#layoffrumor

I am actively being recruited by other companies and been around 15+yrs. With the rumors about new layoffs getting louder daily, I am trying to figure out if there is a way to volunteer? Has anyone directly asked to be laid off? How did it go?

Hearing rumours that OAL as org might not exist or will be moved. Is this path to cut more jobs?

A proposed Florida tax reform could lead to significant job losses for Martin County firefighters. Over one-third of the county's fire rescue personnel may face layoffs. Alternatively, the county could close three fire stations and eliminate specialized rescue teams. These potential cuts are slated for fiscal years 2028 and 2029. The Fire Rescue department warns of these severe consequences if the tax proposal is enacted.

Martin County, Florida

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/martin-county/2026/07/21/florida-tax-plan-may-eliminate-116-firefighters-in-martin-county/90979852007/

“We’re looking for anything they can do or say to
show they’re protecting the bottom line, they’re
protecting earnings, they’re protecting cashflow.”

RAs coming. . .

https://www.barrons.com/articles/ibm-earnings-stock-price-a3df6f77

By: Mackenzie Tatananni | July 22, 2026, 3:00 am EDT

After last week’s earnings warning sent IBM’s stock into a downward spiral, it may seem like the fate of its shares is sealed. Yet that may not be the case.

Investors already have an idea of what the numbers will look like. IBM previewed its second-quarter earnings last week—a rare move for a company that had only pre-announced earnings once before in its history, during the 2008 financial crisis.

IBM cautioned that key metrics, which will be released on Wednesday after the closing bell, would fall short. The company expects to report $17.2 billion in revenue for the quarter—behind Wall Street’s call for $17.9 billion—driven by a 7% year-over-year drop in infrastructure, flat consulting sales, and a 5% uptick in software. Adjusted earnings are forecast to come in at $2.93 a share, behind the $3.01 analysts were expecting.

Last week, CEO Arvind Krishna issued commentary around artificial-intelligence spending, saying that some customers suddenly shifted their budgets toward servers, memory, and other “supply-constrained infrastructure” to get ahead of expected price hikes.

“This dynamic impacted client buying patterns,” Krishna explained in a letter to shareholders. “While we anticipated some supply chain related impact in our expectations, we did not anticipate the magnitude of the capex reprioritization.”

Shares plunged 25% on July 14, marking their worst one-day decline ever and wiping out nearly $70 billion in market value. The stock fell 26% last week—the worst weekly performance in the company’s history.

Now, investors are questioning whether the company is facing execution issues in the face of unexpected changes, or if there are signs of a broader shift in customer behavior that IBM must adapt to. Krishna wrote that “numerous large deals” failed to close on the timelines IBM had expected, “driving the majority of our shortfall.”

The real proof won’t be in the numbers—investors already have an idea of what those will be. Rather, they’re looking for signs of future execution and commentary regarding the steps IBM is taking to recover from the quarter’s missteps.

“IBM has to show customers are still spending, the AI and software opportunity remains intact, and that management has a credible plan to get growth back on track,” Mizuho’s Dan O’Regan told Barron’s ahead of the report.

Given that IBM had been trading earlier this year near all-time highs, the selloff was partly warranted, O’Regan said. Even so, he believes the market was overlooking momentum in “several of IBM’s strategic businesses,” particularly software and AI-related offerings.

“If those trends remain intact, investors may ultimately view this as an execution reset rather than a deterioration of the long-term story,” O’Regan explained.

Although the earnings warning triggered a wave of price-target cuts, most firms aren’t changing their tune on IBM stock. The consensus rating on FactSet remains Overweight. On Tuesday, Jefferies analysts reaffirmed their Buy rating on the shares, even as they lowered their price target to $260 from $320.

For Wall Street bears, the earnings warning validated long-held doubts rather than offering a fresh perspective. BNP Paribas analyst Stefan Slowinski has long argued that the stock was trading at an unwarranted premium to the broader market.

“We’ve been concerned about valuation,” Slowinski told Barron’s. “Investors are overpaying for very low organic growth.” To counter that drag, he noted, IBM has relied on buying faster-growing software firms to artificially lift its overall profile.

“Cashflow is always important for IBM,” Slowinski continued. “It’s never good if you miss on the top line and you’re not growing, but you should protect the bottom line. Even if they do take down their full-year revenue guidance, can they keep their full-year cashflow guidance?”

From his perspective, second-quarter earnings will be a crucial test for IBM. “If they can pull some levers, that gives investors confidence that, even if the market changes and they miss on revenue, they typically now know how to adapt their business,” Slowinski said. “We’re looking for anything they can do or say to show they’re protecting the bottom line, they’re protecting earnings, they’re protecting cashflow.”

Would the all hands on Aug about layoff? or what

I am hearing all kinds of rumors about RMO layoffs but no official announcement. People are offline and meetings cancelled last minute. Anyone know what is going on?

Hearing some rumors

Stock crashed 30%, are layoffs inevitable?

Sat in on a meeting where someone mentioned layoffs are confirmed for 2 of the following months August, September, November

Any news on more layoffs and RIFs?

Anyone got any emergency meeting invite from the manager?

Heard some rumors of layoffs in ops after a new group came from risk. Any one heard anything?

Shortly to be followed with a meeting from higher ups or JF of “well we had some tough decisions to make but we are on track.”

It’ll happen cross regions, cross groups. Good luck.

Not the first time this is being reported quite a pattern now going on, but another round of layoffs under planning for late September/ early October, headcount reduction across Engineering and services due to rapid off shoring of roles to India mainly Pune.

Train your replacement in India across the next few month's and hand it your laptop will be the way this works for those to be impacted in the next round of layoffs to come.

Cryptic Town Hall tomorrow

Any info on whether Orlando will be a HUB. Or closing? We keep hearing rumors that we are definitely a HUB but then we watch as managers and reps disappear.

Any truth to it?

The rumors are getting louder about another round of cuts, possibly starting next month. Does anybody have any concrete info about it or should I just not worry just yet?

With Katz out and suddenly the budgets are still not settled again do we think reorg and layoffs are coming soon? Like realllll soon?

What do you think the odds are of another round of layoffs in the next couple of months?

We get some kind of an official indicator ahead of each round, and there's nothing this time. Call me crazy, but I won't get worried over rumors.

There were rumors about possible layoffs next week. How concerned should I actually be?

When will the layoffs pick back up again?

Has anyone hear chatter on timing?

Anytime this year?

I've been here eight months and everyone keeps talking about layoffs but I haven't seen any major ones. Did I just get lucky or am I missing something?

Anybody knows any details?

There are discussions about possible management-related layoffs next month. Has the company provided any official update on whether this is accurate, and if so, which organizations or leadership teams would be impacted? Transparent communication through official channels would help reduce uncertaint

Rumors roaring about September layoffs… Leadership wants you to keep doing your job like nothing is happening.

September Layoff - Your 6m+ time is over. Do you wish rejoin Oracle ?

Monday layoffs coming, here we go again.

Do tell.

Hot off the presses. Not really the presses; I found this out by accident via a careless senior employee. I’ll leave it at that.

Supporting Functions (Finance, HR, Legal, Gov. Affairs, Administrative Services, etc.) will see a RIF action. No timeline was mentioned. Names were not stated but roles were. Obviously I’m not going to mention those role titles because you can tell many of them are only held by one person. Eg if Nike has a role called “Director of Currency Transactions in Latin America” that probably means one specific person. I made that example up but you get the point.

It appears that like with prior layoffs there’s an emphasis on higher level roles. My surprising takeaway was the number of Director and higher positions in some of these orgs. For example one of these orgs is about 50% worker bees and 50% Directors or higher! This matches what I’ve seen in some Nike orgs where they became top-heavy when times were flush. Can’t have ten senior managers overseeing ten actual workers.

I can’t say I’m surprised. With a few exceptions I believe Supporting Functions has mostly avoided layoffs so far. It was going to be their turn eventually. Especially with those orgs that are top-heavy.

Was anyone in engineering impacted? It seems like this was mostly a retail layoff.