OK, so Target has too many "leaders" and is top heavy as an organization, and you have to be pretty or dress well to get promoted. Understood and agreed. Let's not all preach to the choir about who SHOULD be laid off, and keep this thread about... — read more 

I think there are too many leaders above PG 16 which creates it top management heavy org.It creates so many layers. At least PG 16 and below are working at grass root levels in getting the things resolved on daily basis. They have deal to with hard... — read more 

The leaders for earlier 10/10 layoffs are promoted. Kudos Target India!!

Not Feb, for India

It has been pushed to Feb due to credit card fraud

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2014/01/03/zappos-gets-rid-of-all-managers

My director doesn't have that meeting on calendar (7-9 on the 15th) but our HR person does have the 9-3 meeting. Our HR person is HQHR, so make of that what you will. It's been business as usual in our department - they continue to move people around... — read more 

Any news here, I see a lot of posts about Target India, but not much about Target MN? Any updates?

Thanks!

Totally agree Anonymous2189. Well said! Faker the better to rule at Target for now. So infact people who went up the ladder in general (or atleast the 80% of them who went up the ladder) need to be laidoff if HR is smart enough to understand this as... — read more 

If the worst happens reach out to your network and former coworkers who moved on. Most of us would like to help. It took me about 4-5 weeks in mn to find another job after being let go. Best luck and hope nothing comes of the rumors.

+1 to anonomous123 who pointed out that the ones doing the actual work are continually brought down at Target. The ONLY thing that matters in getting ahead is personal marketing skills. The faker you can be, the better off you will be. Its a shame to... — read more 

Here at FRS - Scott Kennedy just sent this out. Replace the word roadmap with layoffs... "As you may know, we have been refining a new FRS Strategic Roadmap that will guide our work over the next year and kick off the goal-planning process for 2014... — read more 

Any news?

Where did you work? Where did you go? Good luck?

What was a wonderful and creative workplace has become a place of fear and mediocrity. Target was the industry benchmark. Times and trends change and the truly thoughtful companies understand impermanence and change. Target lost focus and chose to... — read more 

Which departments? Do we know who is going to be cut?

The next RIF is projected to be Wednesday, January 15th. All the directors have a private meeting from 7-9 and the HR folks have private meeting from 9-3 on that day. Some say it could be as many as 3,500 team members.

Some senior Management ( Mpls ) do not know the difference between T&M and fixed bid... Vendors add an "Extra charge" when they do fixed bid..but in Target Vendor can put a Fixed bid and later can keep on adding reasons to increase cost , reduce... — read more 

I think top management who is the culprit in screwing up the things when almost everything was going fine..They want to hide under new initiative. Guess what is the initiative..... initiative is.."Compare to Google & Amazon".

TTS is not an IT Company hence the current COE concept will not be useful and we need to be Business alined like Supply chain , .com

Dont compare Target / TTS to Amazon , google. To become Amazon, first leadership at the top has to change, they have to be technical hands on and technology aware and not initiative aware( Basically useless work or no work :))specially in Target... — read more 

It is common sense..with what is going on with Target, there will be RIF. What else companies do..just RIF the employees which is the easiest thing to do, to show wall street on cost cutting and keep the share price up. They never fix the real reason... — read more 

Hey ,many say there is layoff but can anyone confirm if they heard from reliable sources. There was lot of rumors on November which was false. Un necessary rumors makes people nervous here in Target India

What pyramids is the layoff for? OnlyTTS or even Ebi merch etc?

Hey how do you say its official .There is nothing in public domain / press release / Internal Emails... as of now

It's confirmed and official now. Layoff WILL happen in the US & India during the month.

BA(TI)/BTT(MPLS) ,PM(PMCOE both location)/Delivery lead (TI-COE) over lap may get Targeted in the 1st list

Looks like your perspective may be right from a finance perspective.Many are waiting for the day to come ..This wait is making good performers to move away...we are seeing some resignations in Target India in recent past. This is demotivating to... — read more 

2062 any additional info on size, scope or area.

Anonymous2021...sorry, but your view on the domestic/US/HQ layoff is inconsistent with every other rumor that has been going around. The whole point of the "re-org" is to get the layoff payouts on 2013's books so Target can start 2014 fresh and lean... — read more 

They way and the Kind of people are promoted as Group Manager / KMG in Target India ,one should not be surprised if the count of KMGs in Target India is found more them Project Managers or TAs :)

1200 in TTS 2300 In total including Business Services,procurement,HR,Aadmin

Anyone?

Target can get into a SOW with TCS/WIPRO on knowledge ramp up and Layoff project...These organization are good in doing this in their org. They use silly reasons like use of Email for personal communication , Submission of fake Medical bills,multiple... — read more 

Target India is getting close with NASCOM ( Indian IT Association) in order to get their support when it does this clean up and not get into issues. They had sponsored their meeting in GWS location some time back. This is all preparation for the... — read more