Since January, on all of my calls, it's really obvious people are burned out and complaining that there's so much work and not enough people. I am wondering if management just wants everyone to resign to be able to reduce headcount. And then what? It's people in the bottom doing most things. I've been on calls where people were just dependent on this one singular person doing all the stuff. What if he goes? At this point I am doubtful that this is even part of their decision-making process.
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Headcount is the inverse of stock price
May is going to be brutal. Especially for long tenured employees. George has hitched the wagon to the AI bubble which is in the process of deflating. If only we had invested in innovation instead of claiming NFS is a foundational technology for AI. Management only cares about the stock price.
Internal hiring
The hiring managers team is going through a reorganization, will be the headcount for the role I applied still available in your experience? Completed the final interview a while ago. The recruiter mentioned that they are still waiting for the decision.
Firin’ Friday?!?
It’s Friday. Last business day of the month. Seems like a good day to reduce headcount. Anybody get called into a last minute Teams meeting with your very complicit PL and an HR stooge yet?
IAD 21
How many jobs were lost at IAD 21 in this most recent RIF?
Milwaukee locations
Any updates on size of work force in Milwaukee? Any insight on AT&T plans regarding job functions other than local designations? Is current HC stable?
Interesting Point
Citi’s stated goal of reducing headcount from roughly 240,000 in 2022 to about 180,000 by 2026 cannot be reconciled with the headline figure of ~20,000 layoffs. Even allowing for normal attrition and divestitures, the numbers imply that a far larger reduction is occurring off-headline—through hiring freezes, role eliminations via restructuring, automation, and business exits—suggesting the “20,000” figure significantly understates the true scale of workforce contraction.
How many employees?
When Kyndryl started they bragged about having 90 000 employees all over the world. I'm wondering how many they have now? Any info? It would give a scale of layoffs. I bet closer to 60-50k
Predictions for headcount
Feb 2025 was a bloodbath. Will there be layoffs next month ?
Why loyalty is lost and frustration runs high
Root Causes:
- Forced ranking
- PIP % goals to reduce headcount
- Sponsorship and false high ranking of sponsored id--ts
- Continued degradation of employee treatment and reduced benefits
- PIPing competent 50+ HC10 employees to replace with low cost/low quality 3rd world cheap labor
- All productive work only happens so can put on PDS to avoid PIP
Results:
- Loyalty approaching zero
- Pride in EM already zero
- Employees treat each other like competitors hoping to avoid the PIP
- Teamwork only occurs if employees think their contributions will look good on PDS
- Supervisors and coworkers constantly and falsely claim successes of others on their PDS
- Most employees advise college graduates not to interview with EM
- Sponsored id--ts given easiest assignments for very short durations, and transferred at the slightest indication their stupidity will be traceable to them. Leads to dangerous false confidence, zero skills attained, and inflated arrogance.
Bumping it up so it’s not lost in replies. This deserves its own thread. OP: @cq+1kcsvj34s
Latest headcount at Dell?
what is latest head count at dell now?
If possible breakup will help?
Employee #s
Does anyone know current employee headcount? Is there a number they're trying to reach with layoffs?
FE/SP facing slow times
I'm a lead in FE and was advised by the PGL that she has to let people go in January. She told me that she can't justify the headcount she has. No new orders are being pulled and the LTF has been erased.
Brian Evanko - "Expect lower headcount in 20026 that what Cigna has today"
With 3+ years of layoffs, Voluntary Retirement packages, offshoring of headcount, and sale of Medicare business and headcount, how possible can Cigna cut deeper in 2026 while continuing to invest in healthcare transformation, care delivery quality, and technology? Math does not add up.
What's the current HC. How far are we from 75K target
I need a laser focused report.
What's the current employee count?
Does anyone here know?
Personnel challenges faced by AT&T
This Forum reflects the need for significant headcount reductions in 2026. We struggle with any decision for increased investment while AT&T continues to retain these bad seeds. They tarnish the value of your Product. AT&T could have a bright future if the tougher decisions are made to prevent further decline.
How many Chiefs are necessary??
Pretty sure "managers" outnumber the employees considering I found over 2,000 that have no direct reports. Is Wells running a laundry??
spring head counts ?
Newer MBA here wondering when we will know our spring headcount’s and budgets for Q1 ? And any information anyone could share would be appreciated
Performance purge is coming up
Heard there have to be 4s on the team. This might be the new strategy to get rid of some serious headcount without any severances. Track your work and have enough evidence to contest the 4s. If they want you out they want you out.
One plus One = One
1 + 1 =1 With the recent reductions, the headcount will be replaced with Frontier workforce in the next three months. So the employee size of Vz will be very similar for the next year or two. Maybe, a few a Frontier’s leaders will become major Verizon executives. These types of reductions have been occurring with all major Verizon takeover transactions over the past decades.
Retail reps in bottom 5%
Or even if your store is in the closing, you may be losing headcount. Cutting bottom 5% little or specialists? True?
CMD is over - target headcount is now 70k
77th page, https://www.nokia.com/sites/default/files/2025-11/nokia-cmd-2025.pdf
Upcoming Quarter
Next Quarter
So, there's a lot going on here… Q3 and we're revving up for Q4… and we're preparing preparing for Q1. you know we have our eyes on the following Q2 and Q3 that comes after that and then that pivotal Q4 kind of ramping out to 2027… pivotal Q1, until 2027 Q2, followed by that Q3 and the Q4, kind of going into 2028 Q1. so there's a lot that we are kind of like laddering up there's a lot, kind of going over and we're gonna make sure that we kind of like we are not boiling the ocean or jumping shark next quarter. Upcoming quarter, also, headcount rebalancing. And talent retention.
Hire to fire
How is it possible thar our organization added 4~5 headcount less than 12 months ago and we are now being told that layoffs are imminent. Makes no sense to me. You hire people to lay them off couple of months later.
What's the current count?
Are there any real people left in HR who could share the current employee headcount?
Do canceled reqs get taken?
We are already short people with several reqs open and one stopped during the hiring freeze before interviews could be done. If they need to cut from my team do these count as a headcount?
It’s either 29k layoffs or 29k employees (HC)
They ran reports showing a 29k headcount.
IYKYK
I want to believe that Verizon has more than 29k employees.
2026 layoffs confirmed in investor day presentation
We are guiding for an additional billion in cost savings and EB said on the call it would come from the same structural changes (headcount) as the billion we hit this year. Exciting times!
Central control program team
The company has been successfully programmed. Why do we need the thousand plus people employed in this group now?
Layoffs across the organization. US headcount a target.
Layoffs are starting as we head into the holiday season. Many US roles, especially a number of roles in IT, are being relocated to lower cost hubs. Tough time to be a US employee, as many good people are leaving the organization. Morale is at a low point.
Will somebody please think of the poor shareholders?
Guys, let’s pleeeease all stop being greedy and wanting to keep our jobs. Here are some stats to show you guys how greedy you are:
- Verizon ONLY made $5 billion in net income last quarter. That’s practically nothing
- Worst yet, Verizon has ONLY made $20 billion in net income in the past 12 months. Practically bankrupt. Very unprofitable.
- Headcount was down over 45,000 under Hans. That’s nothing!!
- Since 2015, headcount is down ~80,000. Why not more!? Come on. Take one for the team, guys.
- Our dividend is ONLY 6.93% so we only pay out $11.6 billion a year to our shareholders in dividends. This clearly isn’t enough.
- Hans only made $24 million a year and Sampath only makes $13 million a year. This hardly buys you waterfront in The Hamptons.
You guys need to all stop being so greedy over paying your mortgages, your children’s college bills, and going to the supermarket.
We need to keep our shareholders and executives at the forefront of everything, because they are clearly suffering much more than we are.
I’ll be starting a GoFundMe soon because I doubt Dan Schulman’s bonus will be big enough, but I’m sure he has already asked Perplexity and brought it up at the dinner table with his family.
Anyone check employee counts by country recently?
Use employee look-up like normally would, doesn't matter who
When results open select Detailed search. For Country use USA, then IND, then I think it was PHL
Will give you count for each country code.
I am trying to find my numbers from 2019.
More layoffs to come
NEW YORK/TORONTO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Wells Fargo (WFC.N), opens new tab CEO Charlie Scharf said on Wednesday he expects the U.S. bank's workforce to decline further as it focuses on efficiency.
"It's likely we'll have less headcount as we look forward ... we'd like to do much of it through attrition as possible," Scharf said in an interview, noting the bank had 275,000 employees when he joined in 2019 and a little over 210,000 currently.
what % of each dept's
does anyone know the exact numbers of each and which dept's and how many at each level ,wireless and wireline ,like real numbers?
A Lot of Fake News About Microsoft Headcount (Also: Microsoft's Debt Rose by About 24 Billion Dollars in Past 12 Months)
If you see some headline about Microsoft's CEO making claims about hirings, look away
https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/04/A_Lot_of_Fake_News_About_Microsoft_Headcount_Also_Microsoft_s_D.shtml
Can we stop already with the AI bullsh-t?
What’s really happening is offshoring and cutting headcount. Once we reach the next “lean” stage and the workload triples, we’ll all discover that no AI actually took on any of the work. At least not in the sense of replacing anyone. I’ve yet to see a model that doesn’t hallucinate or need supervision. Sure, it can speed up some tasks, but that’s it. So can we finally stop using it as an excuse?
Latest Q4'25 Headcount as of October
Is anyone know what is the latest HC that Intel have now?
We continue adding H1B headcount
others are cutting but we are adding.