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The Ventura Unified School District board approved staff reductions. This impacts 46.5 full-time equivalent positions. The decision addresses a budget crisis and declining student enrollment. The district anticipates annual savings exceeding $3 million. Negotiations also include proposed changes to employee health benefits.
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/education/schoolwatch/2026/02/20/ventura-unified-approves-layoffs-budget-crisis/88747877007/
Internal documents reveal BCPS is preparing for fewer positions. Strategies involve natural departures, removing roles, and leaving some posts empty. This contrasts with public assurances from leadership. Declining student numbers and state funds lead to financial pressure. Specific teaching and administrative roles are targeted for removal.
https://www.thepaper.media/news/education/internal-records-detail-staffing-reductions-as-burke-schools-reject-layoff-label/article_21b07944-2896-4e10-a9a0-1a3f141e545f.html
Sony Group Corp. announced the closure of Bluepoint Games. The Austin-based studio was a PlayStation Studios subsidiary. Approximately 70 workers will lose their jobs next month. This decision followed a business review and new business strategies. Bluepoint Games was known for remaking classic video games.
https://www.technetbooks.com/2026/02/bluepoint-games-sony-closure-leads-to.html
Any teams impacted today?
At least ten high ranking positions suddenly eliminated from Generac Power Systems in Pewaukee, WI ( www.generac.com ) in a cost saving effort leading to reorganizing of the remote monitoring teams.
Generac CEO Aaron Jagdfelt interview in the news from earlier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4KugBjyfA
We are laying people off weekly, expecting a huge tech layoff in Q4 but we can afford to have large celebrations offsite. Wake up everyone this isn’t the old Nike anymore.
New update. Some branches will start staying open until 2pm instead of noon beginning April 25th. They are sick of paying those “free” hours when you work a half day Saturday. Also going to help more branch employees to quit so they don’t have to pay severance
Isn’t Ai great? Production reports but no evidence to prove or refute the claim.
My takeaways - our fearless CEO is just fine if a lot of us quite due to frustration. Major headcount and locations closures coming - call "location optimization" on the call
Leadership seemed to be working overtime to put any negative outcomes on legacy MRC business and the bulk of the positives on the DNOW side
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/citi-trims-china-leans-u-135008357.html
Not laid off yet, but all my projects have somehow been distributed to other teams.
How you are feeling after the recent layoffs and complete change in leadership?
Are there going to be anymore impacts today?
no , like seriously , what is even the point of this rebranding exercise? the company is already in a huge loss , like legit 75% down this year , and upon all this loss , they wanna spend on the already existing office infra to "change" the logo , what is even the point of this? also i love the fact that they alligned this EXACTLY with the layoff week and shut downt the office globally .GG.
Someone asked in the all hands, could they expect any changes to operational activities etc and Shannon said no
Looks like we are good
Mar 1st is when the funding of the US pension will be announced. What are the chances in underfunding, forcing everyone to take the annuity vs the 50% lump sum? Did they really back date the last notice when the took the 100% lump sum down to 50% option away?
Does anyone know if there will be a RIF in Q1 or Q2?
It's a ghost town on 19. They laid off the entire Marcomms team yesterday from the CMO, executive directors, social, literally everyone in GHQ and Serbia!!! This was huge because it wasn't just a few people but more like 70 or so. This seemed really personal or just fed up with a few people and decided to make the rest suffer as a message.
Lowe's recently announced a round of mass layoffs. These layoffs will impact many employees. Dozens of Georgia-based staff are affected. The company made this announcement. Georgia workers face job reductions.
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2026/02/19/lowes-mass-layoffs-impact-georgia.html
Have folks moved from New York or other high-cost locations to Tampa or Irving for Citi? Was there an implication of loyalty for having done so only to now be discarded like trash?
The Antioch Unified School District board approved a preliminary layoff plan. This plan affects about 300 full-time jobs. The district faces a $30 million deficit over two years. Layoffs aim to reduce expenses by $38 million for the 2026-2027 school year. The county office recently downgraded the district's budget certification.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/19/layoffs-in-troubled-antioch-school-district-could-affect-hundreds/
A business in Winfield is preparing for layoffs. The name of the affected company was not specified. Details regarding the number of employees are unavailable. The reason behind these job reductions remains undisclosed. Further information about the situation was not provided.
Winfield, Alabama
https://www.wbrc.com/video/2026/02/19/layoffs-set-winfield-business/
What kind of position pkg so far you got? Do you think you being treated differently in interview because you are laid off?do you think you are not been selected because laid off? Did you compromise on your pkg ,position to get a job? What do you say in interview..the truth that you are laid off?
LPL Financial announced plans to lay off 72 employees. The financial services company is headquartered in San Diego. Most affected workers will remain employed until April 17, with some through May 1. Many eliminated positions are in middle and upper management. The company previously conducted layoffs last summer.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/19/lpl-financial-announces-layoffs-at-san-diego-office/
Tulsa Public Schools announced layoffs impacting administrative staff. Fifty administrative roles are affected by this decision. The district stated the move is necessary for organizational health. Budget challenges and fewer enrolled students contributed to the deficit. Current employee contracts will be honored through June 30.
https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/tulsa-public-schools-announces-layoffs-50-administrative-roles-impacted
There’s a growing misconception that AI "does the entire work. employees are sitting and watching". In reality, AI is helper not full-performer. Still lots of development requires human efforts. Management is pushing towards AI. The problem is once work is done, you will be first one to be thrown out.
hi, i'm just worried i was saved last year with 3 rating, but i am seeing there will be other round of layoffs june, and on what bases
With the number of major IT incidents after a big layoff event, LC has his whole organization follow his EY friends' direction of making tactical work very visible by spending more time in Azure DevOps (ADO) than actually delivering work.
It's unfortunate that business leaders (as well as his own boss RB) cannot go into ADO and read the ridiculous types of features and stories that IT employees are being forced to put into ADO. A fine tool for developers has been ba----dized into an overwhelming complicated task list, with the CIO having prioritized data quality in ADO as his top item to deliver. There are literally hundreds of thousands of entries, each entry with the expectation of having completeness, with scrum masters and RTEs writing up stories that effectively means "schedule a meeting with stakeholders xyz" with a value of 10 because they had to fill in all these ridiculous fields.
How can RB be OK with this? An entire IT department wasting their lives away..
A lot of people here claim that layoffs are "random" but I disagree. I DO think that managers are told to get rid of certain types of people, though (if they are asked to submit people that is...)
AKA ultra veterans (15+ years at Dell,) above a specific age, low performers, and unliked employees.
I say this because a year or so ago, my team of 12 had two people whom were doing the SAME thing both get laid off at the same time. One was a 6 yr vet and the other was a 20 yr vet but late 50's. Both were honestly annoying af and while good at their job, were difficult to work with and not well liked by most. They were quickly backfilled.
A year later we acquire a new dude who was a Dell vet of 25 years - he was honestly weird af and just... weird lol - who was let go like 6 months later via layoffs.
This was/is a Fed team and one that isn't sales related... Fed is rarely hit with layoffs but it was very odd that THREE people were let go within an 18 month period, all on the same team...
I have zero doubt in my mind that my manager hand picked all of them to be laid off, though. Two were ultra dell vets and 50+ years old, and the other was just hard to work with.
Hey IT people that were laid off. Curious what dept you worked in. Were you CCOE, OIA, Dev, tech support? And can you share what the severance package was? Or your experience leading up to the layoffs?
Sorry again to everyone affected, but since you're no longer with the company, you shouldn't feel a need to hold back info on your previous role. Especially knowing that they let you go to hire a cheaper person from HIH or Ireland to replace you. Feel free to vent, I think it'd be helpful for everyone
Was told we’re “off cycle” for the routine layoffs. Delightful.
And yet, we know that loyalty is rewarded with a layoff sooner or later. I saw some truly great people let go, and I have zero motivation left. What’s the point?
We were informed earlier today that everyone laid off has already been called and no more are expected. How's the thing going in other locations?
I’m really struggling to understand how the DEI leadership is handling these layoffs. Even after all these job cuts, if the stock price still doesn’t reach $400, what’s the backup plan?
It’s disappointing to see a company that was once run so well end up in this situation. It feels like the leadership has put too much trust in a small inner circle led by DP Koka and his Indian friends, and now those same executives are driving these large-scale layoffs. Meanwhile, they’ll likely walk away with generous payouts, but what about the hardworking employees who are losing their jobs? They didn’t deserve this.
It’s frustrating to watch the company go through this, especially when employees are the ones bearing the brunt of these decisions that don’t give any meaningful results in the long run.
It’s hard to believe the CEO isn’t recognizing what’s happening. It makes me wonder whether he’s disengaged or possibly thinking about stepping away, because the current direction doesn’t seem reassuring.
If DP were to become CEO, I’d honestly be concerned about the company’s future. From my perspective, his leadership style hasn’t inspired much confidence, and I worry about what strategic decisions might follow. Overall, it just feels like the company needs stronger, more transparent leadership right now.
Implementation got hit today. Got the dreaded ping this morning. Do they think that they will have AI up and running by October to handle peak? Will welcome calls be a thing of the past and handled by a chatbot? AI may be cheaper, but human connection is priceless. I missed my family during Thanksgiving and Christmas, but that's the beauty of AI, they don't have families, right, Dave?
Someone mentioned in a post below that they were expected to continue though tomorrow. How is everyone holding up?
How do people get picked to get let go? I can understand performance and location. But what warrants others? Are people reviewed and discussed prior? Or is it some high up person tells each manager they need to cut x number of people?
They wiped so many people. Update your resume, find something and Gtfo. If you see an internal listing, it’s a trap. We all sat around and asked ourselves when. When is here. Good luck.