#layoffs

Does anyone have any information on upcoming RIF or VSP? Please share what you know.

Are we looking at more cuts, or finally a break?

Assume the worst, regardless of what you're told. Layoffs might be over, but don't act like it. This is my second takeover. The first was a nightmare, for me and the company. I'm lining up options and staying ready. Things can go sideways in an instant, with no notice at all.

Everyone's saying it'll be more than the 5% they mentioned, but nobody seems to have details. At least I haven't heard anything concrete.

Most definitely not here. They treat us worse than disposable, and that's already rock bottom. Don't fall for the pay, the promises, or the fear tactics. Your odds of being let go soon after moving are way higher than the move ever working out.

It's nearly impossible to keep up with the workload. My team lost more people in the latest round. Does anyone actually consider whether teams can still function when making these cuts? Sure doesn't feel like it.

Rumors are flying about cuts tied to the reorg, but I've got nothing solid. Some layoffs make sense with any reorganization, but folks are talking about a big round. If you know something real, please share.

No one's even pretending to steer anymore. Just managed decline, slow and steady. Layoffs forever, now reaching offshore too. There's hardly any core left, both among employees and leadership, that could pull off a turnaround, if that was ever the plan. Am I off base here?

From what I gather, these are standalone, triggered by the steep drop in Gardasil sales. Given where things are headed, I'm worried we'll see more layoffs beyond the announced targets. It's terrifying, really, especially with the industry-wide contraction in jobs.

Since Home and community townhall for 03/05 was cancelled and rescheduled to 03/26, what area do we think will be getting laid off this coming Thursday?

That is what I am hearing from tech mgrs. No such big layoffs.

We all know what's coming once the latest acquisition goes through. Things were already bad, and they're about to become much, much worse. Might as well start looking for something new right away, although good options seem to be shrinking every single day.

We have more than enough of those, and yet it doesn't seem any were affected by these layoffs.

They'll take your dedication, thank you for it, then lay you off like it's nothing. Don't be loyal to a place that sees you as replaceable. Learn from those of us who've been through it.

Do we know?

Let’s be real about why all support organizations are being moved under Vistance Networks: it’s to grease the wheels for selling off Ruckus and ANS.

By stripping IT, Finance, and HR out of the main entities, they’re effectively lowering the operating costs of the units they want to sell. Any buyer is going to have their own support infrastructure already in place; they don’t want our overhead. This move allows a buyer to "plug and play" the core business without the messy optics of immediate mass layoffs post-acquisition.

If you’ve been through a merger before, you know support staff are always the first to go. This restructuring just handles the "trimming" ahead of time to make the balance sheets look prettier for a handoff.

Bumping from @24p+1kgszbyzr.

With the Gulf crisis that exploded yesterday, meaning O&G is cool again, will EM not relax its PIP season harvesting?

Does anyone know how many people have been cut total? How many more to go before this "restructuring" is done? Are we done or not? I just want a date when I can stop being terrified every morning.

https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-paramount-deal-layoffs-110-billion

Ford is a shadow of its former self. Sure, maybe a few areas are okay, but overall it's been a decade-long decline. If you're young and have skills, go somewhere that actually values you. Unless leadership completely changes, which won't happen, it's just more cuts from here.

Link to the article: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/business/2026/02/28/nordstrom-department-store-closing-christiana-mall-location/88917538007/
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCAruqmrrU

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-business/estee-lauder-to-lay-off-68-employees-at-aveda-facility

Now I'm hoping for one. My workload is already piling up and it's just going to get worse. This job has nothing left for me anyway.

More stores will close, more people will go. Until there's nothing left to close and nobody left to fire.

Just focus on your work. We will make sure you will be fired at the right time. We will push you to complete work by March and June, etc., but you assume you are safe even when your peer is laid off. Be honest at your work even when your manager hides that you will be moved or laid off in the next few months and talks with you simply face to face, thinking he is making a fool of you and making you work. Still, just focus on your work and assume everything is fine around you till your manager says you are done.

You might think your group is safe. You might have been told the cuts are done. Don't believe it. Stay prepared. Getting blindsided is way worse than expecting it and being wrong.

Now convinced more than ever that the dysfunction is intentional to get you to quit. Don’t get fatigued. Make them fire you.

Seventy-two people are slated for cuts. A WARN has already been issued, with layoffs effective April 21. At least it gives those impacted some time to prepare. Wishing the best to everyone affected. The job market is not exactly easy right now.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/racine-county/microsoft-data-center-layoffs-leave-workers-stunned-after-relocating-for-tech-jobs

Am I the only one thinking about this? Is anyone else concerned we have to go into the office every single day… in time square…. After ellisons buddy Trump started a war with Iran….. commute in the busy subways to the office IN TIME SQUARE…. so now on top off thinking about layoffs survival I have to think about ACTUALLY surviving life just to get to work where I don’t actually have to sit in the office to do my job? Anyone else?

Days, weeks, months?

This is the "woman" who went MIA when her workforce was being gutted with 15,000 layoffs. Now she is holding up post it notes suggesting that employees should love their employer to make the company successful.

Are other employees so delusional they buy into this nonsense? Is she that far removed from reality? Is she still smoking the same stuff that made her think employees said they wanted to return to the office and stated that in their employee surveys?

Do these executives do this stuff and then meet to laugh at how gullible their employees are?

Anybody know if there's truth to the rumors about more cuts before March is over?

Had a solid four years going until leadership changed and suddenly I was out. Before tech I was a director at a global company. Now at mid 40s with twenty years experience and an MBA, I can't get anyone to call back. Two months and not even a single interview. I know that doesn't sound long but it stings differently when you've worked this hard your whole life only to be dismissed.

Every time there is a calendar invite from leadership, it feels ominous. Are we looking at another round of layoffs soon?

When did every week become potential-layoffs week? And why are we okay with it? Why are we just accepting it?

Even a month later, I'm not over it. They pushed me out at 59 after seven years of top performance reviews and max bonuses. Almost everyone I know who was let go is over fifty. Some were just a few years from retirement. I'm sick about it every single day. Let my situation be a warning. You cannot trust any of them.