#layoff

Start of fiscal year soon.

It's gonna be wild!! 16000 this time. That's like 57000 layoffs in the past few years, plus all of the silent layoffs/RTO/RTT/RTH (30000+). Something close to 25% of corporate.

So how do the layoffs which tool place 1 year ago look now as a strategic initiative ?

On December 23, 2024, AM Best wrote the following:

Mutual of America Financial Group is laying off employees as part of its focus on becoming a "more efficient, strategic and customer-focused organization."

Is it more efficient now ?
Is it more client focused ?
Is this all just smoke and mirrors ?

Get ready for the fu-kery that's going to happen on the 5th, maybe even the 4th 😹

Can I take another job if I’m in my non working notice period before lay off?

In coffee line waiting for barista to take my order, overheard two people behind me talking quietly about organizational changes in Q1. Has anyone heard anything about this they can share? Will it be due to layoffs?

I mean something useful and at least somewhat credible. We all know major layoffs are coming, so it would be great to have a heads-up. And let’s be kind to each other, losing our jobs would be tough. The job market out there isn’t exactly cheerful or full of options.

Ending up in PE hands would probably mean a bloodbath. Private equity is almost always focused on extracting value first, which, of course, means massive cuts. Not that we aren’t trained by experience to expect the worst, but this would be a major threat to most of our jobs.

Your time has come you are done good luck good riddance it's over for you enjoy unemployment

"LBT achieved getting paid a lot of money by Intel. Also increased stock price from 20 to 40. Convinced Trump Intel was too big to fail and not only got him to donate money, got him to Arm twist nVidia to do so too. Also got Intel to donate to his startups. Wow! Increased margins by reducing headcount, either by outright layoffs or by giving employees BE and PIP thereby saving severance package. Increased productivity by telling employees to “laser focus” on working hard.

However, Intel is nowhere in AI. Anybody who is employable enough to find a job at some other company has done that by now."

"I am wondering how much he paid to the government officials to avoid his own layoff and even got the fund to bump up the stock. Remember INTC stock was kicked out the DOW earlier not too long ago and why it is suddenly bump up almost 100% in just a few months (?) Who is behind the manipulation order ?"

How long before intel's inflated stock plunges?

I understand that they laid off employees in October and they encouraged them to reapply for their positions. Does anyone have information on how many were let go and how many have been brought back? I've heard they were considering external candidates because those who were let go were unofficially not meeting expectations. Is there any truth to this?

I thought I would fall off a cliff when it happened, but instead I’ve never felt so unburdened. It wasn’t just the relief after all that anticipation, but also realizing how much I actually hated my job and how completely I had lost perspective on what matters while constantly being on edge in a small, toxic team. I just hope I don’t reach a point a year from now where I feel awful and am still jobless.

The Alabama layoffs are part of a broader workforce reduction at UPS, which announced in October that it had cut 48,000 jobs nationwide across its management and operations divisions, as the company works to streamline costs.

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2025/12/26/why-is-ups-cutting-128-jobs-in-al-when-will-ups-layoffs-in-al-begin/87918985007/

When does Wells Fargo pay out unused PTO for those who were laid off and their severance period ends today?

https://fordauthority.com/2025/12/ford-blueoval-sk-battery-park-plant-will-close-in-february/

All workers at this facility will be laid off by 2/14/26

How long does it take to get the actual severance payout, once you accept the agreement? I was RIF'd in September, received and signed the agreement at the beginning of December but there's no information on when to expect the payout

The goal to let people go is a different feel now they will look for every little reason to fire someone and to make sure the severance cost plummets so make sure you hit your goals office expectations etc yes I know this is old news but it isn’t because it is a real goal so look for more firings in 2026

Let’s see if we can guess when we’ll have the first layoff of 2026. I’ll start: end of January.

It’s funny how uncertainty flips a switch. Suddenly my resume’s polished, alerts are on, and I’m paying attention again, looking for any opportunity to leave. Not exactly the motivation I wanted, but I’ll take it.

Goldman Sachs found that layoffs now lead to stock price losses. Will the board learn from this?

https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/goldman-sachs-research-ceos-layoffs-stock-price/

And please, dear trolls: stay away.

Goldman Sachs found that layoffs now lead to stock price losses. Will the board learn from this?

https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/goldman-sachs-research-ceos-layoffs-stock-price/

The traditional Wall Street playbook held that layoffs tied to strategic restructuring would boost stock prices, while cuts driven by declining sales would hurt them. That distinction appears to have collapsed.
Goldman's analysts suggest investors simply don't believe what companies are saying ... The real driver, analysts suspect, may be cost reduction to offset rising interest expenses and declining profitability rather than any forward-looking efficiency play.
https://slashdot.org/story/25/12/25/1727221/wall-street-has-stopped-rewarding-strategic-layoffs

Is this likely how the layoffs will go down?

Store level employees should be mostly fine. Most likely cut is BWC. High paid SMs might be a target down the line, but I think the focus will be DM and above in January.
OP: @a2+1kd6vad2r

“Linking recent layoff announcements to public companies’ earnings reports and stock market data, we find that the recent increase in layoff announcements came mainly from companies that attributed their layoffs to benign factors, such as restructuring driven by automation and technological advancements.” But instead of going up, these stocks fell by an average of 2%. And companies that cited restructurings were punished even more harshly. As the analysts wrote, “This suggests that, despite the benign justifications offered, the equity market has perceived recent layoff announcements as a negative signal about these companies’ prospects.”

https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/goldman-sachs-research-ceos-layoffs-stock-price/

Reminder for all employees working on layoff planning. Business as usual the day after Christmas. Please get a good nights sleep and tell your families and visitors you’ll see them next year. And stuff.

One last cleanup before entering 2026
Next Tuesday: Dec 30

Thoughts? Any Publicis layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

It was a farce from the beginning. The organization selected incompetent and unqualified individuals to LCS. Instead of choosing the right people based on skills, selection was based on politics…you help me and I help you. It’s an organization full of backstabbers/ credit stealers who are adept at managing up but achieved little on their own. What’s worst is the nonsense they spout inside and outside the company. A layoff there is needed.

Lately, it seems like more people are just being let go. They're not calling it a layoff, and there's no severance. Just, quietly firing folks, I guess?

Heard LRs in Prisma BUs

I was scheduled for mandatory Compliance Training a few weeks back. Earlier this week, it was cancelled from My Learning. Am i reading too much into it? With the upcoming, ongoing cuts, i cant help but wonder if I was put on the list. Thoughts?

I can’t sleep after being laid off by digi-wreck a few months back and not finding anything to replace my job. I could not buy gifts this year for my kids and we are all scared.. I tried to apply for fast food, retail, and construction jobs until I find something in IT and they said I was over qualified. We will keep trying. Please don’t forget those of us that were laid off and those that will be losing their jobs next year. It is really sad and very real. I wish they had just told us there was a high possibility of lay offs in advance so we could have searched before the layoffs happened but they didn’t trust their teams . My family does wish you all happiness this holiday season.

Did Intel reach the target yet on Christmas and end of the year?

Getting laid off from IBM ended up being a lot more freeing than I expected. At first it stung, but once the dust settled, I realized I’d been stuck in a place that was going nowhere. Constant reorganizations, shifting priorities, and leadership that never seemed to agree on a direction made every day feel unstable. It was exhausting trying to stay motivated when the ground kept moving under your feet.
Looking back, getting pushed out forced me to step back and see how unhealthy the situation really was. The stress, the uncertainty, and the endless talk with very little action had become normal, and that’s not a great place to be. I was able to focus on finding something more stable and rewarding, instead of clinging to a job that was slowly burning me out.

I didn’t see anything here in CA, but all the posts last week were so certain of mass layoffs. I would have expected to see some posts sharing their severance details

For those of you that were laid off, or left, after age 55, does the 401k plan offer partial distribution or only lump sum? The SPD doesn't mention. Fidelity states partial is allowed, but says it can't provide documentation since it "could" change.

What does your intuition tell you about how the firm will do in 2026? More layoffs? Higher stock price? Any changes at the C-suite level? Asking for a friend who is trying to decide whether to fire WF and how soon.

Meeting is already set. Iykyk