#layoff

There are usually layoffs in the first quarter of the year. Should we be expecting it this year as well?

This is by far the worst of all the jobs I held. A total nightmare. Two years here were two too many.

2 years later and massive reduction, there are still layers to be cut in sales, SE, TAM managers and directors. Most of them don't step out of office to engage customers because they can't. The ones in APJ are good example. Glad the SE boss gone back to his country.

The Christmas season is coming to an end. The Valentines Aisle is to be set in full in less than 3 weeks. Who do you think, at store level, is going to be laid off first? High paid SMs, high tier SMs, Hourly or Salary ESMs, IS or ISL, lessen the SFLs, the rest of the BCs, or RXOMs?

Schools have already been notified of how much they will have to cut from their budgets. The cuts will go into effect starting in August.

LAUSD officials in June had predicted a $1.6 billion deficit for the 2027-28 school year. But an updated version of the budget approved by the board last week eliminates the deficit by using reserve funds plus cost-cutting measures over the next two years.

https://www.the74million.org/article/layoffs-cuts-and-closures-are-coming-to-lausd-schools-as-district-confronts-budget-shortfalls/

The odds of finding another job anytime soon are very low. Rationally, I should want to hold on to this one, no matter how bad it is. But the toxicity and manipulation, being overworked and underappreciated, the constant exhaustion, and having so little ability to make decisions that actually benefit clients have pushed rational thinking out of the picture. I just can’t keep doing this job if I want to be even remotely good to myself.

It boggles the mind that anyone would expect me to do anything other than twiddle my thumbs until my last day in the office. What are they going to do? Lay me off? LOL.

Numbers will be revealed in the first quarter of ’26.

What are some of the signs you saw that you will be laid off soon.

Getting laid off made me realize how much time I poured into SAP, and now it feels like there’s nothing tangible to show for those years. Losing the job hurt, but losing momentum and watching skills stall or fade has been even worse, and every new ghosting after an interview just chips away a little more at whatever confidence I have left. It’s not fun on the outside.

You know how they say “it’s a blessing in disguise”? That’s what a layoff at Dell is. It’s a blessing actually.
If you want actual work, growth, no-nonsense culture, it’s better to run away from Dell.
Recently I joined a new company after my layoff and I am so happy with my work now. I actually have some growth opportunity .

AI can be very helpful if used correctly. Lot of talk that it can replace human workers. That is absolute garbage.

AI helps you do your job better. I am choosing words carefully and not saying faster. Before AI, it was hard to achieve required quality in given amount of time to complete tasks. Now with AI, you have an opportunity. You can and should still take as long as you were but use AI to achieve the quality. With AI, you have to use lot of review/refinement cycles to get to desired quality. It takes time but you can achieve really good quality deliverables.

So I say layoffs based on thinking AI will replace humans will just sink the company. But the new year is on the way and talks about 50% or 70% layoffs are surfacing. I say if they don’t think it through carefully they are highly likely to sink the sinking ship faster than fixing it. The company they paid $10 billion for, may just become 3 billion with 70% layoffs.

Should I decline my svp to Dir promotion due to layoffs ? Heard large # of MDs and Ds are on the chopping block.

1) Rebrand everything else with new logos
2) Push aggressive pricing to juice short-term revenue
3) More layoffs, because Layoff.com needs traffic
4) Double down on digital investments with no payoff
5) Sell parts of the business to fund all of the above

Happy holidays!

Given the limited options and their inflated prices, a quick layoff would be ideal.

There’s been some speculation about another round of layoffs, and unfortunately that speculation is accurate. Another round is coming soon. The core issue is pretty simple: we’re losing customers and we can't increase prices any more. When revenue isn’t growing—or is actually declining—cost cuts become inevitable.

Video has been in long-term decline for a while now. Traditional cable TV isn’t coming back, and 5–10 years from now it’s likely a dead product. The uncomfortable reality is that cable TV is still Comcast’s largest revenue stream. When your biggest source of revenue is in structural decline, the downstream impact is unavoidable.

Broadband is also under pressure. DOCSIS 4.0 isn’t delivering the results that were hoped for, and customers are increasingly choosing fiber instead. DOCSIS 4 can be talked about all day, but the reality is that customers now have real alternatives—and many are choosing fiber because it’s faster and often cheaper, or FWA because it’s easier to buy and use.

Voice (landline) is obviously a dying product, and the organization supporting it is still far larger than the business justifies.

Wireless is selling, but it’s not accomplishing what it was supposed to do—namely, reducing broadband churn. It’s true that customers with wireless have lower churn, but the causality may be backwards. Customers who were unlikely to churn in the first place are the ones signing up for Xfinity Mobile. Customers who have fiber alternatives or who are unhappy with Comcast tend not to add mobile at all.

Both the Division/Regional teams and the Technology & Product organization likely need to be reduced further. The next round of layoffs will probably look similar in size to what we’ve seen over the past couple of quarters, but unless business conditions improve, a much larger restructuring—including the elimination of entire organizations—must come sometime next year.

From my own perspective, having visibility from the Finance side: despite the cuts that have already happened, there are still significant opportunities to reduce costs. We continue to have too many resources allocated to Video, Voice, and even DOCSIS 4.0. If these products are not selling or are in structural decline, it’s hard to justify continued heavy investment. Additionally, we still pay a premium for U.S.-based engineering talent, and it’s not clear why we haven’t shifted more work to CIEC, where costs are less than a quarter of comparable U.S.-based roles.

January 22 is the announcement. Lots of projects will rush in the first three weeks of the year to get done. If you're getting unusual pressure to complete projects by that deadline, it's part par for the course, part because you're out. Those in the know and sticking around are squeezing every last minute of work from USA-based teams.

It's so big I don't know how we avoid WARN, legal must have convinced themselves that WFH = each residence is a job site. Interesting to see how we avoid WARN with RTO - only way I see is future layoffs are to remote workers.

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That’s pretty much my plan for next year. This round of layoffs was highly motivating.

Trust me
Not you

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericpalmatier_%F0%9D%97%A7%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%97%B2-%F0%9D%97%9B%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%B1%F0%9D%97%B1%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%BB-%F0%9D%97%9F%F0%9D%97%AE%F0%9D%98%86%F0%9D%97%BC%F0%9D%97%B3%F0%9D%97%B3%F0%9D%98%80-when-activity-7408270868419706880-d28j

The article says the McKinsey layoffs are a warning for the whole consulting industry in the AI age. Consulting once depended on smart people and hard to find information, but AI now does much of that work faster and cheaper. Clients want firms that can use technology to actually make changes not just give advice, so traditional strategy firms must adapt or risk falling behind.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91463039/why-the-mckinsey-layoffs-are-a-warning-signal-for-consulting-in-the-ai-age-ai-layoffs-management-consulting

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/layoff-announcements-this-year-top-1point1-million-the-most-since-2020-when-pandemic-hit-challenger-says.html

The Tyson beef plant/facility closes on January 20, 2026 in Lexington Nebraska town of 11k. This is per AP.

Not cool. Let that sink in!

Happy holidays…not.

In contemplating my future after being laid off from EJ, relying on a small severance and my depleting savings, I can see how people do something to go to prison. They will have shelter, food, daily exercise, health insurance, no utility or car payments and, I can study for a degree - even a law degree - without incurring any debt. Maybe not a bad gig....I'll have PP and DC to thank for this opportunity!

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I work in downstream engineering. The company Im interviewing with is in commodities trading. I’m not positive if I want this potential job or not, but I do want to do the interview and evaluate the potential offer. But for some reason I have this nagging that Exxon will fire me for looking at other jobs. Is that true or am I just being anxious?

Layoffs resume 1/6/26.

In a comment on a post of November 20th "Layoffs started in Toronto office...", somebody wrote that they were informed on November 18th about the termination on January 23rd, and that the package was "not like old times". Any information on the new terms of the package?

Will there be layoff? No.
But I know somebody will post this thread.
Let's just talk about it.

Final round layoffs to wrap up 2025

• Over 4,200 jobs are being cut nationwide across manufacturing, logistics, and transportation sectors, continuing a trend of industrial employment strain into 2026.
• The layoffs impact diverse areas such as EV supply chains (e.g., Ford's 1,600 job cut at a battery plant pivoting away from EV production), food processing, trailer manufacturing, and warehousing.
• These job losses are driven by structural shifts, including recalibrated EV demand, automation pullbacks, and prolonged market weakness, putting pressure on labor-intensive operations in the freight industry.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/from-factories-to-fulfillment-centers-more-layoffs-hit-u-s-supply-chains

If the rumors are true, not only will there be a major reorg with entire teams vanishing, but massive layoffs across the board too. Oh well, it’s not like I ever thought my job here was secure, and I don’t like it enough to be upset about losing it anyway.

The General Services Administration is abandoning plans for additional layoffs within its Technology Transformation Services after a federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must pause any layoffs underway and rescind layoffs issued since the start of the government shutdown on Oct. 1.

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/gsa-backs-planned-layoffs-within-its-technology-team-after-court-order/410304/

A multibillion-dollar federal delivery contract awarded to FedEx coincided with a sharp rise in the company’s use of foreign workers, even as it carried out large-scale layoffs of U.S. employees across multiple states.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fedex-wins-2-2b-federal-180028951.html

WRS had a huge Christmas party, they had raffles where apparently people won very expensive prizes. They also get free lunch everyday and I’m pretty sure that they also constantly have giveaways and raffles at the office.

Onshore? We don’t even get a thank you for working our butts of everyday, our thank you will probably be a lay off in a few months after being treated like garbage. Good thing the US jobs market is doing so great right now.

The new leadership is horrendous and it is absolutely disgusting what has happened to this company.

Confused on what the last day is if you are apart of the lay offs. I was told the 20th and now it’s the 31st. Which is it?

We were told today that our rep of 20 years of working at Verizon was let go. What type of bull sh-t is this? I would expect this from SeaWorld but not a company like Verizon.

Don’t you feel electrified by this message of Robin love? Is anyone really going to come out of this totally refreshed and ready? Do tell please.
I for one, don’t see any rest or recharge. I am going to be handholding offshore and dealing with direct client issues. I welcome being let go as long as I get full severence. And that isn’t likely. I think veterans of this place are going to be jipped on this. My manager even told me the aboves are looking to limit or stop payouts on more than 50% of those people targeted.