#jobsecurity

Any word on potential November or December layoffs? Dates? Roles? Departments?

Heard whispers about November or December

Does any1 know if b2b sam is going to be let go? I hear most of the ticket teams are being let go.

The board can spin the latest news all they want, but if you look at the raw financial metrics and corporate baggage, the writing is on the wall for a massive cost-restructuring.

The smoking g-n just hit the SEC database on November 5, 2026. L3Harris filed a Form 8-K confirming it closed a massive $1.0 billion senior note offering ($500 million at 5.200% due 2029 and $500 million at 5.400% due 2032). Corporate communications will call this routine capital management, but let’s look at the financial realities:

The Fixed-Overhead Interest Squeeze (The 8-K Reality)

L3Harris is running straight into a massive $1.8 billion debt maturity wall over the next 60 days specifically, $550 million in 3.85% senior notes due December 15, 2026, and $1.25 billion in 5.40% notes due January 15, 2027. Rolling over $550 million of older debt from a 3.85% interest rate to a 5.200% rate creates an immediate, structural spike in annualized corporate borrowing costs. Because bondholders must be paid first, operating profit margins are taking a direct hit, forcing CEO Sam Mehta to balance the ledger by aggressively slashing variable labor costs.

Massive Cash Capital Outflows

The company is aggressively leaking liquid cash to handle self-inflicted institutional wounds. On top of absorbing $84 million in combined DOJ fraud settlements for overcharging on ROVER/VORTEX systems and double-billing basic hardware components, the board just approved an $80 million stock-and-option separation package to slide Christopher Kubasik out the door after his code-of-conduct investigation. Add in the multi-million dollar legal fees draining corporate cash to fight Viasat in the Delaware Court of Chancery over the $2 billion Link-16 acquisition adjustments, hundreds of millions of dollars are leaving the balance sheet with zero operational return.

Vanishing Billing Codes via Congressional Scrutiny

With the House of Representatives flipping control after the midterms, the political cover the corporate PAC spent heavily to maintain has completely collapsed. Incoming House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith has explicitly vowed to aggressively probe defense industrial equity investments and "sweetheart deals." High-profile, politically exposed programs like the controversial $934 million Qatari 747 luxury modification contract face immediate audits, freezes, or forced re-competes. The moment a program undergoes a forced freeze, its project billing codes vanish. Systems and software engineers cannot sit on "unallocated overhead" for long without damaging quarterly margins, making quick, project-based engineering layoffs inevitable.

Global Facility Gridlock and Reputation Flight

The friction isn't just in Washington. In Europe, the relocation of the Brighton arms factory to Unit 3 at Panattoni Park in Burgess Hill is entirely gridlocked due to public protests over F-35 component manufacturing and intense scrutiny over local council redactions. When a manufacturing facility's transition hits a wall, local assembly workers, facility engineers, and site coordinators face immediate displacement because there is no active floor space to execute contract deliveries. Combine this operational halt with defensive, voluntary resignations from elite software talent trying to distance their resumes from the ICE data leak, and the company is facing an operational crisis.

When and Where Will the Ax Fall?

Expect the operational restructuring to hit in two distinct waves:

Phase 1 (Late Q4 2026 / Early January 2027): The immediate target will be non-technical, white-collar corporate overhead. Following corporate-wide mandates to tighten operational expenditures, corporate recruiters, marketing units, administrative support layers, and middle-management functions will face automated cost-rationalization cuts as the company protects its cash reserves ahead of the January 15 debt deadline.

Phase 2 (Late Q1 / Early Q2 2027): Project-based workforce reductions will strike systems engineering, cyber specialists, and defense assembly teams the moment multi-committee congressional subpoenas actively freeze federal funding lines or international lease agreements fall through.

If a project team is sitting on unallocated overhead or exposed billing codes, it is time for team members to update their resumes and look for insulated, high-priority safe harbors within more secure, non-audited programs before the consolidation engine kicks into overdrive.

managers asking me about my career path ? during layoffs .? is this nuts 🥜 or what

Heads up. I have heard rumors of a massive layoff happening in the in mid November of around 400 people and then another on in the early part of 2027.

There will be an other layoffs after next Monday likely in January. BCG will be on site in December.

Is any body else concerned about the 7.9% YOY decline in Ford vehicle sales and 10.9% YOY decline in Lincoln sales? If vehicles aren’t selling, jobs will be eliminated.

We all got the email and I know this is a d-mb question but what Band levels do you all think will be most affected? Some say middle management should worry, others argue it’s going to be the regular workers (Band 1 and 2) this time. I theorize it will be a mix of everyone.

Under no circumstances are you to speculate when we will be eliminating your position. We will be "transparent" and inform you of your elimination the day it happens.

Does anyone know why on fms there are such low volumes recently? Should we be worried about layoffs?

Are there any December layoffs? If so when and what roles? What sites? Wondering if they will happen before bonuses?

So when are layoffs coming for remote workers?! Im tierd of thinking about this for a while now. Someone spill the beans! Will everyone thats not near a hub be laid off soon? Like before the end of the year?

I came across a post mentioning that Exposure Management, Cyber Defense, AI Security, and Network Operations roles could be eliminated as part of the restructuring and transformation planned for 2027.

Does this indicate that Verizon is planning to lay off its entire Security team, or is this similar to previous restructuring exercises, where lower-level bands are targeted to reduce headcount while protecting upper management positions?

The AA call just now seems pretty ominous for the folks in apps sales. Looks like y’all are next. Respect and condolences to everyone impacted.

Almost a year out from the layoffs last year around Thanksgiving. When does everyone think the first wave will be?

Still amazed how “americas favorite grocery store” gave the message right before the holidays.

Multiple internal sources confirm a layoff the second week of November. Early next week. Don't plan on working to hard the next few days. What a shameful company this is.

Targets are US support and engineering teams. Managers received the commands today.

Or will there be more cuts in other areas throughout the rest of the week?

Are layoffs still next week?

I only wish that meant our chances of layoffs were dropping, but I know that couldn't be further from the truth.

I had no idea layoffs were coming and I know some people who were completely caught off guard in the last few weeks. This is not right.

Senior management apparently wants to avoid another large round of job cuts becoming public news, so its small layoffs all the time. I've noticed that a few people are being laid off nearly on weekly bases. This is our new reality.

Should we be preparing for something?

Small cuts are happening all the time, but they're not talked about. The big rounds are announced, the small ones are kept quiet so to avoid panic. We're never layoff-free at Ford.

They just said the quiet part out loud! In not so many words she is telling you to start looking for other opportunities. IYKYK
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I expect exactly nothing but layoffs. Profit, loss, it doesn't matter. They'll find a reason to lay us off.

I mean, they've been cutting consistently throughout the entire 2026, I'm hoping they cut everybody they wanted to for the year. Am I being too optimistic?

We had outsourcing to Hyderabad then Bogota, where are the US jobs going next????

Seriously, was on a call and a third of people were in LATAM.

The Web3 industry is experiencing significant job cuts, with many companies citing AI as the primary reason for layoffs. However, a substantial portion of these companies admit that financial pressures are the true underlying cause. This trend is reshaping the employment landscape across various sectors, including technology and finance. The rapid and severe nature of these layoffs has left many employees blindsided and struggling to find new opportunities. The industry's future viability is being questioned as these challenges persist.

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https://www.panewslab.com/en/articles/01a1a4a3-593f-7285-ae7d-f74c0fa127ec

Can somebody share any details?

I'm afraid it's going to be a bloodbath.

I've seen and heard of almost every single L7+ leader of people in the company that work with TII is visiting the new campus in India from beginning of October through January. Does anyone have any info on why? There's absolutely no reason for them to be flying so many people out just to tour a new shiny campus. Feels like more of our work is shifting to TII.

Notified this morning I was impacted, part of ILS. Not sure of the scale, more than one in our group.

Anyone else hear that there will be layoffs, starting with 2nd shift at the beginning of the year??

Does anybody know something concrete about coming layoffs?

Should we expect any more layoffs this year?

Another notification could arrive at any time, and we're left wondering whether we'll be the next ones called in. Constant uncertainty like this is no way to treat a workforce.

Those of you with high pay...I'd start saving, folks!

Or let me rephrased that, I used to really like my job, but now that has been overshadowed by constant layoffs with no end in sight. We had layoffs before, this is not new, but at least once the round was done, we knew it was done. How are we supposed to deal with the constant axe hanging over our heads?