford to be without medical coverage for a single day. Expecting that people who're not happy here would just up and leave is incredibly naive and not in touch with reality.

Employees describe shock, demotions, and a rapid overhaul following Advent’s $2.5 billion takeover.

“Sapiens was a very family-friendly and pleasant company for many years. CEO Roni Al-Dor was a people person. Employees went through fire and water with him, which is why everyone is so surprised now, and deeply hurt,” says one employee.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/r1illfbebg

Wondering how many folks are seeking mental health services for the last 2 years of rolling massive layoffs to now end with performance management to reach the final HC. At least with Pat, there was compassion and empathy with the reorganizations.

At least they had the class to wait until after the holidays.

Do you foresee more mass layoffs? Reduced benefits? Or maybe some positive changes?

Companies are going to avoid large layoff announcements to skirt the WARN Act. The new trend is to target specific employees directly every day with small, bite-size layoffs. It won't be departments anymore, it will be me and you with a number and date already set for us.

Corporations Viewpoint -

Of any employee.

The Bottom Line.

Remember this, always.

Employees are considered an (Expendable) line item due to Cost of Salary, and Benefits.

Corporations Viewpoint -

Of any employee.

The Bottom Line.

Remember this, always.

Employees are considered an (Expendable) line item due to Cost of Salary, and Benefits.

Opened LinkedIn on this Monday morning to find lots of resignation announcements. What’s going on?

Shot in the dark here looking for some help. I left SAP in May 2025 and have been on COBRA administered by Health Equity/Wageworks. When logging on to make my January payment, I was told that SAP has moved to a new COBRA administrator. No notice was given. I have an email out to HR Direct, but I wanted to see if anyone knows who this is so I can speed up the process.

That's my resolution. No more giving more than I'm paid for. I do my hours and that's it. I'm done.

Having a job at DXC where I haven’t gotten a raise in four years effectively means that I’ve been taking a pay cut each year due to inflation, and my work has just been increasing. I can’t think of a single person outside of those at the very top who can be considered “lucky to have a job” here.

The reality is Qualcomm doesn’t treat employees like people. If you get laid off, you’ll be off their radar immediately. If you stick around, you’ll just be expected to work longer, follow every rule, and stay quiet no matter what. Your well-being comes first. Start looking for a new role. Trust me, it’s worth the effort.

Lately, it’s like I’m being pushed out without anyone saying it outright. Whenever I ask questions about a process, I get shut down and told to just figure it out. I’m not given the same time to learn new tasks as others, and when I flagged a coworker for mistreatment, it felt like I was the one in the wrong. Meanwhile, that coworker got promoted the same month after treating me poorly. I put in the work, my performance is strong, but recognition and support seem non-existent. Even small gestures others get, like acknowledgment on anniversaries, completely skip me. I honestly don’t know who to trust. Anyone else dealing with something similar?

A teammate who got laid off in the last round spent weeks helping a new hire learn the job, showing him the ropes, answering questions, in essence, training the person who would take over. And then suddenly, she's gone, without warning. The new hire is now doing her old role. I can’t wrap my head around how companies actually do this.

In case people are wondering why the job market is so employee-unfriendly, with so many people laid off and looking for work, including skilled, high-quality candidates, it’s no wonder employers are lowering requirements and lowballing offers. Something tells me things will get worse before they get better.

I don’t even want to think about what 2026 is going to be like, considering that for the past five years, if not longer, every single year has been worse in some respect than the one before it. More layoffs, fewer benefits, and a culture that keeps deteriorating. Let’s just say I’m not looking forward to finding out what the next year brings.

It's 2026 & ITS GO time ! GO= Results OR Get Out !Time to put $ & mouth together & stop the gaslighting & BS. Action+Results+Real "Digital Transformation." Clients & Employees want results from the Board & low producing Executives Who have no personality.

++Transparency~Publish Board Minutes & Agenda++employee, retiree, and client representation on board++
++Transparency~Publish Executive Compensation Packages++
++Transparency~Publish full financial & audit report in Annual Report
++Transparency~Publish full Rating Agencies reports on website++
++Transform Website++
++Transform Mobile App++
++Add Brokerage Accounts++
++Add Managed Accounts++
++Add Financial Plans++
++Add Retirement Score Calculator on Website++
++Reduce work loads for Client Relationship Managers & overworked and underpaid segments in Operations++
++New Leadership Over Operations, IT & Sales++
++Rebrand & change corporate name and hire a PR Firm to clean up poor external image++
++Automate all distributions & loans++eliminate paper like it was supposed to be done 15 yrs ago
++More CRM support & stop the wage theft working 60 hours per week++
++Change investments in 401k++
++Allow clients to communicate with Text & Chat++
++eliminate team CX as they SuCX. Use Mediallia to survey the F.u.CK out of participants
fire all non performers

• Streamline workloads for CRMs & Administrations Operations++new leaders needed !
  cut Executive Pay & 3 Year Special Pay Shares
  put laugh track of CFO on corporate website just for s.chits & giggles
• stop running behind competitors & get your as--s together w/system upgrades & legislation
  Implement associate solutions & stop paying consultants through the nose
  Eliminate 50 page performance review process & eliminate monthly webinars**
  ~~stop posting on Linkedin during company time & ban por.n during business hours
  fire heads of sales, it, admin ops, hr, call center, & all current execs & board mbers
  get Andrew cuomo, chris cuomo, & eric adams on board

Trying to get through the NEW yorker

I understand that they laid off employees in October and they encouraged them to reapply for their positions. Does anyone have information on how many were let go and how many have been brought back? I've heard they were considering external candidates because those who were let go were unofficially not meeting expectations. Is there any truth to this?

because the disciplinary letter did not work, manager suggested to look for other opportunities since her entire team department got wiped out...

Looks like at minimum, 2 Leap technical coaches were let go. As a former Leap Alumni, this is sad to see happen to the program that gave me my one way ticket into tech.

Does anyone know what’s going on with the Leap program? Have Leap alumni performances been improving? How much Leap alumni have been retained after an 5/10 year period? Is Fidelity hiring less Leap associates? Is Fidelity restructuring the learning criteria of Leap?

I, along with other Leap alumni, may have many more questions.

Long story short, Rif'd 10/30 with last day 11/13. Signed and email severance agreement 11/14 and received response 7 minutes later saying they received the agreement and are reviewing it.

Fast forward today, call the hotline and they said they didnt receive and are opening a case with People Team.

Anyone else go through this ringer?

The CEM tool in ServiceNow is just something to keep you busy and something you can get in trouble for if you don't enter your time. They use it under the guise of wanting to know what you're working on. But when you're assigned to one customer and bill your time in GPS against that customer, you know what I'm working on. The kicker on this tool is that you can't show more than 40 hours in a week against it. God forbid you actually show real hours you work, then there might be a lawsuit to pay management overtime!! It's just a time waster, and honestly, they don't track it. I didn't hear any issues until the end of the year, when I had a gap in time on the tool.

You all can post on this site every minute of every day and it won’t make a difference.

You want the public The analyst? that rate DXC n the financial markets to know what’s really is going on with. moral , non-existence merit pay increases

Then hit them where it will be seen , Pist in their social media posts, Linkedin in etc.

I have an am starting to get a lot more likes (people stepping up) than I did 2 years ago.

Also if you hate your employer so much , why are you still there, afraid to get another Job , don’t have the skills required, comfortable (i was and stayed 13 years with 2 pay increases)

https://fordauthority.com/2025/12/ford-blueoval-sk-battery-park-plant-will-close-in-february/

All workers at this facility will be laid off by 2/14/26

Hans used 5G to try and distract us from reality. Dan is using AI. The long term plan is not dictated by either of these technologies and while the changes and headcount reduction are part of a plan, we will not know what that plan is until it happens. A sell off? A shut down of all stores and migration to resellers? Moving wireline work to the newly acquired Frontier team? We don't know.

What we do know is the constant gaslighting over the years that has become nauseating. Telling us we have the best network and customer service when customers tell us the opposite?

Layoffs will resume Q1 of 2026. I am ready and waiting for my number to be pulled. With the writing clearly on the wall, how many people will be back on this website panicking because they did nothing to prepare for the inevitable? I hope it's a minimal amount but some will be blinded by a new year and an attempt at Q1 kick off meetings to distract the easily distracted.

We have a week left of 2025. Once the clock turns midnight, the peace and quiet is over and the cycle will start again.

Ask questions, ask for clarification when the answer doesn't make sense, and remember you are not valued as a person, you are a dispensable number and will be treated as such very soon. Meanwhile, our executives are raking in millions, annually.

Dan Schulman

Verizon Compensation (2025 onwards)
Base Salary: $1.5 million annually.
Short-Term Incentive: Target of 250% of base salary (prorated for 2025).
Long-Term Incentives (Equity): RSU/PSU grants with target values potentially reaching $9.5M and $20M, vesting over time.
Total Potential: Can reach nearly $60 million, depending on performance.

Anyone else missing their paycheck today?

I’ve heard from a few people that PSGs are being suppressed and advancing to 25 and higher will be much less common than before. I feel long overdue for a promotion (both in performance, % CO, expanded role, and time) but am not getting much support for even consideration. Am I capped out?

Why she is not updating her LI profile? Is she still at Nike?

In the last several years alone, we've had nearly a dozen rounds of layoffs and constant team shuffles. They took away stock options for most employees, cut a ton of benefits, and bonuses are a joke. At what point do you just admit the writing is on the wall? It feels like we're all just waiting for the next bad news to drop.

Sadly, employees are the ones paying the price. I spent years here thinking things would stabilize, but instead it was constant disruption and recurring layoffs. Management keeps experimenting, backtracking, and repeating failures, while workers are treated like disposable pieces. What a joke.

Lately, it seems like more people are just being let go. They're not calling it a layoff, and there's no severance. Just, quietly firing folks, I guess?

Based on conversations with the Works Council, here are the top three actions that the executive board is personally invested in to mold SAP the way they want.

1. SAP is enhancing the Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) in Europe. This is tied directly to the new Performance Measurement rolled out in Europe. The underlying premise is to give more power to managers to fire whoever they want to. Just give a bad performance for three times in a row and your reports will be automatically on a PIP and susceptible to getting fired.
2. Leanix and Walkme is undergoing a major restructuring in 2026 Q1. They will be moved under Signavio management and there will be new positions created to accommodate for the larger teams. However, only candidates based in Walldorf or nearby areas will be considered for manager and manager of managers positions even if the team is based elsewhere. They already did this at Signavio and we have managers who get to freely travel a lot because they are based at the HQ while 95% of their reports are in Berlin or other areas. Long-term Leanix and Walkme employees will be gently encouraged to leave just as they did with the Signavio management.
3. No more layoffs in Germany in 2026. The rhetoric for teeth brushing will intensify at the end of Q1 when the stock price goes below 200€ at XETRA but the Works Council already has an agreement for no more layoffs in 2026. The point they conceded on was the average salary hike which will be 2% and stock options which will have a very low budget and will be focused on employees who undergo role changes (e.g. Signavio people leads who were DEI coaches but are now development managers). In 2026, the public health insurance is going up by almost 5–6% but the salaries will not. On the other hand, the executive board bonuses are planned to be more than 20 million for CK and similarly higher for other members.

It is not easy to lay off employees in Europe so the executive board has a simple strategy. Divide and conquer. Put employees against their managers and vice versa. Discriminate against employees in regions besides Walldorf and nearby areas so they are against employees in those regions and vice versa. Make board areas competitive against one another so they will fight for budget.

Employees are so busy fighting against one another and worrying about their jobs and paying the bills that no one will question the share buybacks and why so much money is given to the executive board as bonuses. And life will go on.

Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy New Year too.

I can’t sleep after being laid off by digi-wreck a few months back and not finding anything to replace my job. I could not buy gifts this year for my kids and we are all scared.. I tried to apply for fast food, retail, and construction jobs until I find something in IT and they said I was over qualified. We will keep trying. Please don’t forget those of us that were laid off and those that will be losing their jobs next year. It is really sad and very real. I wish they had just told us there was a high possibility of lay offs in advance so we could have searched before the layoffs happened but they didn’t trust their teams . My family does wish you all happiness this holiday season.

In my old company, a colleague had a serious issue with a director and went to HR for help. She documented everything perfectly. Instead of investigating, HR scheduled a mediation where they sided with the director and suggested my colleague was not a team fit. It was a clear lesson that their only job is to protect the company from us. From what I've seen here so far, the same applies here.

Until next year!

I don't know if it's all dc's or just ours, but we have been flooded nonstop with freight to the point that some weeks we are working six days! Which didn't happen when we had three shifts which they got rid of in June now we have two, but thats funny because they brought a modified shift back for a few months till the beginning of this month. We had to work 5 hours today and we will have to work eights Friday and Saturday. And as a nice happy holidays to us they gave us gifts that they had of over stock from gifts with purchase.

Remote employees were once again showered with lavish gifts and people in Milwaukee got nothing. The only give TG the Grinch gave local employees was the gift of paying for more gas to commute, paying more for parking, and extra time in the restroom if you manage to find something to eat at the cafeteria. Bah humbug