Chaos today in the support office as there are almost no seats left and still many more to come from opo. So either there’s going to be layoffs or someone needs to learn to do math.

Hope CEO reassures them not to fear about their jobs and give them the holidays back. Take care of people and they will take care of business. Say nice motivating words, it will energize them. Please, I beg.

Imagine expecting low salary Store Managers to drive these changes with broken equipment at the end of it's life cycle, angry employees on the heels of a 2% raise in November, and non stop harassment and threats about numbers/store condition/customer... — read more 

I'd be happy to finally put this sh-t show in the rearview mirror.

Sycamore does it differently. Tomorrows operations call will reveal the new structure

Nothing like this is announced. You are expected to go to Deerfield on Monday.

Has anyone heard rumors about which VPs are going to get cut? If so, that will give hints about what corporate teams are in danger.

It would be great to know more. The uncertainty and anticipation are ten times worse than just losing your job today.

This is a horrible sign for corporate staff! I have a strong feeling they plan to do mass layoffs prior to 2/2 and that's why they halted the move so suddenly. Why they didn't figure this out sooner is beyond me. Not much shocks me here though.

Word is new seating assignments have been announced in Deerfield support office. But that the areas assignments for the most part aren't big enough to accommodate all the team members. Also, that the parking lot will be 325-350'ish spots short once... — read more 

First week of February announcement of RVP and DPR position being eliminated. New role “Senior Operations Manager” to replace RVP/DPR. DM role will have average of 25 stores that reports to new SOM. Front end and Pharmacy will be separated for DM... — read more 

Not many visitors any more, does anyone know why?

Layoffs are not going to come after so many people voluntarily leaving. It is good as it won’t affect people in bad way. It is better to go find a job that pays a bit less instead of getting a layoff. If they offered, 5K pay cut for working from... — read more 

Goal: Decrease operating cost by reducing high salary people and not paying for hourly worker benefits as there are many store employees. Take away store employee holidays so the full timers quit. Huge savings on the benefits. Then only hire part... — read more 

When separating from WBA, market cap for the combined WBA was worth 8 billion. After they separated into individual companies like Walgreens, Boots, Alliance, Village MD etc, how much do you think just Walgreens by itself is worth? I don’t think it... — read more 

Let us get some idea about how many people got discouraged and have left the company. Only like the post if you left the company or are in process of leaving because of OPO closure.

We all know that the timeline to make a room OPO employees at Deerfield. Based on that what could possible time line look like for re-org and may be layoffs. Here is what I think it may look like: Identify who they will still stay with the company... — read more 

OPO employees having meeting with their manager seeming to gauge interest in leaving over the change. Are they making a list of who to let go due to “downsizing”?

So now the rumors are that any layoffs will be in February, once the impact of OPO closing and related resignations can be seen. Likely reorgs across the board. With so many resignations, will there even be layoffs? Thoughts?

Pretty hard to work in an environment like you do...wondering what is happening or going to happen. Sad

People have to feed their families by earning from their jobs at Walgreens. Please don’t cause panic here with Fake Info or things you think may happen. Post only if you know things are happening in next two weeks.

Dollar Tree is quietly taking many shuttered Walgreens and CVS locations. Once they have enough they will add pharmacy and Starbucks, Ulta or Sephora. Any poor strategic actions like making experienced people quit will just accelerate that make their... — read more 

This is coming from your friends across the highway in Deerfield (for now) at Essendant. Sycamore will destroy Walgreens and it will be torture before death. Watch out for yourself, try to get out, don't wait around for things to get better or any... — read more 

This company is going to collapse, and you need to prepare yourself for that. I left many years ago because I saw the writing on the wall. The recent sale to private equity will not save the company; it's the final death knell. Let me tell you a... — read more 

Is this likely how the layoffs will go down? Store level employees should be mostly fine. Most likely cut is BWC. High paid SMs might be a target down the line, but I think the focus will be DM and above in January. OP: @a2+1kd6vad2r

The Christmas season is coming to an end. The Valentines Aisle is to be set in full in less than 3 weeks. Who do you think, at store level, is going to be laid off first? High paid SMs, high tier SMs, Hourly or Salary ESMs, IS or ISL, lessen the... — read more 

AI can be very helpful if used correctly. Lot of talk that it can replace human workers. That is absolute garbage. AI helps you do your job better. I am choosing words carefully and not saying faster. Before AI, it was hard to achieve required... — read more 

Leaders in past did not consider location and noisy office of its head quarter was the problem in turning company around. My advice sell it and build a nice office convenient to all. Even if it can only house 55% capacity. We can take turns going to... — read more 

Ok, let me get this straight, Walgreens wants employees to donate to a fund to help under paid coworkers? Am I understanding this correctly? That can't be what it truly is. No company would expect its employees to make up the pay gap for them not... — read more 

Sycamore is set to replicate the approach they used with Staples for Walgreens, establishing a Global Capability Center (GCC) and relocating over 70% IT jobs to India. TCS will be supporting this transition. Good Luck to those who are still with... — read more 

Confirmed from someone in finance and HR. AI, moving many jobs to India, and new leadership found many teams doing similar work.

With all these leadership announcements, do we think these senior leaders (Manmohan Mahajan (Finance), Lanesha Minnix (legal), Beth Leonard (Corporate Affairs), Erick Rudiak (CISO), etc., to name a few of the most recent ones) all "decided to leave... — read more 

This is a theory. They implemented this new bag check policy the same week that DM's emphasized on the weekly conference call how SM's have to be working 8-5 (no matter your store hours) while also emphasizing how they're tracking bags checks full... — read more 

What am I missing?

We heard this week that there is a hiring freeze on field leaders - DM and up. It seems obviously we’re about to see a big realignment and layoffs. Wondering what everyone is hearing?

If you are planning on taking Walgreens private, wouldn't you want to pay as little as possible to do so? And, once you own the company, wouldn't you want to "improve" it easily to make as much money as you can when you sell it or have it go public... — read more 

Head of the asset protection department let go?

Have you or someone you know been disciplined for non compliance of RTO rules? Asking for a friend...