#growth

Next quarter should be interesting when that nonsense rolls away.

She's swapping with TP, TP is going to fix GC and CS can focus on growing NA - GC was too hard for her.

Large US corporations are signaling a return to hiring after a period of reduced staffing. Executives now recognize the limitations of artificial intelligence, necessitating continued human resource investment. This shift is evidenced by a significant drop in jobless claims, reaching historic lows. Companies like Alphabet and CSX are planning to expand their workforces to meet growth objectives. The trend suggests a move away from the belief that fewer workers equate to faster growth.

https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/companies/layoffs-fear-over-ai-job-fears-ease-as-big-companies-resume-hiring-article-155188051

Anthem -> Carelon b/c that’s where the growth was supposed to be. Now nothing but infighting is going on at Carelon - I can’t get a straight answer on what to do and it looks like everyone is moving back to Anthem? I wonder if my old boss will take me back? Of wait, she was RIFd :(

He is explaining how he has reignited growth of an old fashioned industrial giant.

How is IBM able to maintain such a consistent track record - This would also mean for every 4 people who get assigned a PIP, only 1 would fail and be terminated. With the increase in number of PIPs that are being assigned to avoid WARN notice and save on the severance packages, the number of employees who continue to grow at IBM should also increase. Is that happening?

IBM’s problem is not that the mainframe disappears tomorrow. It is that most new workloads are being built elsewhere.

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Linux are now the defaults for new applications, while IBM Z, AIX and IBM i increasingly depend on existing customers, transaction growth and hardware-refresh cycles.

AI is weakening the mainframe’s strongest defense: the difficulty of understanding decades of undocumented COBOL and business logic. Toyota’s use of Amazon Q to analyze legacy COBOL and support migration planning is a warning. AI does not need to replace the mainframe directly; it only needs to make leaving cheaper, faster and less risky.

IBM’s traditional software is also exposed. DataStage faces cloud-native ELT, zero-ETL, Redshift, S3 and Iceberg. Red Hat remains useful, but many customers can choose EKS, AKS or GKE instead of OpenShift—and Amazon Linux instead of RHEL.

IBM Cloud is not a credible fourth hyperscaler, and IBM is not investing in AI infrastructure at anything close to Amazon, Microsoft or Google. Its AI strategy increasingly depends on competitors owning the compute, models, distribution and economics.

Quantum offers no immediate rescue. IBM is a serious contender, not the undisputed leader, and commercial returns remain years away.

IBM has repeatedly acquired companies—Lotus, Informix, Rational and many others—without consistently creating lasting platform leadership. Continuing to buy software companies while distributing billions through dividends does not address the underlying problem.

IBM should make an honest choice: cut the dividend and reinvest aggressively, or break up and sell its valuable businesses while they still command premium value.

Harvesting legacy cash, buying another company and protecting the dividend is not a growth strategy. It is managed decline.

Alphabet has significantly expanded its global workforce, adding nearly 12,000 employees in the past year. This hiring surge contrasts with widespread industry layoffs and reflects a strategic increase in investment in artificial intelligence and supporting infrastructure. The company reported strong financial performance, with revenue up 24% driven by cloud, advertising, and AI services. This growth is fueled by substantial capital expenditures aimed at AI data centers and advanced computing resources. Alphabet's strategy involves selective expansion in high-priority AI areas while reorganizing other business units.

Mountain View, California

https://www.tekedia.com/alphabet-expands-workforce-by-nearly-12000-as-ai-investment-accelerates-despite-industry-wide-layoffs/

The timing on this is very interesting. . .
Plenty of money for more M&A. Buying their way to revenue growth continues. . .

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/321374/20260723/ibm-acquires-hrl-bring-silicon-spin-qubits-its-anderon-quantum-foundry.htm

AT&T recorded 367,000 fiber net additions and 279,000 fixed wireless net additions. Fiber connections rose 22.8% year over year to 12.87 million, while fixed wireless connections climbed 77.4% to 2.61 million. Thank you JS and RTO!!!

Dr. Chris Mullen

Helping leaders work better, lead better, live better • Author, Better at Life • Keynote speaker

Your best people quit quietly Long before they resign. Top performers leave when you waste their potential.

Here are 9 real reasons they stay:

Free lunch won't keep your best people.

Neither will:

• Happy hours
• Casual Fridays
• Fooz ball tables
• Fancy coffee machines

What actually matters:

1️⃣ Genuine Appreciation.
↳ Not empty praise, but meaningful recognition.
↳ Celebrating their impact, not just their output.

2️⃣ Work That Matters.
↳ Problems worth solving, not just tasks to complete.
↳ Autonomy to make meaningful decisions.

3️⃣ Bigger Purpose.
↳ Connection to company mission that inspires.
↳ Building something they're proud to talk about.

4️⃣ Fair Compensation.
↳ Paying for impact, not just market rate.
↳ Clear path to growth in both role and rewards.

5️⃣ Leaders Who Fight For Them.
↳ Protecting their time like it's precious (it is).
↳ Having their back when it matters most.

6️⃣ Psychological Safety.
↳ Freedom to take smart risks.
↳ Trust to experiment and learn.

7️⃣ Real Influence.
↳ Voice in strategic decisions.
↳ Ideas that turn into action.

8️⃣ Rapid Growth.
↳ Challenges that stretch their capabilities.
↳ Skills that compound their value.

9️⃣ Life Beyond Work.
↳ Success without sacrifice.
↳ Energy for what matters outside work.

Great talent stays where their potential is unleashed.
Not contained. They stay where their impact is clear.
Not confused. They stay where leadership gets this right.

Kinetic Business is thriving like never before. The group here now is quite simply the best there is, was and ever will be!

Hi Gang

No help needed this time, i already told them there will be no growth for 3 YEARS 🤣 and got away with it.

Asta la vista babies

I’m hearing Q2 will be the turnaround quarter, word is the numbers coming through look fantastic, maybe that $8 target for the Warrants is in sight

After the $130 all-time high, it has continued to fall and now is down for the past 1 month. How long will it stay above $100 until the street realizes Cisco is just rebranding the usual Switching orders as AI Infra? There’s no meaningful improvement in other BUs like Wireless or SBG - more than the traditional single digit growth.

BAC up
C up
JPM up
GS up

broad market Financials up 1%

WFC down.

Because you can't fire your way to growth and you can't AI your way to efficiency (all you are doing is automating broken processes, ensuring they stay broken). Ford found this out the hard way and ended up hiring back 350 engineers they fired.

1. Startup: Bringing your business idea to life.

2. Growth: Consumers know about you and your revenue is increasing.

3. Maturity: More brand awareness and a strong presence in your target market.

4. Renewal or Decline: While every business wants to avoid a decline, it’s bound to happen to almost everyone. Reinvesting in your company can result in its renewal -- or decline can happen for a variety of reasons:
    

• Not pursuing opportunities to expand during the maturity stage
• Changes to the industry that require a change in strategy
• Competing businesses having better products or services
• Not reacting to technology updates or advances


https://www.thehartford.com/business-insurance/strategy/managing-growth/4-stages-business-growth

A Rutgers University report forecasts sluggish economic growth for New Jersey over the next two years, predicting a rate below the national average. The state's job market is expected to weaken, with employment growth projected to slow significantly in 2026. While education and health services have driven recent job gains, other sectors have experienced declines. Population growth, largely fueled by international migration, is also anticipated to decrease. The report suggests New Jersey's unemployment rate will remain higher than the national figure.

New Brunswick, New Jersey

https://jerseyvindicator.org/2026/07/11/new-jersey-economy-expected-to-trail-u-s-growth-for-next-2-years-rutgers-report-says/

Dell kickin a-s with a third of the market, 40% y/y growth
Powerstore
PowerMax
PowerVault
PowerScale
What's there not to love?

Culture always starts at the top.

Winning companies build cultures of trust, accountability, and innovation.

Losing companies build cultures of fear, bureaucracy, and compliance.

When employees spend more time talking about RTO, presence reports, FTW letters, and layoffs than customers, growth, or innovation, you’ve stopped building a winning culture. You’ve instead built a culture of survival.

If employees are disengaged, anxious, and constantly wondering what’s coming next, that’s not an employee problem. Leadership shapes culture, and culture shapes results.

You can’t track your way to engagement, you can’t mandate trust, and you can’t build a winning company with a culture of losing.

It’s not what’s for dinner…... Shake up the company and bake the books. Still waiting for growth mode

We are hiring and have returned to growth

Hundreds of open positions with a clear hiring and go to market strategy

The markets love us and are rewarding us with a solid stock price

Markets are down but otex is way up today - we are a strong company with a strong story which the markets love

SmartAsset, a financial technology company, released a new report. The report identified America's newest boomtowns nationwide. SmartAsset assessed over 400 cities based on economic output, housing, and labor force growth. Four California cities were ranked among these rapidly growing areas. Menifee, Rancho Cordova, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale made the list.

https://www.aol.com/articles/four-california-cities-among-americas-180001216.html

What if, and hear me out, leadership focused on growing revenue instead of shrinking headcount? Wouldn't that be something? Too bad nobody here would ever try that.

VP and above having off sites this week, you know what that means

That we are hiring and returning to growth

July is for sales only, I've heard around 20-30 layoffs

Company retaining most of it's talent , and growing

I usually come on here for small bursts for mental health.

So we went from We are hiring and have returned to growth

To immediately calling the inbetween layoffs (that were valid) low skill.

To now saying it's only Sales, who have also had pretty high turnover.

You guys have strange lore over here. No that's magically stopping all the debt. Can yall at least collect the new ones for me? 🥺

HR lackies.

2600 names and counting.

They seem to be growing and doing big things

MIP for PH was 70% which is crazy given the BU is a growth driver for Medtronic overall.

The entry barrier to inferencing is less compared to training and modeling side of AI . So competition will ki-l the dominant position soon. So the hyper scaler story CEO says will only have short life and company heading south

Société de transport de Sherbrooke (STS) is laying off 22 employees. These job cuts specifically target urban drivers. The decision comes despite the transit corporation's recent growth. STS reported a 33% increase in ridership since the pandemic. The union criticizes the move as nonsensical during expansion.

Sherbrooke, Quebec

https://cupe.ca/news/22-layoffs-sts-cutting-middle-growth-period-nonsensical-decision

He mentioned helping clients innovate through agentic AI, trusted data infrastructure, and other technology investments. Do you see this as a positive sign of growth and future opportunities, or are you taking a wait-and-see approach?
How do you think this investment will impact employees, clients, and future hiring?

I’m waiting to see what happens after the layoffs. Layoffs always cause a stock bump. The announcement of a multiyear layoff, while tragic, was smart for a sustained climbing stock bump but what about after?

You have to have something new that your competitor does not or do something better than your competitor. I’ve never seen a Citi bank, an actual walk in bank and I’ve never seen a Citi ATM other than what’s at the office. So we make the direction of wealth management. Oookay, so what’s our plan of getting that market share? People don’t just move money from a well established bank to another bank because they are bored with nothing to do.

What’s the plan to still have the stock grow post the layoffs? What are we doing to accomplish that, that’s either new or better than other banks?

Fantastic to see Shannon in Ireland this week with the announcement around growth (despite hating who she was standing alongside) . One thing we are in Ireland is a mecca for IT, put simply if you do not have an Irish presence in Europe, globally shut the doors. Let's go!!

One day I think we've got what it takes to climb back up. We've still got plenty of smart people and good products. But then I look at how far we've fallen and I wonder if we'll ever get that back. So I'm asking all of you. Do you think we'll find our way up again, or are those days behind us for good?

Hundred of open position, lots of new customers, very high renewal rates

We are a rocketship and the market is impressed

This seems like a company with the right priorities, soooo close to the 2Bn mark.

https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/centene