#cuts

Prudential Financial is laying off 63 employees in New Jersey between November 16 and December 16, 2025, according to a state filing. The company said the cuts are part of ongoing restructuring to align its workforce with strategy and maintain competitiveness, though it did not specify which positions will be affected.

This follows several earlier rounds of layoffs. In July 2025, Prudential announced 57 job cuts, and in 2024 it eliminated 637 positions across four separate rounds, including a single reduction of 238 jobs in September of that year.

The layoffs come despite Prudential’s stock rising 6 percent in September 2025, fueled by stronger-than-expected sales and capital returns. However, the company reported weaker earnings, with Q2 net income falling to $533 million from $1.2 billion the year prior and posting $516 million in realized investment losses.

Prudential also recently elected Joseph Wolk, CFO of Johnson & Johnson, to its board of directors as an independent member, effective September 30.

Prairie Public Television has laid off 12 staff members as it begins its new fiscal year, cutting seven employees and eliminating five open positions, which amounts to about 18 percent of its workforce.

CEO John Harris said the move was necessary after Prairie Public lost about $2 million in annual revenue following federal funding cuts and reductions in the state budget. This amounted to a 25 percent decline in revenue.

Despite the cuts, Harris emphasized the organization’s commitment to keeping all transmitters online and continuing to serve North Dakota communities with the resources available.

Pack Health, a Birmingham-based digital health coaching company owned by Quest Diagnostics, is shutting down by the end of 2025 and cutting 98 jobs. The company cited slower-than-expected market adoption and the loss of a major customer as reasons for the closure.

Employees were notified this week, with some departing immediately. Quest said it will provide support to affected staff.

Pack Health was once considered one of Birmingham’s startup success stories, announcing a $5 million headquarters expansion in 2023 that promised 200 new jobs and significant economic impact. Its closure contributes to a rising trend of layoffs in Alabama, with more than 3,200 workers affected by mass layoffs and closures in the state so far this year.

Paycom has laid off more than 500 employees in Oklahoma City as part of a restructuring effort driven by automation and artificial intelligence. The cuts affect non-client-facing, back-office roles, while client-facing jobs remain unaffected.

The company said the move is due to efficiencies created by AI-driven technologies. A WARN notice was filed, and employees were notified on Wednesday morning.

Paycom is offering severance packages, outplacement services, and access to internal job opportunities. Despite the layoffs, the company says it will continue hiring for open positions in client-facing areas and remains financially strong.

https://www.news9.com/story/68dd487999d76e9f790c57d1/paycom-layoff-500-okc-employees

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette has begun layoffs as it works to address a $25 million budget deficit... President Jamie Hebert announced in a letter that the Office of Sustainability and Community Engagement is being closed while the Offices of Communications and Marketing and Auxiliary Services are being restructured. So far, six staff positions have been eliminated.

Hebert acknowledged the personal impact of the cuts, saying the university aims to protect the student experience, support faculty, and minimize human impact while restoring financial stability. A town hall is scheduled to provide updates and hear from the campus community.

https://www.katc.com/lafayette-parish/interim-president-announces-layoffs-at-ul

Google Cloud has laid off employees despite record-breaking financial results. Workers in user experience and design roles were among those affected, with several posting about the cuts on LinkedIn. Notifications were sent via email earlier this week.

The layoffs come as Google Cloud reported $13.6 billion in Q2 2025 revenue, up 32 percent year-over-year, with operating income hitting $2.8 billion, up 33 percent. The company holds 13 percent global cloud infrastructure market share, ranking third behind AWS (30 percent) and Microsoft (20 percent).

CEO Thomas Kurian recently emphasized the company’s $106 billion backlog and focus on operating discipline, saying Google Cloud is outpacing AWS and Microsoft in revenue growth.

The layoffs add to a broader industry trend, with more than 90,000 tech workers losing jobs in 2025 so far.

Anyone aware of upcoming layoffs at gas utility? It's the season and we are integrating 3 new utilities.

1,200 job cuts (~20% of the remaining workforce) announced yesterday at a European Forum meeting.
Head offices employees “offered”to move to production sites. Significant headcount reduction in GBCs at Prague (Czech Republic) and Budapest (Hungary), with jobs transferred to... Guess where? India, bingo.
This does not factor in possible sales/shutdown of chemical sites in the UK and Belgium.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/red_hatters_to_be_big/

Sep30 1pm UTC - Oct 4am UTC totals: 468 layoffs.
September totals (except Sep01): 6275 layoffs, and 861 additions.
Methodology and day-by-day breakdown is in comments.
This is a floor estimate, as many non-NA regions have layoffs with people still present in Slack and their access is fully cut with large delay.

Today, September 30th, Neogen Corporation laid off 200 employees without warning. There is no reason for this!

https://www.itweb.co.za/article/sa-cannot-shrug-off-ongoing-job-losses-in-global-tech-industry/KzQenqjyz3zMZd2r

Probably a lot more. They just rely on slopfarms that talk about one particular wave while ignoring all other data points.

A year ago, Dell Technologies made a big, bold move: it slashed nearly half of its executive leadership, claiming there were simply too many cooks in the kitchen. Cost savings were touted, “streamlining” was the buzzword, and the company pitched the decision as a smarter, leaner way forward. To top it off, product marketing (FPM) was folded under marketing. The logic? Keep all things “marketing” under one roof. Simple, clean, efficient.

Fast forward just twelve months… and things look a little less logical.

Dell has now re-hired a former exec—someone who had been let go years back—this time with a hefty paycheck. Not only that, the very same FPM org that was tucked neatly under marketing has been yanked out again and repositioned under this new hire. The shiny new label? RevOps.

Watch it in real time www.thelayoff.com/t/16zEvLP3 or @OP+16zEvLP3

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/avalanche-confirms-layoffs-and-studio-closure-after-halting-contraband-development

Avalanche didn't mention Contraband or Microsoft when announcing its restructuring plan. The company simply stated it has been impacted by "challenges to our business and the industry."

Heard some folks are getting whacked starting tomorrow.

Ceremonies have started..

1200 jobs cut in Europe. Brussels office closing. Moves to Antwerp and Prague.

200 job cuts in Prague, but taking in ~90 from Brussels.

Singapore office to close. Employees moving to refinery with cuts.

900 cuts at Imperial oil (all above-field, 350 from sites, rest from Calgary)
Calgary office closing, employees moved to Strathcona.

20% reduction in headcount in ExxonMobil Canada (separate from Imperial Oil)

Employees are our greatest asset*

• Provided we can pay them peanuts in developing nations

Telling some of your top performers and employees that the decision to cut your job was done to "strengthen the company". Next month they'll be saying their people is their power. It used to be "we only keep the elite, top performing" as if your status here is some badge of honor. Only the best get to stay. Think that lie has run its course. They think folks who continually refuse to pull their weight, do the bare minimum and constantly whine about the need to do more will match the work ethic of the folks they are laying off. Good luck with that. Ive given up my weekends, evenings and worked so many hours because of these so called competitive moves. Who's going to do that now? This is about a bottom line, a bottom line gets you bottom of the bucket quality. I hope this company finally gets what it deserves. For folks outside of the company thinking of doing business with Imperial or ExxonMobil. Stay far far away. Unless you love not getting paid, having no one to answer your phone calls and now no one to hold those individuals accountable to do either of those things.

This is the favorite time of the year for Staples “holiday greetings” through November layoffs.

Get ready to be ready, it will be about cutting the staff, cost, manager preference, or last hard first fired.

Update your résumé, pay for it if you can NOW and circulate!

Connect with recruiters and send the hiring managers your resume directly through Linkedin or company email.

Pick out the top 10 companies (maybe 20-40), and start networking now.

I have a great track record over the last decade plus. I have gotten a raise for exceeding or meeting expectation every year . Several of those years have been exceeding, but I’m not going to wait. I have never seen it this bad.

When the layoffs happen, I noticed that my workload increases, but it doesn’t equal out to financial compensation if they were to hire a person to do it full-time! I refuse to be cheap labor for more time than I have to.

Most who leave Staples are compensated MORE and are less stressed.

Good luck, stay strong, be proactive!

Continuing to cut and slice the organization when you've already won. By his words, we are already in a league of our own... so let's ruin organizational morale further. Winning at all cost is an endless pursuit.

Story by Katherine Hamilton

Imperial Oil plans to reduce its workforce by 20% by the end of 2027.

The job cuts, along with broader restructuring efforts, are expected to save $150 million a year by 2028, the Canadian oil company said Monday.

Imperial had 5,100 regular employees at the end of 2024, according to its annual report.

The other restructuring efforts include working more closely with its major shareholder, ExxonMobil, to drive productivity improvements, including higher production, reduced downtime, lower unit operating costs and better project planning. Imperial also said it plans to further consolidate activities to its operating sites.

The Calgary, Alberta, company expects a one-time restructuring charge of $330 million before taxes in the third quarter. Its 2025 guidance is unchanged.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/imperial-oil-to-cut-20-of-workforce-in-next-two-years

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/exxon-mobil-cut-2000-jobs-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-30/

Teradata’s still a beast in the data world we're decades in and still running some of the biggest workloads out there. Shifting from an appliance based company to a Cloud, hybrid, real-time analytics, we can't stop winning. The direction of vantage is strong

And about the chatter this week yeah, there are some cuts, but it’s mostly performance trimming, the kind of thing every big tech shop does. Look at Google, Meta, Amazon, and even Qualcomm. We can support our laid off coworkers and still appreciate what we have here. Teradata skills are transferrable anywhere. The core product teams surrounding vantage aren’t going anywhere, and the tech is as strong as ever.

Teradata isn’t slowing down. The platform is rock solid, and that’s why the biggest players keep trusting it!

not a good sign for the economy too.
30+ people were let go.
we fear that more will be let go.
godspeed all

From another thread:

900 Calgary campus employees gone. The remaining folks will be shipped to the manufacturing sites primarily Strathcona (Edmonton).

Some site folks (non wage) are to be replaced by higher performing folks from the Calgary move. Redundant positions especially in the mid to higher CLs at the sites to be replaced with Calgary folks that have been working global roles.

Was just laid off after over 4 years of working there. Can’t say it was unexpected since people seem to be randomly let go (people hitting quotas, high performers, average) and others that don’t seem to pull their own weight still there. Maybe they’re connected

About Union Pacific Corp.:
The Union Pacific Railroad is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans (as of 2016). The Union Pacific Railroad system is the largest in the United States and employs over 40,000 workers. The company is one of the largest transportation companies in the world and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

We are now about what 28000 employees... maybe? And they HAD 8500 locomotives, they only are running maybe 3300? How many are stored broke or have been sold off?

Who makes the decision on who actually gets laid off? And is it mainly the non-senior people who get cut?

LAYOFFS CONFIRMED THROUGH NOVEMBER:

"Accenture Revenue Rises 7% as Layoffs Continue Through November"

https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/accenture-revenue-rises-7-as-layoffs-continue-through/497601

JOB OPENINGS BY COUNTRY BASED ON LINKEDIN NUMBERS (DATA AS OF SEPT 26, 2025)

LinkedIn Accenture Job Openings in India: 26,000+ Accenture Jobs in India
(several in recruiting, which is an indicator of offshoring only increasing)

LinkedIn Accenture Job Openings in the USA: 1,000+ Accenture Jobs in United States

LinkedIn Accenture Job Openings in the UK: 324 Accenture Jobs in United Kingdom

Other (selected) countries: 110 Accenture Jobs in Costa Rica, 283 Accenture Jobs in Argentina, 238 Accenture Jobs in Brazil, 164 Accenture Jobs in México, 162 Accenture Jobs in DACH (Germany, Switzerland, Austria), 104 Accenture Jobs in France, 248 Accenture Jobs in Spain, 335 Accenture Jobs in China

You heard it here first. Don't get why people haven't already spilled it.

Facilities teams all over about to get gutted, engineers and techs will all get replaced with green badges. Lots of badge flipping around Christmas.

Good luck running a factory without a facility team.

I lost my job at the hot chicken sandwich company today. They called it a “strategic restructure.” I called it getting canned from a place that sells spicy bird meat.

They pulled me into the “Cayenne Conference Room” — aka the breakroom — and told me my “passion” wasn’t a good fit. Translation: I ranked our worst customers on a whiteboard and started a petition for bigger sauce cups.

I packed my ranch packets, flipped the “open” sign to “closed,” and walked out smelling like ghost pepper and poor decisions.

Hot chicken? Sure. Hot mess? Absolutely

This is how I will get through staring at their empty desks.

70 staff member laid off in late Sept. a lot of them through email! Absurd

Is anything happening today?

Sep24 6am UTC - Sep25 6am UTC totals: 80 layoffs, 9 additions.
September totals (except Sep01): 5635 layoffs, and 825 additions.
Methodology and day-by-day breakdown is in comments.

I know a dev team in Pacific, which had the last day yesterday, but they are still in Slack and it is unclear why O stopped cutting access to some people. Maybe it was too easy to track layoffs. Therefore, these totals are the floor estimate.

Anyone have news to share about the like-li-hood of layoff after G2E finishing?
Please share any news. Thank you.

https://mishtalk.com/economics/seattle-reeling-over-tech-layoffs-especially-microsoft/

Is that even possible? These are the numbers sent from their communications, sound like support will be gone from Oracle soon. This is such a high number.

From a company that care so much of their customers lol