#employeerelations

Roche is currently undergoing a significant global restructuring of its Roche Digital Technology (RDT) organization (former Roche global IT). Under the leadership of Wafaa Mamili, the company is centralizing operations through a new technology hub in Hyderabad, India. While total headcount is projected to grow globally, this strategy involves substantial workforce reductions at key sites, including Basel, Mississauga, South San Francisco, Mannheim, Costa Rica and more.
These transitions, which also include the departure of high-level and high-performing specialists and long-term contributors, are expected to continue throughout 2026 in accordance with local labor regulations and social plans. It may no longer be a "great place to work" especially for IT specialists.

Many of us got an email today stating that we are to start evaluating AI responses and tagging cases so that we can give feedback as to why articles are not leading to resolutions.

It is being framed like AI is going to be a tool that helps us do our jobs better. It is very clear that we are training our replacements.

It would be wise for anyone in support to start coming up with a plan b.

https://www.thecannatareport.com/xerox-global-print-go-to-market-q2-2026/

Very bottom of the page. Looks like some elitist party of millionaires out of touch with their own workers.

Belk has resorted to hiring managers with no real skills or management power, it seems like they regurgitate what is said in emails or conference calls yet make no effort to follow up on any issues in the store. Many employees have complained that their store managers are lacking skills, knowledge, and motivation to successfully run their store, some sales team managers, merch team managers, leads, and key holders have voiced concern that they are the ones running the stores, yet the store manager is taking credit and being compensated for their hard work. The question is who is hiring these ineffective store managers ? and why? It’s of great concern when the leads, associates, and floor managers care more and know more about their store than the actual store manager.

I'm hearing the APAC teams are really struggling under the new leader. From all reports the previous "interim" chief was bad but the new guy and his posse are driving the culture into the ground. Anyone hearing the same?

T minus 41 days, then it’s 4 days a week and 8 hours a day in the office, no ifs, ands, or buts. The directive from above is that WF offers a very generous PTO policy. In Risk, if SM gets her way, 4 hours of PTO will only be considered as 4 hours worked in the office. I’m still hopeful that 4 hours of PTO will be recognized as a full day in the office. I plan to use 4 hours on Mondays and Fridays throughout the summer, every week in July and August.

I care about the work I do at Truist and genuinely value my team. That said, after several years in the same position without a clear path to the next step in my career, I’ve started to feel stalled. There hasn’t been an opportunity to grow into a new role or take on responsibilities that align with where I want to go professionally. At this stage in my career, advancement and development matter a great deal to me, and I’m beginning to question whether staying at Truist supports those goals.

If I do receive an offer elsewhere, is providing two weeks’ notice always the best approach? What are the potential consequences of resigning without notice—for example, informing my manager late on a Friday that I’m leaving effective immediately?

So… Friday was a hard day.

Just curious, honestly did anyone get a promo? Not much was disclosed on the process and frontline managers given no info. So did anyone actually get one and what criteria was there? Were they only given to people now in managerial roles?

Its time that White Collar jobs unionize before we are all laid off. People like Darren will stop at nothing to lay us all off. We need to join together to fight!

If you're able, get licensed and the FPQP designation. I know it seems intimidating but you know more than you think.

Tenured BOAs are being let go through teaming. Remember all that dust we kicked up about our pay? Yeah.

Be prepared.

Last week Verizon held a meeting with employee representatives of the European Works Council
Does anyone have any information about what was discussed?
So far no details have been released about what happened

Giant Eagle used to care about its people. Now we’re at the point where employees are treated no better than they are at Walmart. It’s genuinely sad to see how far this workplace has fallen when it comes to its workers. This leadership should be ashamed.

My boss micromanages so badly that I’m torn between begging him to let me do my job or laughing when he confidently (and wrongly) corrects things he has no clue about. He slows everything down and still acts like he’s right. Please tell me this isn’t just me.

It’s by far the worst experience I’ve had in my professional life. I’m in CWP, leadership is ineffectual, they do absolutely nothing but the bare minimum, just enough to keep their job. They won’t care about their teams, they don’t care about doing what’s right for the members , they just do the bare minimum to keep their job. It’s atrocious and shocking for a company of this size to allow leaders to behave the way they do, I don’t even feel like I have a manager or any sort of support system. I cannot wait to quit this nightmare of a company, The really sad part is I’m one of the few people that other job, follow the rules and the people that do whatever they want aren’t held accountable. It’s only a matter of time before a member takes legal action due to the irresponsibility of most of the staff.

Bumping from @2hr+1kd1d6bb6, well stated.

I wish skipping happy hour didn't make people think you're not a team player. I like my coworkers fine, but my evenings are for my actual life. There's this unspoken expectation to always be around. Is this just my team and my manager? Because I'm getting really tired of it and I wouldn't mind transferring to get away from it.

I tried bringing it up and got shot down immediately. That’s frustrating, because if compensation is off-limits, there’s no way to know who’s being underpaid, and I’m guessing it’s more common than people think.

The EWC meeting statement here:

https://rsuibmsegrate.altervista.org/20260122.pdf

Statement – Resource Action across the board,
mostly impacting Western-European countries
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After receiving a series of informal indications over the past weeks, the IBM EWC membership was
officially informed at today’s Extraordinary Meeting that a global Resource Action (RA) will indeed be
implemented for the fifteenth consecutive year. The current RA will impact around half of the
European countries. Even though this year’s reduction target is roughly double the size of 2025, IBM
senior management stated that the size and scope of this RA is limited and focused, as the overall
reduction of European staff is mid to high single digit.
As before, the IBM EWC cannot agree to the company’s qualification, because IBM has become a
significantly smaller organisation compared to five or ten years ago, especially in Europe. In this
context, the team observes that also lower reduction numbers have more critical impact than before,
most visibly in IBM’s European Support Functions. Carving out a few roles compared to limited local
staffing levels can lead to extremely high and impactful reduction percentages that easily go up to
20% or 30% and sometimes even to 50% or 100%.
Compared to 2025, the EWC observes that the current RA focusses on practically all parts of IBM’s
business in Europe and that IBM Technology, IBM Consulting and IBM Support Functions all count for
roughly one-third of the total reduction target. The overall business rationale relates especially to the
implementation of IBM’s enterprise productivity initiatives via automation and the use of AI at job role
level, the elimination of tasks, and shifting workloads to strategic locations. Looking into more detail,
the membership sees clear distinctions between various parts of IBM’s business in Europe.
Around 70% of the current reduction target in IBM Consulting is aimed at three large countries. For
at least four countries, IBM Consulting counts for more than 50% of the country’s total reduction
target. The IBM EWC concludes that these targets well exceed the number of colleagues temporarily
on the bench in most countries. The company is carving out productive mainline delivery employees,
aiming at concentrating the entire delivery effort in the Client Innovation Centers (CICs) to increase
profit margins. In this context, the membership is surprised that IBM senior management stated that
employees in these CICs might also be eligible of this RA.
IBM Technology has to execute a significant reduction too, especially in Sales, Software and TLS.
The IBM EWC can understand that the global implementation of the new Go-to-Market model with less
but more focused roles can lead to efficiencies. However, the membership regards Sales and Software
as core and fundamental elements to our strategic direction and ambition. If we truly want to become
a Software Company, the IBM EWC believes that current staffing levels should at least remain intact.
Efficiencies could support the extension of IBM’s reach and visibility in a highly competitive market,
instead of further reducing employment. IBM senior management explained that TLS is impacted by a
volume decline due to the outstanding quality of current IBM-technology. Products last longer and
there is less need for repair, the use of cloud solutions reinforces this trend. Combined with shifting
workloads to our TLS Center in Bulgaria, this causes redundancies.
In our Support Functions, IBM continues to shift more workloads from Western-European countries
to our International Delivery Centers (IDCs) around Europe. Support staff employees in these
countries should on average be prepared for higher single-digit reductions, especially in Finance &
Operations. In some larger European countries, Human Resources and Marketing & Communications
are impacted significantly as well. Shifting workloads is not new. However, the IBM EWC observes
that staffing levels in our European IDCs are also reduced at the same time, sometimes massively.
This is most visible in IBM’s Marketing & Communications mission in Bucharest and our Procurement
operation in Sofia, both locations face double digit reductions. Also in Bratislava our Q2C and Finance
missions are again in scope, with high single digit reduction targets.
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The membership does not understand nor support the carve out of jobs at country level and in our
IDCs at the same time. By experience we know that careful timing and readiness on both sides
before shifting workloads is critical to be successful, especially since local footprints have eroded.
Countries hardly have any critical mass left on-site and local support teams have been marginalised.
The IBM EWC believes that again pushing an early shift is not without risk to the quality and continuity
of daily operations and observes that repeated restructurings led to increased workload, both at
country level and in our centers, which negatively impacted morale and engagement of our colleagues.
The membership anticipates that this situation will further deteriorate after the current RA, as a
compelling and motivating vision with a clear future perspective continues to be absent for
employees working in Support Functions. The IBM EWC cannot accept that this group remains under
constant pressure because of their job role, knowing that adequate support is of critical importance to
enable the growth of IBM Technology and IBM Consulting. The membership calls again at IBM senior
management to be more attentive that colleagues working in Support Functions all over Europe are not
overloaded and have sufficient time to hand over and to take over workloads.
The IBM EWC concludes that IBM clearly disinvests from Europe, for example by co-locating work
from Europe back to Delivery Centers in the U.S. and partially Asia and North-Africa. The membership
has the clear impression that decisions regarding strategic locations are more and more ‘geopolitically
motivated’. IBM senior management was unable to clarify what strategic locations are identified for
the near future to consolidate some Support Functions and especially whether these locations are
inside or outside of Europe. The IBM EWC requests IBM senior management to invest substantial
budget in increasing the base salary of colleagues staying at IBM, thereby keeping morale and
engagement intact. This is key to boost our growth and support the transformation of our company.
The IBM EWC was informed at the meeting that IBM aims at maximising voluntary packages as
much as possible to ensure that employees in scope of this Resource Action can leave the company as
ambassadors. The membership requests IBM senior management to inform and instruct country
management accordingly. The IBM EWC understands that local implementations are guided by local
law and practice, however, at European level one consistent and uniform approach for all European
countries in scope of this RA should be discussed, outlined and agreed to ensure that IBM employees
all over the continent are treated fairly and equally, according to the same rules and principles. The
EWC membership requests IBM senior management to ensure that:

• first and foremost, subcontractor replacement is advertised and applied;
• scoping criteria are transparent and timely agreed and communicated, including fair objection
  procedures and periods;
• managers pro-actively coach their teams towards re- and up-skilling programs to allow for
  internal redeployment opportunities supported by IBM’s Business Driven Mobility;
• cross LoB job opportunities are pro-actively facilitated and supported;
• Bridge-to-Retirement programs and paid Leave of Absence/paid sabbaticals are offered;
• so called ‘domino solutions’ are actively promoted and supported;
• only voluntary programs and generous packages are offered, to allow IBMers to leave the
  company in a mutually agreed and good spirit;
• outplacement support is offered to all employees in scope on acceptance of an offer.
  The membership discussed the information and details provided about the size, scoping criteria and
  timelines for Europe. The current RA impacts only half of all EU-countries, 14 member states
  are exempted. The IBM EWC believes that the local circumstances in these 14 countries do not differ
  much from the specific business situation in the countries which are in-scope of the current RA. IBM
  senior management explained the company’s rationale to exclude them is based on business need,
  priority and affordability, and confirmed that as a consequence no restructuring will take place there.
  Based on the information provided at today’s meeting, the IBM EWC concludes that the company
  wants this restructuring to be implemented in this first quarter of 2026. The membership
  requests IBM senior management to ensure that all time required will be given to support the local
  information and consultation processes within the European countries in scope and to continue the
  dialogue on the current Resource Action at European level and to provide regular status updates.
  IBM European Works Council
  Paris, France – January 22, 2026

Has anyone heard anything regarding U.K. layoffs, RTO, pay-outs (similar to the U.S.)?
It's been very hush-hush abroad.

From my experience Chevron has NO keepers by the definition shared at the link below.

If you disagree please speak up and advise me on where to find a "keeper " among the cesspool of self serving supervision/ managers we are blessed with.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jwmba_when-your-manager-says-this-youve-got-a-share-7428287024773636096-rO6r?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAAn-ZlAB68ih04bqOWRtU6SN072zGx8h3RY

Curious to know if anyone ever got an "exit interview" with Intel HR before they left, either voluntary or involuntary?

In both cases, I never had an "exit interview" but I know others did get an exit interview. Is it a particular case an exit interview happens? Or Managers try to CYA when an employee leaves?

This is hands down the worst place I’ve ever worked for, and it’s not because of the job itself. The work is fine, but the way employees are treated is brutal and intentional. Management acts like paying people is some kind of personal insult. Everything here is designed to grind you down while pretending that’s just business as usual.

Any news on bonus or merits? Got a whole team asking here and ready to walk out unless they get proper pay. The last 2 to 3 years has been nauseous at best and running out of excuses. Lost 2 strong managers already to National and Sixt.

I just got a PIP. Given the current state of the company and the layoffs, would you think I will be axed at the end of the improvement period?

How many were let go yesterday?

• Meta denies plans for new performance-based layoffs amid online speculation.
• Meta previously considered annual job cuts based on performance to manage low performers.
• Meta recently cut 10% of its Reality Labs division, affecting over 1,000 employees.

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-says-no-performance-related-layoffs-planned-2026-2

How are you all so mentally strong to take the continuous layoffs, relocate states for RTO and adapt to so many life changes?

It totally amazes me what T employees go through every day and still try to put everything aside and focus on work.

I lost 3 colleagues today and sick to stomach returning to ghosted work location.

May be I am getting too old for this, but ever since I joined T, I have seen people in my team go every year.

It seems like D&S has been dissolved. What is going on with our talent management organization?

Are they just going to keep slashing our benefits bit by bit until people get fed up and quit? It's a cost-effective way to reduce staff without the bad press of mass layoffs. It feels calculated and cruel.

in the AHM he talked about the stock price and talked about how QC won't ever get you instant gratification. What the f is he talking about? It's been 5 years and the stock hasn't moved. Sure, it's oscillated up and down, but if we don't have ESPP or RSUs to sell it's useless.

I am going to start emailing the board to point them to all the anonymous threads showing the employees hate this leadership.

Cargill will close its Milwaukee ground beef facility. This decision impacts 221 employees. The plant will wind down production in April and fully close in May. Local organizations are mobilizing to support the displaced workers. Jobs Work MKE and Employ Milwaukee are offering free career workshops.

https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-county/cargill-layoffs-prompt-milwaukee-workforce-organizations-to-mobilize-support-for-221-workers

Just popped in and was surprised to not see a thread on the announcement this week. It's creating gossip for sure, would like to hear from people who feel they can speak freely though. I don't have dealings with them directly, but based on the comments I've seen in here, that seems to be a good thing. Do people think this will improve the culture? Are people relieved or worried what could come after this?

Just a 1% raise after the executives were boasting about how great of a year we had. They are probably thinking we should be grateful we got a raise at all. Were are all of the profits going??? Oh yeah to the executives who don’t actually do anything, while us individual contributors who do the real work get literal pennies compared to them

Does anyone know the logic behind who was determined to be JE’d?

Over 800 people are being laid off with 60 days to figure it out.

I have never in all my life listened to as much garbage or side stepping than covered in today's town hall. So many people unhappy. What really annoys me is that AB stood up and talked complete garbage and did not answer any of the job title or other HR queries at all. It is very clear a large portion of employees are unhappy, and guess what Pearson really do not care. Time to jump from this sinking and toxic ship.

Our tone deaf Chro feels enough time has passed to post with a lame post it again. Dan - please fire her!!! The one before during Covid was a million times better.

But younger people should definitely not waste any more of their time. There's no future at this company, and even if there were, all of you could do better somewhere else.

While the initial reaction may seem positive, looks like investors are wondering why TD pays so much for marketing execs and brand campaigns that are incongruent with reality. TD is not More Human, in fact, internally it is less human than ever.