#layoffs

ADP has been doing layoffs for over ten years now. Once longtime employees start making to much money the company starts cutting jobs and rehires for cheaper labor.

Just heard of several people in support and professional services getting whacked today. Bloody Monday

After 6 months of no word, or strategy from the top level: 70% of my team just got RIFd.

The company is calling these "redundancies" however there is no way there is another team capable of carrying our projects forward.

https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employee-notifications/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-layoff-and-closure-database

Microsoft has decided to reorganize and restructure operations resulting in the elimination of 493 positions located at Microsoft’s Puget Sound facilities at One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052. Microsoft is also eliminating 112 remote positions located within Puget Sound. All 605 positions will be permanently eliminated as of September 4, 2026. Microsoft has provided all 605 affected employees with Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification. All affected employees will be terminated on September 4, 2026. A list of all affected employees, their job titles, and addresses is included as Attachment A.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-workers-tech-ceos-job-losses-afc71e15

It flopped that quickly.

fire vps and directors of all levels. get serious about earning your bonus Dan!

had a meeting with stuart before the break and he talked very excitedly about a 30% layoff due to AI investment. good luck everyone

Not sure if this has something to do with pending layoffs?

Well since they changed the timeframe of the VSP acceptance process from the 15th to the 27th, what are people actual thoughts on the extended window now. Does it mean more people than expected accepted the VSP or not enough and they want to see what needs to be done in the "resturcturing" faze of the layoffs in August. Also I want to know to anyone who accepted the VSP if things for you on a daily basis going fwd with your team is or has changed before the 27th. I know a higher level of person will be conducting the approval process, but since the VSP list is done does any of this info will trickle down to your managers ...sups...ect. I just hope people dont start getting treated diff since they are accetoing the VSP. please share if anything diff is happening for you since the deadline has passed.. TY

That's one in every five employees. 3,200 people losing their livelihoods because Microsoft fu---d up its gaming division beyond repair.

$1.5 billion is a lot of money, they'll have to compensate somehow.

I've noticed that layoffs only get announced if the affected group leaks it. Otherwise they just pretend it didn't happen. It's absurd.

RTO is working!! Way to go, John. You’re an absolute genius!! TDPs and real talent leaving at the most alarming clip in history, and all that’s left are the soon to be retirees. My, what great policy you have! Who wouldn’t want to work at a concentration camp like this?

Just retire already, you su-k, worthless POS.

I've been here eighteen years and I'm watching everything I valued about this place disappear. The good people are leaving, projects are dying, and what's left truly isn't worth staying for.

How is there a hiring freeze with new positions posted at a lower pay range? They are literally playing in our faces and it’s disappointing to witness.

I think the endless surgical layoffs and toxic environment are designed to make people quit. Don't fall for it. Make them pay you to leave if that's what they want.

Management only seems to know how to cut costs. They can't grow the business, so they just keep trimming people. But that approach is making the innovation problem even worse, which brings us back to square one. They're stuck in a pattern they can't seem to escape.

I'm on edge about whether there will be cuts this week. I wouldn't put it past them to do it just after the holiday.

I keep seeing people expect this to be over soon and that things will go back to normal. It's hard not to pity them. Normal is so far behind us it's barely a dot on the horizon anymore. There's no "over soon." This horror is the new normal.

I see people on this board agreeing about how bad things are, but in real life I work with people who don't seem to care. Nobody seems too worried about layoffs, the secrecy, or the eroding culture. How can anyone not be angry about this?

This was said by other people as well, but I have to reiterate. We've lost so many people that the rest of us are drowning. We can't lose anymore. Unless their goal is to get all of us to quit. In that case, job well done.

Today I got an email of a mandatory meeting, there is a new partnership for customer service, and if you check the news it's Hexaware, which is a company that is known for replacing staff for AI. I'm not surprised due to hiring issues but makes sense why no one has been replaced yet.

I've been trying to stay on top of what's happening but I haven't seen anything concrete. Does anyone have any updates on the current layoff situation?

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Cencora's layoffs should be a national story—not because layoffs are unusual, but because of the contrast between how employees and executives are being treated.

While employees who spent years, and in many cases decades, helping build this company are losing their livelihoods, the CEO's compensation was reported at approximately $18 million. Senior executives and vice presidents continue to earn enormous salaries and bonuses while rank-and-file employees are told that cuts are necessary.

Companies often speak about culture, values, and putting people first. Those words ring hollow when workers are shown the door while leadership continues to be rewarded at extraordinary levels. If the company truly believed that everyone should share in both success and hardship, the sacrifices would not fall almost exclusively on employees.

Other companies, such as IKEA, have built reputations for investing in their workforce and treating employees as long-term assets rather than costs to be reduced. Cencora appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

The message being sent is clear: when times are good, executives receive the rewards; when cost reductions are needed, employees absorb the consequences. Many of the people being laid off dedicated years of service to this company. They deserved better than to be treated as expendable while executive compensation continues to soar.

Bumped from @ez+1kvmc88bw for being on point.

I know that asking when the next round will happen is probably pointless because nobody really knows, nut I can never stop myself. It used to be that layoffs were rare events, but now they feel like a regular occurrence. That's not acceptable and I refuse to pretend it is.

I wish all the layoffs would happen tomorrow, just so we could move on, one way or another.

Get out while u can! It’s becoming a sheet show. Top heavy on manegment side.
Longtimers? They will cut u & replace you for half your $pay. No remorse on the Ikon side. Sheep.

I keep hearing about more layoffs coming. I know it might be nothing, but I'd rather get my resume ready and be smart about things just in case.

Will there be even more cuts?

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/volkswagen-ceo-faces-acid-test-unions-over-swingeing-job-cut-plans-2026-07-06/

I've been looking at how much my team has shrunk over the past year and it's pretty alarming. Some of that was layoffs, but a lot of it was people simply choosing to leave. I'm wondering if other teams are seeing the same thing or if it's just us.

I do. I can't believe how much things have changed in the 12 years since I joined.

I think they've been waiting for the layoffs at Xbox to start so they can start using social media again after the no physical discs announcement. This whole situation would be fu--ing hilarious if it weren't so damn sad.

Amanda Garcia-Snell, a top Portland official, resigned with a severance package. She received over $91,000 and six months of health insurance. Garcia-Snell is the sixth agency director to leave with a payout in the last year. Total severance costs for these six leaders now exceed $1 million. The city has a long-standing policy for such generous payouts.

Portland, Oregon

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/06/portland-pays-another-top-official-to-resign-as-costs-of-recent-severances-surpass-1m.html

Am I the only one getting nervous over the fact that we're still without layoffs? It's starting to feel like the calm before the storm - and the kind of storm that will be remembered for a long while. I hope I'm just being paranoid.

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/sap-freezes-hiring-travel-fund-134122456.html

An article recently published.

"SAP freezes hiring and travel to fund ’significant’ AI push - Reports"

The spending reorientation is paired with a sweeping leadership reorganization. CEO Christian Klein has personally assumed control of AI product development under a program called "Project Fuji," absorbing the responsibilities of departing board member Muhammad Alam rather than immediately naming a replacement. Chief Operating Officer Sebastian Steinhäuser has taken over Industrial AI. SAP confirmed the logic in a statement to CIO.com: "SAP is evolving its organization to accelerate its transformation toward an AI-driven Autonomous Enterprise. The new structure brings AI, data, and core applications closer together, enabling more integrated, end-to-end solutions built on SAP's unique process expertise."

"This is the second major reorganization in 2026. A March restructuring created the "Customer Value Group," and a May update established dedicated "Business AI Platform" and "Autonomous Suite" units reporting directly to Klein. The pace of internal change reflects how seriously the company is treating the pivot, and how much investor patience has frayed as the stock has slid more than 26% below its 200-day moving average of €182.43."

"Klein has been blunt about what the transformation means for the workforce. "I'm not sure if here someone in two or three years will still code software," he told The New York Times on Thursday. "I don't expect to operate with a smaller work force, but with a very, very different work force." SAP shed roughly 3,000 jobs in a 2023 restructuring and then launched a €2 billion cost program in early 2024 affecting 8,000 positions, yet has since added more than 3,500 net new roles, many of them customer-facing "forward-deployed engineers" working on AI solutions.

At SAP Sapphire in May 2026, Klein unveiled the "Autonomous Suite," rebranding the full cloud ERP stack around agentic AI, and confirmed a shift to consumption-based pricing measured in "AI Units", a significant structural departure from traditional per-user SaaS billing that could alter revenue predictability. How enterprise customers and analysts model that transition is one of the most consequential open questions heading into results."

Given this restructuring and headcount reduction info, which areas will be most prone to a mass layoff?

Hearing rumblings.

Can we at least agree on that?