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Relocation timing

Got the notice that i have to relocate but the distance so i am a qualifying event which contains displacement/severance. Question is when i decline continued employment about how long does it take to get the displacement letter from the time i am suppose to report to the new location?


Retiring after displacement

Displacement package says we can contact them after the 60 day notice period and have term code changed to retirement. Has anyone here done that and does it affect the severance payout and insurance benefits and rates during the severance period? Not wanting to sc--w this up.


Florence Job Fair Aids Displaced Dal-tile Workers

Hundreds of former Dal-tile employees are seeking new employment following the abrupt closure of their plant. The city of Florence, in collaboration with the Shoals Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Authority, organized a job fair to assist these workers. Local businesses with open positions were present to connect with the affected individuals. The event provided a crucial opportunity for displaced workers to explore new career paths. This initiative aims to mitigate the impact of the sudden plant shutdown on the local workforce.

Florence, AL

https://www.waff.com/2026/10/22/dal-tile-workers-pack-job-fair-after-sudden-layoffs/


BB are Sellouts

Companies that replace American workers with cheaper labor in India are prioritizing profits over people, undermining the livelihoods of hardworking families and contributing to the decline of the American middle class. This practice not only exploits foreign workers but also betrays the trust of American employees who deserve fair opportunities.


Please DWW retire before the empire crumbles

And what’s the bets the next CEO js a downstreamer or Dan the Man who knows nothing about the business. Brother Darren and his merry man have cut the ba--s off the upstreamers. He needs to leave soon before he watches his empire crumble with the constant cost cutting and all of the real talent being displaced by India


Bonus after displacement?

The end of my displacement period is after September 30. As I understand it, I am "eligible" for my bonus. There is nothing in the severance agreement regarding bonuses and I'm told I need to discuss any potential bonus with my manager. Ideally, this information would be in the agreement I'm signing. I'm wondering if anyone has received a bonus in a situation like this or if anyone knows if WF is open to changing the agreement.


Cognizant investigation

We all know FIS is moving some U.S. employees to Cognizant rather than directly laying them off, with those employees becoming Cognizant employees and continuing to perform work previously done for FIS. This is significant because Cognizant is currently under federal scrutiny involving H-1B visas and the potential displacement of American workers. There is currently no public evidence that FIS itself has been named as a target of that investigation. However, if U.S. employees are transferred to Cognizant and their jobs are subsequently performed by lower-cost foreign workers, that arrangement could potentially attract the attention of federal investigators. Outsourcing itself is not illegal; the key issue is whether the arrangement involves violations of H-1B or other worker-protection laws.


Lump sum severance payout question

Reading thru the displacement paperwork, it seems that we cannot submit the form to request a lump sum severance payout until you are no longer a WF employee (the day after your 60-day non working period ends). Is that true? Anyone know how long after submitting for lump sum severance payment you actually get this money? The displacement paperwork alludes that it can take another two months on top of already waiting the initial 60-days (non working period).


Sr Managers in non-hub still here

I know of a few sr managers who are still here, in non-hub locations, while others have already either received their notices or been displaced. Portland, OR is one of them. Corporate Risk/FCRM. Is it preferential treatment? Exception made? How can someone Sr be spared while others are already gone?


We Must Act Now Letter.

We Must Act Now
Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy

AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years.
This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities such as major gains in living standards.

Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.

Signatories

Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford University

Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto

Anton Korinek, University of Virginia and Anthropic

Tom Cunningham, METR

Michael Spence, New York University*

Daron Acemoglu, MIT*

Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge

Chad Jones, Stanford University

David Autor, MIT

Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University*

Niall Ferguson, Stanford University

Jason Furman, Harvard University

Simon Johnson, MIT*

Christopher A. Pissarides, London School of Economics*

Paul Milgrom, Stanford University*

George Akerlof, Georgetown University and University of California, Berkeley*

Philippe Aghion, INSEAD*

Dan Hendrycks, Center for AI Safety

Eric Schmidt, Former CEO of Google

Peter Howitt, Brown University*

Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University*

Bengt Holmstrom, MIT*

Alvin Roth, Stanford University*

Michael Kremer, University of Chicago*

Roger B. Myerson, University of Chicago*

Paul Krugman, Graduate Center of the City University of New York*

Ben Bernanke, Brookings Institution*

Robert J. Shiller, Yale University*

Pascual Restrepo, Yale University

Jaan Tallinn, University of Cambridge

Daniel Susskind, Gresham College

Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila

Gillian Hadfield, Johns Hopkins University

Raffaella Sadun, Harvard Business School

Tyler Cowen, George Mason University

Reid Hoffman, Greylock

Wojciech Zaremba, OpenAI Foundation

David J. Deming, Harvard University

Jack Clark, Anthropic

Ronnie Chatterji, OpenAI

Dean Ball, OpenAI

Jeff Dean, Google

Joshua Gans, University of Toronto

Abhishek Nagaraj, University of California, Berkeley

Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University

Peter McCrory, Anthropic

Alex Imas, University of Chicago

Stephanie Bell, Partnership on AI

Rebecca Finlay, Partnership on AI

Gina Raimondo, RAISE US

Yann LeCun, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs

John McHale, University of Galway

Oskar Nordström Skans, Uppsala University

Ebehi Iyoha, Harvard Business School

Kevin Bryan, University of Toronto

Judy Chevalier, Yale University

Shannon Liu, University of Toronto

Shai Bernstein, Harvard Business School

Alexander Oettl, Emory University

Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University

Scott Stern, MIT

Hong Luo, University of Toronto

Amir Sariri, Purdue University

John List, University of Chicago

Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School

Ben Weidmann, University College London

Kristina McElheran, University of Toronto

Basil Halperin, University of Virginia

Christian Catalini, MIT

Rembrand Koning, Harvard Business School

Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia

Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto

Annie Liang, Northwestern University

Anders Humlum, University of Chicago

Jonathan Colmer, University of Virginia

Maria del Rio-Chanona, University College London

Janice Stein, University of Toronto

David Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich

Frank Neffke, Complexity Science Hub

Eva Vivalt, University of Toronto

Doh-Shin Jeon, Toulouse School of Economics

Adam Posen, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Jakub Growiec, SGH Warsaw School of Economics

David Hémous, University of Zurich

Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich

Klaus Prettner, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Donghyun Suh, Bank of Korea

Benjamin Moll, London School of Economics

Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, University of Vienna

Olivier Blanchard, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Emilio Calvano, LUISS University of Rome

John Van Reenen, London School of Economics

Maryam Farboodi, Cornell University

Sholto Douglas, Anthropic

John Schulman, Thinking Machines

Martin Beraja, University of California, Berkeley

John Fernald, INSEAD

Boaz Barak, Harvard University and OpenAI

Arnaud Costinot, MIT

Noam Brown, OpenAI

Anna Salomons, Tilburg University and Utrecht University

Olivier Jeanne, Johns Hopkins University

Neil Thompson, MIT

Simone Daniotti, Utrecht University

Jerry Yang, AME Cloud Ventures

Leonardo Gambacorta, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Daniel Kokotajlo, AI Futures Project

Michiel Bakker, MIT and Google DeepMind

Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University

Giacomo Calzolari, European University Institute

Jeff Wilke, Re:Build Manufacturing

Jacques Crémer, Toulouse School of Economics

Danny Yagan, University of California, Berkeley

Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Max Tegmark, MIT

Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures

Benjamin Shiller, Brandeis University

Oren Etzioni, University of Washington

Martin Ford

Oded Galor, Brown University

Sarah Friar, OpenAI

Marc L. Busch, Georgetown University

Walid Hejazi, University of Toronto

Dilip Soman, University of Toronto

John Danaher, University of Galway

Thomas Astebro, HEC Paris

Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University

Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto

Alfonso Gambardella, Bocconi University

Reza Satchu, Harvard Business School

Alex Whalley, University of Calgary

Tom Davidson, Forethought Center for AI Strategy

Laurina Zhang, Boston University

Andrew Scott, University of Oxford

Jean-Etienne de Bettignies, Queen's University

Sam Manning, GovAI

Joel Blit, University of Waterloo

Sampsa Samila, IESE Business School

Roshni Raveendhran, University of Virginia

Liz Lyons, University of California, San Diego

Ramana Nanda, Imperial College London

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago

Arnaldo Camuffo, Bocconi University

Maxim Massenkoff, Anthropic

Petra Moser, New York University

Shivaji Sondhi, University of Oxford and Princeton University

Danny Buerkli, Windfall Trust

Carles Boix, Princeton University

Anna Yelizarova, Windfall Trust

Ken Ono, Axiom Math and University of Virginia

Isaiah Andrews, MIT

Anders Sandberg, University of Oxford

Martin Chorzempa, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Gita Gopinath, Harvard University

Zoë Hitzig, Anthropic

Lawrence Katz, Harvard University

Nathan Wilmers, Anthropic

Sebastian Becker, HEC Paris

Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University

Sebastian Mallaby, Council on Foreign Relations

Adrian Brown, Windfall Trust

Sonia Sennik, Creative Destruction Lab

Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University

Johannes Hermle, Anthropic

Ashesh Rambachan, MIT

Brian Jabarian, Carnegie Mellon University

Lukas Althoff, Stanford University

Soumitra Shukla, Harvard Business School

Andrey Fradkin, Boston University

Andrew Koh, Columbia University

Prasanna Tambe, University of Pennsylvania

Cheryl Wu, Yale University

Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures

Gigi Danziger, Eutopia

Chris Tonetti, Stanford University

Justin Bullock, Americans for Responsible Innovation

Bryan Seegmiller, Northwestern University

Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan

Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University

Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan

Eva Lyubich, Anthropic

Chrishan Thuraisingham

Szymon Sacher, Anthropic

Thomas Houlden, Columbia University

Ben Golub, Northwestern University

Carlos J. Serrano, HEC Paris

Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto

William Strange, University of Toronto

Jen Baggs, University of Victoria

Victor Aguirregabiria, University of Toronto

Melissa Lynne Dell, Harvard University

Jasmine Sun

Rob Reich, Stanford University

James Landay, Stanford University

Anousheh Ansari, XPRIZE Foundation

Fiona Chen, Harvard University

Michael Nayak, XPRIZE Foundation

George Williamson, The Alan Turing Institute

Michael Chui, McKinsey

Gabriel Unger, Stanford University

Katya Klinova

Parker Whitfill, METR

Arvind Karunakaran, Stanford University

Georgios Petropoulos, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business

José Ramón Enríquez, Stanford University

Christos Makridis, Arizona State University

Luca Vendraminelli, Stanford University

Alvin Wang Graylin, Stanford University

Sophia Kazinnik, Stanford University

Christina Langer, Stanford University

Riitta Katila, Stanford University

Lynn Wu, University of Pennsylvania

Matt Beane, University of California, Santa Barbara

David Nguyen, Stanford University

Avinash Collis, Carnegie Mellon University

Pamela Mishkin, Stanford University

Andy Haupt, Stanford University

Neale Mahoney, Stanford University

Robb Willer, Stanford University

Sinan Aral, MIT

Thomas W. Malone, MIT

Wajeeha Ahmad, Stanford University

Diyi Yang, Stanford University

Mary MacLennan

Wang Jin, Chapman University

Arjun Ramani, MIT

Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research

J. Frank Li, University of British Columbia

Jeremy Howard, fast.ai

Matt Gentzkow, Stanford University

Bharat Chandar, Stanford University

Jiaxin Pei, Stanford University

Sarah Bana, Chapman University

Ramiz Razzak

Molly Kinder, Breakwater Initiative

Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University

Laura Tyson, University of California, Berkeley

Tristan Harris, Center for Humane Technology

Christie Ko, Stanford University

Susan Young, Stanford University

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Anyone else told they were moved to next wave, again

Remote employee, I was called into another meeting and presented with “great news” that where I once was going to be let go at the end of the 3rd quarter 2026, I am now in the next wave which will be Q1 2027

This is probably the forth or the fifth time over 5-6 years I had been told to prepare for displacement only have it explained, that I am being rewarded in some way because my job has been preserved for another few months.

I was long overdue for a promotion which they have now flat out told me will not happen because I am going to be displaced. So I am doing the same job function if not more work than people titled more senior than me and being paid less.

I feel like a contractor, trapped and just wished they would let me go instead of thinking that kicking the can down the road every six months should somehow make me feel inspired.


And here come the displacements

When the strategy is "do more with less," somehow it's always the people doing the work who end up doing less... because they no longer have a job.
Another round of collections and IT displacements. The folks who kept systems running, helped customers, solved problems, and cleaned up the messes are thanked with a meeting and a severance packet.
Nothing says "valuing people" quite like calling layoffs a "business transformation."
Wishing everyone impacted the best. Companies can replace positions on an org chart, but they don't replace the experience, dedication, and relationships those employees built.


August 4th or August 18th

Managers in SLC, UT have stated that either August 4th or the 18th will be the day for a big displacement, especiallyin the QA department. Does anyone have any solid/confirmed information on this information?

One manager said for certain it would be the 4th. But can they know for sure and able to truly provide such information about displacement dates?


When will Walmart start their foreign worker H1B hiring again?

Months ago we heard Walmart planned 3000+ H1B hires. Then, the Trump administration attached a $100,000 fee for bringing in a foreign H1B employee to replace a US based associate. After that, Walmart walked back their H1B plans.

Now, a federal judge has ruled the fee is illegal. Does that mean we’ll see Walmart dump a ton more US based associates and bring in foreign H1B workers to take those jobs? If I had to guess, I’d say, yes- they probably will.


Why would a displaced employee want to accept severance as a lump sum vs. regular payments?

Are there tax implications by choosing one over the other? Does that affect how you can apply for unemployment? Can’t understand why someone wouldn’t just want to get the entire severance amount in one large deposit. Thanks.


IowaWorks Helps Displaced Workers

IowaWorks provides assistance to workers. These workers were affected by recent layoffs. Officials say help includes resume support. They also offer training opportunities. Workers can find new job opportunities.

https://www.weareiowa.com/video/news/state/iowaworks-provides-resources-unemployment-assistance-to-workers-after-layoffs/524-3e6ba134-4776-45d8-9aed-3a8fcfa64d9d


Can’t you just go back to your previous team?

I have been moved around to multiple teams since COVID (same job title and same pay, though). It appears our team will probably be laid off by this next Tuesday after payday as the work we did is being handled by original team that should have been working the cases anyway., but my question is, has anyone had success convincing HR to let you go back to your previous team vs. being displaced? I mean, it’s not my fault I am on the team that I am on. I was just flexible and adaptable but I would really like to go back to one of my previous teams rather than being laid off.


PTO Payout & Final Regular Pay

Just a note for those confused by the info provided in the Displacement Packet regarding the timing...

PTO and Final Paycheck for me were just deposited in my bank account on the last day of my 60-day non-working period. Thought it would be next week, but no. Submitting my Lump Sum request tomorrow (1st day of my "free agency"). I'll let you know how long that takes to process.

Worked in Tech...Cybersecurity.


Governor Newsom Orders AI Workforce Impact Study

Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order last month. This order directs state agencies to study AI's impact on work. California aims to prepare its workforce for potential disruption. Data collection and employment trend monitoring are underway. The ultimate effects of AI on jobs remain unknown.

San Diego, California

https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2026/06/19/california-ai-workforce-displacement-newsom-order-employment-data-worker-safeguards