#future

Now that the week is over, I'm just trying to figure out how long exactly it took to wrap things up. Just to be better prepared for the future.

If you're smart enough to read between the lines, you should see BIG changes coming up on the horizon

have a lot of hope for the new year. clearly there are quite a few malcontents here that might want to consider greener pastures. but for the dedicated fiserv loyalists, the new year is going to rock!!!!

1k days?

I am interested in whether people are thinking of joining up.

My thoughts are that the company doesn’t feel very stable, the morale is low and I’m not really sure if growing the company is the real long term plan of our leadership. I still believe that we will be broken up and sold off.

So, I was wondering if I’m an outlier here and if others are feeling more optimistic about Solventum’s future.

Wonder if anyone still have faith for ExxonMobil Singapore future. The recent cut was very harsh and again a political game in the company. There are many whole day do nothing didnt get cut but there are ppl work damn hard get cut.. do you still like to work here ? What is the future to work here in dying sunset industry with flooded China and regional advancement and high quality and cheaper products.. sell gas station, shutdown cr--ker, whats next 5yrs, 10yrs? What else will remain running? Comments please...

It seems there might not be any layoffs from the general pool of people with the exception of those that took the VSP. VH didn’t address it and it seems the company is well position for the future. What’s your take on the townhall? Have you heard any rumors of any upcoming layoffs?

I can't wait. 2026 is shaping up to be great and prosperous year!

I know that Verizon’s future success is the last thing on the mind of the people who have been laid off, but someone commented that layoffs and AI will help Verizon bounce back and become more competitive. I cannot let that go without an answer. That’s not the case at all. Layoffs are just short term financial engineering so the leadership can report lower labor costs during quarterly earnings.

VZ had voluntary and involuntary layoffs every year for the last 10 years. If layoffs made companies grow, VZ would be growing like crazy and the share price would reflect it.

Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at Stanford Business School, had studied the available data and came to the conclusion that frequent layoffs hurt in the long run.

https://www.careerusa.org/jobs/179-resources/168-career-files/158-16-must-read-articles/372-lay-off-the-layoffs.html

Check-out #2 on the list. . .

https://time.com/7333715/best-companies-future-leaders-2026/

IBM will continue layoffs until it finds a business model that works and works reliably for many years. For the last two decades, Software, Hardware, and Services have taken turns playing the IBM not-me game. I won’t make profit, but I will amplify that other team which will directly own your profit. Without my synergy, you will surely fail, so you must keep me. Every couple years, a new profit maker is anointed and a new round of the game begins.

Even if they find a model, it needs to work reliably for many years. Not so long ago at the beginning of Watson (AI), a Watson kick-off meeting was held in Austin for the entire Watson management team. The business plan presented would rapidly accelerate to stratospheric heights in 3 or better yet 2 years and remain there for 20-30 years before starting a gradual and still profitable decline. Commoditization utterly destroyed this plan and business in 18 months. Models fail even faster in 2025.

In a world of cheap vanilla-grade CPUs, RAM, networking, and storage and completely free software, it’s hard to find a higher grade product that people will pay for outside of regulated businesses. And those who do unquestionably need the value add point to the cheap stuff and demand lower pricing. And the cowards in sales fear losing 100% of their commission and decide that a steep discount benefits both them and their client.

This is nothing new; it’s just come to IBM’s corner of tech now. In the 80’s there was a battle between two consumer video storage systems: Betamax and VHS. The cheaper — in both senses — won out. There were superior alternatives to Compact Discs for audiophiles, but the CD wiped them off the market. MP3 audio compression is terrible, but it dominated the music streaming and download business for a long time.

All 3 of IBM’s pillars (Hardware, Services, and Software) have experienced their own versions of this. That’s why they play not-me. IBM has 3 future strategies. Hybrid Cloud, which can’t sustain an IBM-sized business. AI which is already deep into the commoditization spiral and has as an industry accumulated over a trillion dollars in debt. IBM has already stepped off the AI stage, preferring to serve as high-end salesmen for partners’ actual products packaged up with an IBM bow. Quantum Computing: how many non-governmental clients will actually need this capability badly enough to shoulder some risk, finance the development costs, and pay ongoing support. Quantum computing could be the opening for IBM to become the CocaCola Bottling company of tech — providing a low-profit product that makes others fabulously wealthy.

Until these things change, IBM will have to undergo periodic amputations. When it ends in one or more passes through Bankruptcy Court, then we will discover how bad things can get.

A once failing tech company called Apple righted itself for a while by leaving the tech industry and joining the fickle fashion industry. Is there another industry where centenarian IBM might fit well?

Buckle up folks … and prepare for turbulence for the duration of the flight.

Perfectly said, @tq+1kb1metdd.

SJ is the biggest liabilty for Pearson. Future of Pearson revolves around her being replaced by a leader who respects and values staff.

The company isn’t ruling out additional reductions across different functions over the next two years as it ramps up usage of the technology, according to people familiar with the matter. McKinsey is also closely assessing what tasks can be carried out by AI, the people said, declining to be identified as the details are private.

https://www.ndtvprofit.com/business/mckinsey-cuts-about-200-tech-jobs-shifts-more-roles-to-ai

Layoff’s are one of the main tools to boost a companies stock price.
Now that we are doing that with some more room to go, the price has risen 48% YTD.
Again, there’ll be another round or two of layoffs of that I’m sure.

So the question is, after its all said and done and the stock is at whatever price its at…..does it flatline, go up or does it go down. A stock price bump is easy to achieve with even the announcement of the word “layoff” much less when you actually do it. So now that we are there….what does it look like going forward?

Does it have legs to keep running or does it drop over time back to where it was 2-3 years ago?

Any ideas how long will Chicago and St.Louis continue?

What do you think Verizon will look like?

Will it even exist?

Reports last week was 15K, actual number was 13k. Is it possible there will be no more major layoffs for 2026 at VZ?

What’s going to happen to Optum in the long run?

Please dont turn this into a political thread. Both parties are disgusting and colluding to fu-k the worker.

US based Tier 2 tech department just got extremely thinned out. More and more US based employees are being let go. Think about your future because Verizon won’t. If you havnt heard anything by EOD I’d stop stressing as 30 day notice is Dec 19th which is our final date.

And that's supposed to be the future. There really isn't any rhyme or reason to this thing.

With companies like IBM laying off thousands —
Microsoft laid off 9,000, Amazon ousted 14,000,
Accenture about 11,000 — it might be time to
seriously consider the future of this
displacement.
We won't be holding our breath.

https://www.bgr.com/2025199/ibm-tried-replace-workforce-ai/

My AD contacted me and He asked to schedule a meet with some vendors next week. Was this BAU and pretending nothing is going on or a sign of being safe?

I continue to hear rumors about an upcoming future layoffs AND a merger. I'm hearing that the VSP and additional layoffs are being done to position us well for a merger (GuideWell???).

Any insights as to what the future holds for R2B? Only a couple months into my tenure (Sr Mgr) and very concerned.

So much for jobs coming back to the US. Mid and entry level jobs are disappearing by the tens of thousands and the trend is accelerating thanks to enhanced AI and its adoption across the jobs universe. Finance, law, entertainment are all in its crosshairs and the only people benefitting are those who can afford to play in the stock market. It’s time to rethink what’s happening around us.

The fanatical obsession with meeting next quarter's numbers to mollify Wall Street is diametrically opposed to being a strong innovation company. The linkage between end customers and CRL and Divisions was very strong for decades. It covered all businesses. Major advances in road sign and road paint to improve nighttime visibility was a classic win-win. Think how many lives have been saved. Just pulled my winter gloves out for the first real cold blast of early Winter and love seeing Thinsulate.

Desi may have been a so-so CEO and perhaps a good example of Peter Principle, but the innovation didn't die with him. The problem began with James McNerney. He's the one who decided the penny-wise pound-foolish strategy of starving CRL to pay for bigger dividends or buying back shares was a winning strategy. WS loved the guy. Employees not so. Other than a 20% boost in 3M share price the week he was announced in 2000, the share price didn't beat the SP500 by much for the rest of his failed tenure. Inge borrowing billions to buyback shares and scare off activist investors saved his and Mike's job but left the company starved of new blockbusters.

Like Field of Dreams (build it and he will come), for CRL is needs to be "invent it and customers will come" - BBs obsession with NPIs only breeds game-playing (how about a peach colored sticky note, any one?). When Desi pushed for 30% of sales from new products, he at least fully funded CRL. BB, nope!

Just happy I somehow made it to the right age/experience to get pension and retiree medical support (although BB is sc--wing people over to be "competitive"). I see no future left with this place. Just pump it full of painkiller and break it off into pieces and hope the divisions don't end up with a Bryan Hanson 40 million dollar man doing what he's doing to wreck SOLV.

Perfectly said, @z9+1k9bbemrv.

People who are having extended life, wait until Q1 2026 round?
60K 2026 is the new normal?

If your job can be done from home then it can be replaced by either AI or offshoring. I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be mean but blue collar is all that will be left in the near future.

How many of us will be replaced by AI in the next few years?

Any indication on what bonuses will be in spring of 2026? I need for SOMETHING to look forward to

What are your predictions about the workforce in Legal, TAP, and Corporates?

Ultimately it’s probably better to find out now than waste more time. He’s a multi millionaire that is dangling layoffs and leaving everyone in the dark to punk us. What type of leaders makes those types of threats during the holidays? A bad one that is just a hatchet man that was sent to dismantle Verizon and dump on us. That’s the corporate life and the real world. He’s been on the board for multiple years he’s not looking to grow the company. He’s looking to drive shareholder value so he can exit and get a nice payout. If your store doesn’t close this time it will soon. The future is 100% online with AI. Buy a phone anywhere and then activate online. Hopefully you get a nice payout and then move on retail is dead.

Does your Band 5 or Band 6 make the final call on your future ?

Are we done for w/in next 24 months?

Can we agree that data centers will be be farmed out.

Can we agree that customer facing jobs are safe, but only untill kiosk improvements are completed and we are looking at a wave of cuts there in Q2 of 2026.

What am I missing?