IT jobs may go to Wipro or just OUT. With the St. Jude IT staff incoming as well, they will have to shed these skilled workers and keep the H1-B visa staff in India. Wipro is indeed taking over all controls, believing that the more control = better... — read more 

Abott is shutting down Ibis Biosciences.

Please post if you have more details about redundancies (HBU). Thank you!

To improve moral, honor & reward all employees regularly, bring back our beloved employee bonus program that SJM took away but kept it for the management only. Also, further invest in your employees which are your greatest asset. Or, so you say. And... — read more 

I know that people are concerned - don’t be - but I heard from someone pretty high up in our corporate office that they planned layoffs but that plan was abandoned, so we are safe here in Abbott Park.

That's the rumor, I left in 2015 so I cannot tell you about 2016 and 2017 layoffs but that's the rumor I am hearing as of Aug 2016

NY Times highlighted Abbott downsized... — read more 

Now, we have 180 folks gone, and Wipro will be taking over, they will for sure load the staff with super cheap #H1B visa holder, indentured servants who just work and ask no questions. Perforect. We were told about the cuts on Feb. 22 the last day on... — read more 

From the start Abbott Vascular strategically inserted native Irish employees in key positions at their Menlo Park site. Once their product is stabilized, bye-bye to that American manufacturing facility and the American workers' jobs, hello to Ireland... — read more 

Do you think that IT and Marketing might be affected by Abbott Labs Alere Merger Layoffs 2016? How confident are you?

What is the likelihood of Abbot Labs layoffs in Abbott Park in 2016? Please let me know if you have any information.

Abbott Nutrition laid off 20 employees at it's Columbus, OH, Stelzer Road facility. These positions were in the R&D laboratories.

Anybody has more info here?

after the layoffs were announced, management here said practically nothing about them. IT is being outsourced to another company. Can elements of R&D and manufacturing be far behind?

I did not see much talk about Abbott layoffs on Cafe Pharma as well, for whatever reason there is not much folks discussing it - however, 2014 will turn out to be a huge layoff year for us.

Cuts are happening all the time, downsizing is here to stay. Moving jobs overseas and finding efficiency in the process (maybe). Vascular used to be great but now it's all going down hill. I think Abbott had around 5000 employees, now we have less... — read more 

I heard many rumors about the cuts in Q1 - anyone with Abbott who can confirm this.

there was a "more than 200 people cut" in the vascular group a few months back - this is all the game the execs are playing, they know that the wall street will react positively to the cuts and they are playing it for their own bonuses. abbott is... — read more 

2K in 2011, 1K in 2012, god-knows-how-many in 2013 --- I am sure 2014 will be as good for Abbott as the previous three years