#discussion

How do folks feel about AI-DLC?

Seems like many of my go to resources adjacent to my account team has been retiring this week. What's going on?

And was on an approved leave of absence is that legal has anyone ever heard this happened before ?

I'm hoping to hear from HR professionals, former managers, or anyone who has participated in workforce reduction decisions.
Could you walk me through how a typical layoff selection process works behind the scenes at WF?
For example, if a department has 12 employees and leadership has determined that 6 positions must be eliminated due to restructuring, how is it decided which 6 employees are selected?
Some questions I'm particularly interested in are:
Who typically initiates the process and determines the layoff population?

Does the direct manager make the initial recommendations, or are employees ranked collaboratively by multiple leaders?

Who participates in calibration discussions? Are senior leaders, HR Business Partners, Legal, Employee Relations involved?

If a ranking matrix is used, who develops the evaluation criteria, and how much discretion does managers have when assigning ratings?
How are subjective factors, such as leadership potential, business impact, or future fit, evaluated and documented?

What level of evidence is expected to support a manager's ranking of each employee?

Who has final approval authority before layoff decisions are communicated?

Are decisions ever revisited if HR or Legal identifies inconsistencies or potential discrimination risks?

What documentation is typically created during the process, and how long is it retained?

Are managers instructed to avoid considering employees who are on protected leave (such as FMLA), have recently requested accommodations, or have recently filed internal complaints? If those employees are included in the layoff population, what additional review or documentation is typically required?

From your experience, what parts of the process are most heavily scrutinized if a layoff decision is later challenged in litigation or investigated by the EEOC?

I'm interested in understanding both the formal process and how it actually works in practice. If you've personally participated in these discussions, I'd appreciate any insight into who influences the decisions, what documentation is reviewed, and where the greatest amount of discretion typically exists.

Put your thoughts here.

So....did they say anything about it? Didnt think so....It will never be spoken of again like it was never under any consideration. Funny that, isn't it?

So if you are scheduled meeting next week , you are ok ?

Well, what are people hearing how the year ended?

Anyone else no longer able to see the Fannie Mae “bowls” on Fishbowl and Glassdoor? It now says they don’t exist. They were active prior to 10 am yesterday.

Curious to see what restructuring has occurred. Please share and let us know market.

This waiting for Godot sh-t is for the birds!

Speculations

How is the mood in the office?

Next quarter should be interesting when that nonsense rolls away.

TLDW, any new nuggets of insight?

https://www.wral.com/business/technology/jim-goodnight-sas-interview-july-2026/

Dear HR please stop commenting each post here . Found something more meaningful to do .

Is this real? In what universe does Medtronic think that coremap will take share from carto. the ceo of that company is a walking scam artist. this company is truly made up of some id--ts

Another false alarm?

Anyone hear of anything lately? Been too quiet around the campus.

I know the hot topics are the VSP and layoffs, but does anyone know what the restructuring will look like.

Any truth to this?

Is EchoStar really doing a Just Kidding, Come Back tactic to some?

Did they finally realize that what they did pretty much caused disaster recovery to have to happen?

Of invited back, would you come back? If you refuse, would they take away severance?

The layoff news seems to be spreading rapidly now, it'd be great if we could all spam the All Hands meeting chat asking about the layoffs in the news opposed to asking about coffee.

Any thoughts on authorization departments? Anyone recieved later dates then May 2027?

Let’s light JR up on this call today. Doubt we get truthful answers, but would be fun to watch her squirm.

Any CHC people still here or has all been laid off?

My VSP was accepted with a separation date of 12/11/2026. While that does give me more time to look for other employment, I feel it also gives my PL time to find a reason to fire me. Seems like the ones who got the 9/4 would have been laid off involuntary anyways and those of us with a further date may have been safe, but now we run the risk of retaliation because management knows when we are leaving.

I’m not within the merch org that was called for RTO back in April but wondering if there’s another planned RTO for all remaining remote workers at some point. Has anyone heard anything?

https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/remediation-work-banks

What are y'all thoughts on this? Some companies have started doing this recently and it got me thinking about TRP.

Why does Uncon have such terrible reputation?

Why no mass layoffs yet ?

What happened to the other BU's that were sold off? Did all employees get laid off?
To be sold off seems like a good thing at this point, or is that just wishful thinking?

I skipped the last blow hard circlej--kAnyone care to give a short autopsy?

Just a thought… but Dan made a specific comment about 88% of the company is “using” AI, and we should encourage the other 12% blah blah…..

Anyone else thinking that metric will be used against us for the next round of layoffs? Checking to see how much we use AI?

A lot of struggle these days in the IBM Expert Labs organization. Work is less and less every year, it does not seem like they will survive another year.

Comments?