#layoffs

Focus Services is closing its Greenville call center. This action will result in 94 layoffs. The closure is attributed to the impact of AI. Call centers are facing automation of routine tasks. This trend affects many call center operations.

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2026/03/02/focus-services-greenville-call-center-layoffs.html

BrewDog's UK brewing operations and 11 pubs were sold for $44 million. Tilray Brands acquired these assets after BrewDog entered administration. The restructuring led to 484 job losses and 38 UK bar closures. Small investors in BrewDog's crowdfunding program will not see a return. Tilray is separately negotiating to acquire BrewDog's U.S. and Australian assets.

Columbus, Ohio

https://www.columbusnavigator.com/brewdog-ownership-changes/

Boulder City Hospital will lay off approximately 70 employees. It is also ending several services, including patient stays over 24 hours. The facility is transitioning to a rural emergency hospital designation by May 1. This restructuring is driven by financial conditions and funding changes. The new designation provides financial incentives, including a significant annual subsidy.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/03/03/boulder-city-hospital-layoffs-service-cuts-coming-facility-shifts-rural-emergency-designation/

San Francisco aims to reduce $400 million in annual spending. Mayor Daniel Lurie proposes eliminating at least 500 city positions. This action addresses a significant budget deficit. City departments must submit new staffing plans by March 12. The specific departments affected by cuts are not yet clear.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/lurie-calls-for-hundreds-of-city-job-cuts-in-effort-to-close-budget-deficit/

Tomorrow is the big layoffs day. Can’t sleep.

1.  Do you feel like there aren’t better opportunities out there for you?
2.  Are you actively looking but still job hunting?
3.  Are you just going with the flow and not really thinking about it?
4.  Or do you have hope that the company will turn around?

Manufacturing PMIs in Europe start expanding and workforce is being cut - great move Wi--y...
Who could have thought that a former retiree CEO only has short term interest in the stock price/his options package and a majority external sourced execs board just bows - great vision for our 3M !

Will IT be hit again in this next round of layoffs

From an APJ perspective, these layoffs, while difficult, were long overdue. For years, the company carried excessive overhead in the US and Europe: overstaffed legacy teams, prolonged decision-making processes, and limited focus on high-impact delivery.
The reductions have created a leaner organization. APJ teams are now stepping up significantly, delivering intelligent, efficient work on cloud and AI initiatives at a much faster pace while headquarters adapts to the new structure.
For those affected by the layoffs: if performance or adaptation lagged, the cuts were inevitable in a competitive market. Rather than endless complaints in forums, the focus should shift to skill development or new opportunities.
The company is now more agile and better positioned for growth in 2026. APJ continues to drive strong execution. It is time to contribute meaningfully or move on.

Heard about FTE layoffs in STS around March / April. Is it true?

Looks like a wave of layoffs hit CDO Friday, EOM. Lots of people gone.. :(

Why? How many are next?

I know there’s a good bit of you on here that were let go in early December and were sent that BS separation letter to sign. My question is: if we agreed to sign it, that meant we stayed “employed” until March 31st and that would be our last day of employment and can sign up for unemployment on April 1st.

My question is: Since March 31st is our last day of employment, we would receive a final paycheck on April 15th, correct?

What do you expect to happen?

I can confirm random dismissals without consideration of overall performance or necessity for the company. More than 100 employees are on the final list across all departments.

Goodbye growth! I think that, regardless of the consequences, the wrong horse is being backed here and core competencies are being neglected in the long term.

What happened to the Wellmed IT leadership, did they all go back to Optum? I was laid off from Wellmed two months ago and I am happy to be moving on. The WM leadership face planted that business in to the ground!

Hearing the next round is that date. Massive layoff affecting retail, business sales, Frontier and network

Supposedly there's a letter floating around on Only at Lowes facebook supposedly from Mcfarland talking about every store losing an ASM. Anyone seen it or heard anything?

First Brands Group is closing its distribution facility in Patterson, California, resulting in 98 layoffs, with the majority occurring on April 4, 2026, and the remainder on April 30, 2026. This closure follows the company's September 2025 Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and federal fraud indictments against executives, contributing to over 2,500 nationwide layoffs. Read the full story at KCRA: https://www.kcra.com/article/stanislaus-county-layoff-first-brands-group-closes-facility-patterson/70563533

Does anyone know if Kroger plans to do another round of lay offs for office staff any time soon?

Hearing the next round is that date. Massive layoff affecting retail, business sales, Frontier and network

:(

So who else got the email and who got the call ???

I wish I could share more but connect with your colleagues.

I can't handle anything else right now. I'm already stretched so thin that losing my job this week would genuinely wreck me.

Dates for March?

The people they chose to cut never made any sense. Now we can't do parts of the job at all, and we're buried in the rest. It feels like they want us to fail.

I got a sparq notification that I was assigned a BSL. I checked all my other team in sparq profiles/org chart and no one else has this person listed. could this be bad news?

Run. Hide. Fight. Kiss your a@@ goodbye.

Want effiency in corp risk? Keep the workers, get rid of 75% of the managing directors. Most are just su-king time, doing as little as possible until retirement, causing inordinate amounts of unnecessary paperwork.

I saw here that union folks might get the option. If Verizon's planning another big round of cuts, even if mostly retail, wouldn't it make sense to start with VSP and then reassess? That way, people who really need to stay have a better shot, while plenty of people I know would jump at a voluntary package. I know I would.

Today Us Bank Home Mortgage gave 216 employees on the call a 45 days left notice!! It’s beginning

What’s the scoop?

So good news I hear pretty good things coming but sounds like a big package to get associates off payroll which means unfortunately a lot more managers are gonna get the rif soon

interested to see reactions from some of these points, Dell is doing great these last few days in terms of stock, but is it short lived? I keep thinking about SMCi and they just seem to have the right blueprint.

consider my thought process:

​SMCI is strategically absorbing short-term gross margin compression (6.4%) to aggressively secure physical data center footprints. Once the bare-metal hardware is deployed, this establishes a captive base to upsell high-margin, proprietary Data Center Building Block Solutions and cooling maintenance. SMCi is leading Dell in this technology.

​AI-Driven Service Transformation: The traditional, human-intensive IT service model is being commoditized. AI automation is reducing the need for massive, global break-fix support teams, neutralizing the historical scale advantage of legacy hardware providers. Dell has not shown an interest to unleash their sw devs with Ai. they buy vs invent, well, overnight the world can invent more quickly and Dell isn't investing right

​Expansion into AI-RAN and Edge Telecom: By writing lean, specialized software stacks for distributed environments, SMCI is capturing the emerging Artificial Intelligence Radio Access Network, and Sovereign AI edge markets before slower legacy systems like Dell can adapt. this is far bigger than most know.

​Zero-Touch, Self-Healing Infrastructure: Integrating agentic AI into Baseboard Management Controllers and orchestration software enables autonomous power routing, predictive failure analysis, and real-time cooling adjustments, drastically cutting the operational overhead of rack maintenance. think, more self healing, less armies of physical technical support staff needed

​Direct Liquid Cooling & Next-Gen Silicon: The thermal physics of upcoming architectures—specifically the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and HGX Rubin NVL8—mandate advanced liquid cooling. SMCI's in-house DLC engineering and rapid time-to-market provide a structural lead in deploying these dense, 100kW+ AI racks.

​Financial Disconnect & Valuation Asymmetry: Despite exceptional top-line revenue growth (recent quarters posting >120% YoY growth to over $12.6B), SMCI trades at highly compressed multiples (trailing P/E ~24x, P/S ~0.4x). The stock is structurally mispriced relative to its market share expansion in AI hardware volume. dell is now in hold territory, smci might be a huge opportunity.

​Legacy Over-Reliance on Bloated Ecosystems: Incumbent behemoths are institutionally bound to massive enterprise sales forces and heavy management software suites. These legacy structures create internal friction and require high-margin subsidization, making them vulnerable to agile, pure-play engineering firms. Dell is competing against the true lean mavericks (see what I did there). many sales folks on this, you're the champions keeping Dell going, kudos, but... change happens

​Rapid Obsolescence of Traditional Software: The democratization of code via AI is collapsing the moat of legacy IT management software, this is the real place Dell is able to macgyver the numbers. Historically a competitive advantage for Dell, but now Leaner competitors utilizing AI-assisted development can now quickly replicate and streamline orchestration layers, bypassing the traditional software lock-in of these legacy giants.

interesting time to watch... I'm long on both, but I feel smci is better suited for the long haul, I'll be getting out from Dell, selling, later this year, but not just yet.

oh and I think more layoffs are coming, so it's not too off topic

Does anyone know the cost for Cobra insurance for myself just in case a lay-off comes,then I know what to expect.

A significant layoff is expected soon on the retail side. I’ve heard from a source that leadership plans to convert up to 90% of corporate locations to indirect locations by the end of the summer.

Additional layoffs are expected in June for the retail workforce, and more stores are being converted to indirect locations.

No hikes in near future. AI assisted coding but results in work extension. Where is motivation, everyone has limit. But I feel they will put on track with structured layoffs.
Don't know when, hearing ratings gathered, restructuring in progress. Anytime soon in couple of months