#employees

Totally 3680 employees have to go, 73% are G12+, including 22 VPs, 72% LR will be done in US.

https://youtube.com/shorts/rsy5dCqzabY?si=8jOpJRMT4gmoGz96

This speaks to the cesspool that is Norwalk as a location & Client Solutions as a department. No wonder they axed that whole team in Norwalk!

https://www.hcamag.com/us/specialization/employment-law/factset-fired-black-consultant-one-day-after-fmla-request-suit-alleges/574956

I hope she gets every penny she sues for

When is the current employee survey going to start? Do you complete? Does your boss require you to take it even those it’s supposed to be anonymous?

I mean, this site is a gold mine for the management. I am assuming they care about what's in the employee's head (and I might as well be very wrong) - reading this board paints that picture fairly well. Figure out what main themes on layoff.com and measure engagement, do the same thing with LinkedIn. If you were to average the two that would give you a much better picture about what's going on on the ground. The board should mandate execs to do this instead of fake survey's that are massaged to the Nth degree. Food for thought.

Please raise your hand.

Working from home gave us flexibility that so many of us repaid by being available at all times. That's about to be gone. No more working after hours, no more responding to late mails, no more giving extra. If we’re back in the office, we’re working office hours. That’s it.

Employment is an at-will state (except for Montana).

The Employer or Employee can terminate Employment at any time.

Have never seen it happen so much as here

Close to thirty years, this was what gave me my sanity back! Tired of lazy people that don’t do their job , or not having people at all, not to mention 12 to 15 hour days because of that. Upper management is so disconnected they don’t even know how to do their job it’s pass the buck or I don’t know or just a lack of critical information, when this came about, I did not think twice. Because if you think it’s going to change, I don’t see how that’s possible. When I started with this company It was actually a great place to work, they lost their way and they can’t find themselves still!

Lazy, arrogant, uneducated, entitled, useless TRASH do not deserve a job here or anywhere

Has anyone heard of what happened?
https://x.com/i/status/2049952933144563840

I thought moon lighting was against the bofa politics.

The Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees will meet next week. Trustees are set to consider approving significant employee layoffs. These proposed reductions include certificated and classified positions. The board will also review new union contract agreements. These agreements propose salary increases and a one-time bonus for employees.

Sonoma, California

https://www.sonomanews.com/2026/04/30/votes-on-layoffs-union-contracts-on-sonoma-valley-unified-board-agenda/

Or are they stuck in their ivory tower, ignoring not just the voice of consumers but their own employees too?

I did no work for a year and no one noticed

• What my corporate experiment taught me about hard work, perceived performance and the path of least resistance...
  Leyla Kazim, Mar 11, 2026

  https://leylakazim.substack.com/p/i-did-no-work-for-a-year

Working hard is keeping you poor in everything that actually matters.

You spend most of your day slumped at a desk pushing emails and having meetings about meetings. None of it is about anything you care about.

The activities that are meaningful to you – things that bring you joy, creating and making, spending time with loved ones – are forced into the margins of your life.

Which is approximately pre 7am and post 8pm on a weekday, plus the meagre pickings left over from a 48 hour weekend, once you’ve done the chores, called family, met the demands of those who depend on you, and slept.

Time warps in an office, in both directions.

Days full of bitty bittiness - jumping from one task to another - are over before you’ve achieved anything. Flow states and deep work are things you haven’t experienced for years.

Or, the minutes stretch into hours and you wonder how it can possibly only be half past three when you’ve been sitting in that chair for what feels like an eternity. And you still need to factor in the commute home.

There is no day of the week that is not preceded or followed by a day back in the office.

Just when you feel like your mind, body and spirit is coming back to you - right around Sunday afternoon - you realise it all starts again tomorrow morning.

And you’ve barely had a chance to put a wash on.

I knew this life, intimately
For nearly a decade, I was a London corporate worker with the shiny BMW on the driveway, spending sunny days indoors staring at a computer screen surrounded by various iterations of plastic.

I developed a nagging suspicion that my role was irrelevant and futile, so I decided to conduct an experiment: I resolved to stop doing any work.

Half an hour before my weekly one-to-ones, I’d spend 15 minutes knocking up a page of something, sending a couple of emails, delivering my updates in a convincing tone.

‘I’m making great progress... the stakeholders are on board…’

My manager would nod.

‘That all sounds great! Carry on.’

What I actually spent my time doing? Meticulously planning ten months of travel on a spreadsheet.

I did no work for an entire year. The experiment ended not because anyone exposed my idling, but because I finally left.

My theory had been proven: my job was a farce. Which meant a big portion of my life was too.

But it wasn’t an entirely wasted year, because the experiment taught me a valuable lesson about the nature of modern work:

Modern work is a game, a theatre performance.

Once you understand the core rule – that a performance of perceived effort matters more than actual output – everything changes.

And why would you want to play the game in the first place?

Because winning means spending more time on things that actually make you feel alive.

Below are the 6 steps to win at The Game of Modern Work.

But before we dive in, let me be clear about something.

The purpose of this piece isn’t to make you feel bad about having a bullsh-t job, if that’s where you find yourself.

That’s not my objective.

My objective is to help you:

realise your situation

see it as an untapped opportunity

Perhaps you’ve been dutifully trying to fill your time at your desk with more tasks because you’re being paid for it, so you feel like you should be doing more.

What I’m saying is: reframe the whole situation.

Don’t try to find more things to do. Don’t try to make your existing tasks fill the entire week.

Go in the opposite direction.

Do only what’s required. So it well, do it fast, and spend the rest of your time on your own stuff.

This is the first step in engineering change - it starts with your mindset and how you view the situation.

See it as an opportunity, not something to ignore or pretend isn’t your reality.

1. Admit your job is bullsh-t
   The first step of affecting any situation for a more positive outcome is becoming aware of the situation in the first place.

The late anthropologist David Graeber coined the term ‘bullsh-t job’ in his 2013 essay that went viral with over 1 million views.

Graeber’s definition of a bullsh-t job:

‘…a job that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence, even though they’re obliged to pretend otherwise.’

These aren’t nurses, teachers, or refuse workers doing essential work.

They’re HR consultants, corporate lawyers, administrators, marketing coordinators – roles where if the position were eliminated tomorrow, it would make no discernible difference in the world.

I think some people have a deep-down sense that their job fits this description, but they don’t want to admit it.

Totally understandable.

Because all sorts of existential questions come up when you do, like: what have I just spent the past 20 years of my life actually doing?

But that doesn’t mean the topic can be avoided.

The alternative is continuing to pretend from a place of ignorance. Whereas what you want to do is still pretend, but from a place of knowledge.

Now the situation has tipped in your favour.

If you’re worried you’re the only one who thinks this about their work, you most definitely are not.

A YouGov poll found 37% of British workers thought their jobs didn’t contribute meaningfully to the world. Graeber estimated 20-50% of all jobs are ‘bullsh-t jobs’.

Apply the test: if your job were eliminated tomorrow, would anyone notice or care?

If not, acknowledge it. Own it.

There’s no shame – and everything becomes easier after the initial discomfort.

1. Understand the rules of play
   Once you’ve accepted your job has no purpose, understand that this knowledge means you’ve now entered the game.

Which is a good thing, because games have winners and losers.

And games also have rules. If you know the rules, you’re far more likely to win.

Winning, in this case, means spending less of your precious and finite time on this glorious planet doing pointless busy work and more of it on things that bring you joy, help you grow, or benefit your community.

The main game rule is this:

Spend as little time as possible meeting your contracted deliverables while still doing them to a competent level.

Do this by increasing your efficiency.

Complete all your contractual tasks at the start of the week when you’re most rested – knock them out quickly and well.

Then — without guilt — spend the rest of the time on your own stuff.

Your perceived performance stays high because you’ve completed what was asked of you. But do not go above and beyond. There is no sense and no reward in handing over more of yourself than is requested.

Do what’s required, do it well, and let your superiors believe it took the full allocated time – even if it only took you 1/20th of it.

Think of a parallel system, the education system.

Many students learn how to pass exams more than they learn the actual content in a course. I recall memorising a physics formula at university I understood absolutely nothing about, simply because I knew it would appear in the exam.

I passed.

The game rewards performers, not hard workers.

Nurses and teachers work extremely hard and are undervalued. And yet office workers who understand perceived performance, but in reality produce less meaningful output, get the higher salaries.

1. Put on a good performance
   What does performing look like? It’s theatre. You’re acting the role of believing your job is important and that you think everyone else’s is too.

Your objective is simple: make your line manager feel like they don’t even have to think about you because you’re just getting on with stuff. You want to make their lives as easy as possible.

This is key.

If they believe you’re working on whatever project they think you’re working on, and you support this with evidence of having met the deliverables, they’ll most likely be relieved they can just let you get on with it.

Figure out what it is they need to see to relax.

A well-prepared set of notes? A 6-page PowerPoint about a conference you attended? Whatever it is that makes them think ‘brilliant, John Smith is working great on their own, I don’t have to check in’ — deliver that.

You want them to report to their own manager that you’re meeting all your deliverables without them having to worry.

Confidence is key. Looking busy is the universal language in offices; use this to your advantage.

A spreadsheet is a great ruse – I planned ten months of travel on one mammoth spreadsheet and everyone thought it was work-related. Leave a paper trail: send a few emails during the week to show you’ve reached out to people.

As long as you look busy and make your line manager’s life easier, you’re winning.

1. Tactical slacking (reclaim the rest of your time)
   Now you’ve completed your deliverables efficiently and your manager thinks you’re working away diligently - what do you actually do with all that reclaimed time?

It’s your duty as a living and breathing human being to use this time well.

And by that I mean spend it on things that bring you joy, help you feel fulfilled, make you feel like you’ve actually done something meaningful with your 7-8 hours.

Perhaps you’ve helped someone else, grown personally, learned a new skill, done research on something that matters to you.

I have a friend with a remote bullsh-t job who coaches football during work hours because that’s his passion. An airport kiosk worker I met was learning a new language on their computer between the rare customers. I had my travel spreadsheet behemoth.

If you’re office-based surrounded by others, your activities need to work at a computer. If you’re remote, you have more freedom - physical projects, skill-building, anything.

Use this time to figure out an exit strategy if you want one. Research starting a business or finding a different role. Work on creative projects — reading, writing, learning.

Some people wouldn’t know how to spend tomorrow if given it off work. This lack of meaning is the greatest global epidemic no one is talking about; one for another essay.

But it’s also exactly why you need this reclaimed time — to finally discover what ignites you.

1. Follow nature’s example of the path of least resistance
   I’m a firm believer that life shouldn’t feel that hard. When it does, it’s often because we’re pushing against the natural flow of things rather than letting go and aligning with what actually wants to happen.

Nature never wastes energy. It does exactly what’s needed, nothing more.

Water always finds the easiest route back to the sea — it doesn’t force itself uphill. If you have a fire approaching both a eucalyptus tree and a cork oak, the eucalyptus ignites because that’s the path of least resistance. Nature doesn’t waste energy trying to force the cork oak to burn.

Think about your garden.

You can spend enormous energy coddling high-maintenance plants that need constant attention, or you can welcome the weeds — plants that flourish with zero intervention.

Many are edible, medicinal, beautiful. And they’re highly efficient.

The thing you need to remember is you are a part of Nature. You might not yet know your purpose in life, but one thing is for certain: it isn’t to have meetings, pay off debts, then die.

Don’t waste energy on work that resists your soul.

Your soul knows this work is futile. The natural state is to do the minimum needed for survival (your deliverables) and let the rest of your energy flow where it actually wants to go, towards what makes you come alive.

That’s not cheating the system. That’s being intelligent enough to follow how the universe actually works.

‘But isn’t this deceitful?’
I can hear some of you objecting: isn’t it deceitful to let your employer pay you for doing stuff that has nothing to do with their work?

Here’s my response: if you went to your line manager tomorrow and said ‘Hey there Graham! I’ve completed everything you’ve given me in a tenth of the time, do you have any more work for me?’ - you’d stress them out.

The truth is, most of the time they won’t have anything else for you to do. You might think you’re helping, but you’re actually making their lives more difficult.

Now they’re obliged to figure out what the he-l else to do with you.

If they can’t, the worst-case scenario is you’re forcing them to acknowledge that your role is meaningless - which you already know, but they likely don’t want to lay you off.

Too much admin.

You’ve given them the very difficult task of having to justify your role even though you’ve just proven you completed it in a fraction of the time.

So if you’re considering other people’s feelings and lives, it’s for everyone’s benefit if you continue with the charade and keep playing the role. It’s not deceitful for them to be paying you when you’re not working on their stuff.

You’re actually helping the system work.

It’s not your fault if you’re efficient. It’s not your fault if the role shouldn’t actually exist.

‘But I’m drowning in work’
Some of you aren’t exactly sitting idle in your bullsh-t job — you’re doing the work of three people because enlightened colleagues keep quitting, aren’t being replaced and you’re absorbing their tasks.

You’re working evenings and weekends and spending less time with your family, simply to meet the demands of the extra bullsh-t.

This is a different problem: lots of busy work - meetings about meetings, firefighting, sending emails - but nothing of real substance or meaning.

It feels like a lot of work, but you’re not actually achieving anything.

If this is you, the efficiency principles still apply where possible.

But honestly, this might be your sign that it’s time to get the he-l out.

A bullsh-t job with capacity to slack is one thing. A bullsh-t job that’s stealing your life and health? That’s unsustainable.

This essay is for those of you with hours to fill at a desk, not those drowning. If you’re drowning, that’s a different conversation entirely.

Your focus needs to be an exit strategy.

Final thoughts
The key to surviving an unfulfilling job (other than leaving it) isn’t working harder - it’s understanding that modern work is just a game.

Once you know the core rule - that perceived performance is valued more than actual hard work - everything changes.

You can reclaim hours of your week. Not by quitting or setting it all alight, but by working efficiently in order to spend the majority of your ‘office time’ on things that bring you joy and help you realise the life you actually want.

I did no work for a year and nobody noticed.

That taught me the rules. Now I work late into the night on projects I care about because I want to, not because I have to. I experience flow states daily.

I’ve built a life I don’t need to escape from.

You’re not being deceitful. You’re being intelligent. You’re following nature’s principle: don’t waste energy where it doesn’t matter.

Stop grinding, start playing. If I can do it, you can do it too.

What's your experience with bullsh-t jobs, ever had one? Have you tried tactical slacking? Let me know!

If you are not happy, abstain from participation. Enough said! Make a statement.

Give us an update. How's it going for you RTMs

So, I exposed all the management issues in Oracle on my employee survey and was laid off! I know for a fact that it would never happen if I did not do this. But Oracle's management issues needed to be documented, and I've decided not to take this to attorneys as I need to let it go and move on with my career. What I witnessed was harassment, no support for disability issues for my husband and lack of payment for bonuses and career progression/promotion that I was 3x told I was in process for. Oracle's lack of managing talent, promotion and discrimination is intolerable. I will move on to my next role, but I will never go back to Oracle given this experience in my career.

Cencora has sold Patient Services to Caremetx. All employees within those divisions of the company will be employed by Caremetx in the next coming months.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/27/3281487/0/en/caremetx-acquires-u-s-based-patient-services-and-free-goods-pharmacy-operations-from-cencora-significantly-expanding-its-patient-access-platform.html

We’re losing too many good people, especially leaders at the higher levels.

The people who are smart, capable, and marketable are finding other opportunities and leaving. The problem is that these roles are not being backfilled because leadership still believes we are “fat” or redundant. In reality, much of the redundancy is not where the strongest performers are.

So what happens? The remaining high performers absorb the work. More scope, more pressure, fewer experienced people, and no real plan to replace the talent walking out the door.

This is not sustainable. We are heading toward another wave of departures, and once that happens, the damage may not be fixable. Institutional knowledge is leaving. Strong leaders are leaving. The people who can carry the company through uncertainty are leaving.

At some point, this stops being “right-sizing” and becomes self-inflicted damage.

I am kind of in shock that there are fellow TIAAers who would go out of their way to throw a fellow colleague under the bus. I’ve been here over a decade and I do not coffee badge. I’m in for 4-5 full days because I find more peace and quiet at the office than at home when trying to get work done. But I would never tattle on a fellow colleague who is gaming the system!! We’re all adults! Maybe they have a reason, or if they don’t, that’s still none of my business! I’m actually flabbergasted. What have we become?

https://www.theverge.com/tech/916681/meta-ai-agents-employee-tracking

I found out one of my peers who is a senior manager has a criminal background. Not sure if I should report her. I am pretty sure the company is not aware of it.

Layoffs in 2026 hit six states hardest - Newsweek https://share.google/TPjOjG8LAS7TCqxOP

#2 is NJ stating 9K employees apart of WARN specifically mentioning VZ and doesn't seem like it's just spill over from last Nov. 🤔

Based on my rough calculations (and acknowledging there are likely different data sources), Aria showed approximately 178K employees at the start of August. As of today, Oracle General slack channel count indicates just under 155K employees.

This suggests that roughly 22K employees have been impacted by RIFs so far in FY26 …that’s before accounting for EMEA and the Philippines.

Is my math off?

This isn’t anecdotal. it’s a structural pattern that has unfolded over the last decade and accelerated since 2020.

What Exxon’s Benefit Reductions Actually Signal (Long‑Term)

Each individual cut: education reimbursement, donation matching, expat premium reductions, private offices → hot desks — looks small on its own.

But together, they form a coherent corporate strategy:

1. Exxon is shifting from a “career company” to a “cost‑optimized operator.”

The old Exxon (pre‑2015) invested heavily in:
• employee development
• long‑term retention
• premium benefits
• stability

The new Exxon is optimizing for:
• lower fixed costs
• higher capital efficiency
• leaner overhead
• shareholder returns

This is not a temporary phase it’s the new operating model.

1. Benefits are being cut because Exxon thinks the pension keeps people locked in.

Exxon’s leadership believes:
• The pension is golden handcuffs.
• Most employees won’t leave after 10–15 years.
• They can reduce benefits without losing many people.

This is why:
• Education reimbursement was cut
• Donation matching was cut
• Expat premiums were reduced
• Offices were eliminated
• Reimbursements were removed

The pension is to do the retention work, so benefits no longer need to.

1. Exxon is moving toward a “market‑median” benefits model.

Historically, Exxon was top‑quartile in benefits.
Now it is intentionally moving toward median.

This reduces cost and is said to increase shareholder return but it reduces employee value.

1. The company is signaling that culture will not return to the old model.

Hot‑desking, reduced expat premiums, and benefit cuts are not temporary.

They are part of a permanent cultural shift:
• More transactional
• More cost‑driven
• Less employee‑centric

This is the opposite direction of other companies, which despite volatility still invest heavily in employee experience.

Jeff Benzo should fire every single Blue Origin employee

29-44% of employees admit to purposefully sabotaging AI rollouts at their companies.

https://fortune.com/2026/04/08/gen-z-workers-sabotage-ai-rollout-backlash/

https://www.coworker.org/petitions/sign-on-1

Not sure if anyone else has seen the petition

I thought the employee appreciation day in HQ was so well done, I really enjoyed hearing about all the award winners. The food trucks were an added bonus to bad it’s only once a year. Would be nice to see people smile like that once a quarter. Plus I think bring your kid day should definitely be brought back it’s fun seeing the little kids!

Thanks canon and Sammy for a good day.

Teams have been gutted, some repeatedly, by layoffs and reorgs that solve nothing. Yes, talent is expensive. But when you're too lazy to cut strategically and just go for the simplest savings, you shed the people you actually need. Meanwhile, the endless turmoil ki-ls morale, ki-ls commitment, and ki-ls any chance of long-term planning. Chaos like that always turns out to be far more expensive in the end.

For all those who use the word, what is the definition?

I ask because the spirit of your callout is just, but you further yourself as an id--t and follower (entertaining) by consistently demonstrating you don't know the definition nor have a desire to seek it and the accurate term for what you describe.

I know Exxon couldn't care less. There's no reward coming, and I'll likely be shown the door eventually without management giving it a second thought. But I'd lose my mind if I spent 8 to 10 hours a day just skating by, working only for a paycheck. I honestly don't know how some people manage to do that so easily.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/memorial-hermann-blue-cross-blue-shield-texas-in-network/285-ceceb89a-d299-47e7-868b-f4f58889cb4e

I hope they don’t keep doing this to us every year to try to juice their profits by Pennie’s. Maybe we can use some of that excess Iran war profit to improve benefits for employees

Where do ideas like the elimination of NRE and more aggressive firing of employees placed in NSI originate from? What is the “problem” that they think they are solving with these changes? The only clear explanation is a desire to reduce the number of US employees without having to perform a layoff. I would like to know who was told to find a way to cut more employees and proposed this as the solution.

If you weren't sure before you should know it now.

Not sure how this motivates anyone to care about their work anymore and you can't outsource your way to success.

I wonder how panelists would feel if they knew that the Field Reps going into their homes, and driving through their neighborhoods are not dr-g tested? Huge liability for Nielsen as many of their field employees are under the influence at work, especially in states with legal ca--abis.

It was only a matter of time before Penn State board realized that change was needed. Good luck to all of the employees across the bned psu operations.

It's easier to send out an email like that one to thousands of human beings. Writing us off like office furniture.