#layoffs

I know many will dislike this post, but I really do not care. I am glad Verizon is dropping all DEI initiatives and going back to merit-based practices. Good luck to everyone tomorrow. Even if we don't get a call tomorrow, I have no doubt more are on the way.

so who is being cut? is it reps, online channels, managers, assistant managers? under performing stores/reps? it’s all confusing

With all these layoffs happening tomorrow and early next year. Do we still expect for a strike to happen out in the east coast or will the new CEO settle ?

Technology Sector layoffs -

Here are the (current) numbers, year-to-date; which includes Verizon laying off; 15,000 employees next week.

2025 - Total (thus far).

644 Layoffs - 201,675 employees affected (624 people per day).

2024 - Total (for comparisons).

1,115 Layoffs - 239,101 employees affected (655 people per day).

The stock market, and the U.S. economy are (2) different things (ultimately) the stock market will catch-up.

I still project a Major Recession enroute for the U.S. economy by mid-2026 (should current trends continue).

These are the facts.

VZ CEO from 11/17/2025 In my opinion the union is done after watching this. So start maneuvering

a company that once was sold, got bankrupt and resurrected from the dead .... imagine all the cash these guys made/ will be making....

should we be suspicious ?

Will Frontier also face a massive lay off initiative?

No company wide communications from Dan since he announced the layoffs 3 weeks ago… Do we think that he’ll do a webcast or something tomorrow? Or Friday? I’d love to see what he has to say about all this.

Haven't seen any posts around that. Are managers going to call? Any one can confirm if they got documents to share? Usually that happens at least a day before?

Everyone keeps asking for specific names, which is understandable but nobody here has them…. The SVP,Vp and band5s affected were already notified - everyone else including AD will be tomorrow

Here is the bad news… someone already posted it on here, but so much stuff is being posted that it moved all the way down.

The stock together award along with the KPIs that made it up are no longer on VZ web, that is being changed up - https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaejqjzn

How many people would actually like to go, assuming they take away our stocks and Short term incentive?

Dan is cutting everything

1. Download / Save Everything

Paystubs (last 6–12)

Benefits summary (health, dental, vision)

401k + pension info

ESPP / RSU info

Performance reviews

Any key project notes or achievements (non-confidential only)

1. Update Your Professional Stuff

Résumé – add current responsibilities + measurable wins

LinkedIn – match job titles, add recent projects

List of references – 3–5 colleagues who respect your work

List of ex-Verizon contacts who left and landed well

1. Personal Finance Snapshot

Months of cash runway you have right now

Credit available (just knowledge, not use)

Monthly bare-bones expenses

Rough idea of what a severance package could extend (ballpark)

1. Devices / Access

Make sure personal email and personal phone are the recovery contacts on everything.

Ensure two-factor logins for personal accounts do NOT rely solely on your work phone or work laptop.

Save anything personal stored on your work device (photos, notes).

1. Mental & Tactical Prep

Expect tomorrow to be chaotic — stay neutral, say little, sign nothing.

If hit: take the packet home, don’t make decisions in the room.

If not hit: assume more waves and start quietly building an exit plan.

1. Download / Save Everything

Paystubs (last 6–12)

Benefits summary (health, dental, vision)

401k + pension info

ESPP / RSU info

Performance reviews

Any key project notes or achievements (non-confidential only)

1. Update Your Professional Stuff

Résumé – add current responsibilities + measurable wins

LinkedIn – match job titles, add recent projects

List of references – 3–5 colleagues who respect your work

List of ex-Verizon contacts who left and landed well

1. Personal Finance Snapshot

Months of cash runway you have right now

Credit available (just knowledge, not use)

Monthly bare-bones expenses

Rough idea of what a severance package could extend (ballpark)

1. Devices / Access

Make sure personal email and personal phone are the recovery contacts on everything.

Ensure two-factor logins for personal accounts do NOT rely solely on your work phone or work laptop.

Save anything personal stored on your work device (photos, notes).

1. Mental & Tactical Prep

Expect tomorrow to be chaotic — stay neutral, say little, sign nothing.

If hit: take the packet home, don’t make decisions in the room.

If not hit: assume more waves and start quietly building an exit plan.

The Taubman Co. is preparing to shutter its Bloomfield Hills headquarters and lay off over 100 employees in the wake of its recent acquisition by Simon Property Group, the nation's largest mall owner and operator.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2025/11/19/mall-developer-taubman-office-close-105-layoffs/87354053007/

Just think, this time tomorrow, most of this will be done.

Thank you to all those in the know, (still on the inside), who have given what you could here.

Thank you to all those, (on the outside), who have chimed in with your experiences.

Thanks to all for the wisdom, the therapy, the venting, and yes, the laughs as we all collectively process through this.

Let the fires burn hot and the whisky sting on the way down. Rock on !!!

Hey guys I report to Dean Brauer from what I understand it’s going to hit hard your immediate teams will be cut in half. So everyone your with today only half will be there next week good luck v teamers

Dan has brought a typical corporate America culture to Verizon. Long gone are the days of making a good salary, receiving a good bonus, and having a career path. This is the way it is going to go from here on out people... And I speak from experience.

1) Bonuses will be cut
2) Raises and stock benefits will be reduced (stock might be taken away)
3) Layoffs will continue. This is due to two reasons: 1) Dan wants 30% and this first round is only 15%, and 2) Frontier transition means more people on payroll and they can't be touched for x amount of time.
4) Travel will be cut and have to be approved by SVP levels. Any spending will be scrutinized.
5) Offshore jobs will accelerate. AI will take some, but they'll take the quickest path and that's moving jobs to India.

I am speaking from personal experience. I was actually told I had to take an 15% salary REDUCTION to stay with the company. This was over 20 years ago with EDS (Electronic Data Systems) and then when HP took over (sparked massive layoffs then too). Our CEO got a nice golden parachute on his way out.

Verizon has been very generous with their packages and I just don't see Dan carrying that onward. He is a axe man who will stop at nothing to squeeze out a little more profit.

I am glad I left corporate America and now make a comfortable salary in the private sector. I don't make as much money, but I am happy.. best job I have ever had and I make a difference.

I feel really bad for those being let go and for those staying. It's a lose-lose situation for everyone. Best of luck to all of you.

Just heard of a handful of long time employees that were let go.

Don’t know if it’s an official “layoff” but people are disappearing left and right. Reorg in process, and some groups seem overdue. Production line ending now. Reply if you’ve heard of actual layoffs.

1) Another RIF in March
2) Bonuses being revamped downward
3) Severance package to include one week per year of service
4) Another RIF in August

Here is what I collected so far, had to stop at 50:
Negotiating a better severance pkg?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaeqr38f
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Would somebody who's been here for less than six months get any severance?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaeh7pbj
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Non-Compete and Severance Clauses
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kady1hnr
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Verizon Layoff Severance Packages in 2025
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kacrk8ch
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My severance
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kachh1qg
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Kind of want to get the severance.
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kaca1eph
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How do you receive and sign the severance paperwork?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kac9a0t7
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How long does it actually take for severance to show up?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kac1qb0f
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Severance package or just the door ?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka72vz4y
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Is it possible to get both severance and unemployment?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka686k4r
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When is severance payed out?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka28zyww
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Which one of you got #severance-rpts taken down
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka278xkb
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Question Regarding Severance Eligibility and Service Time Calculation
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka20r3qg
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Severance package ?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9zjr205
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Has anyone declined signing the terms of your severance, to preserve your right to sue, and been offered a bigger severance?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k87enajg
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Severance package if RIF
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7y58yvt
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What was your severance?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0pj225x
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Stock together for VSPers/Enhanced Severance
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvd7qde
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any one able to access the severance url ? I am getting unauthorized error .
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqg9tpwx
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Severance payment
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1vsvnKiS
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Verizon VSP severance portal link
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uJeFEor
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Severance Received?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIM7RcO
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60 Week Severance
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uFkw999
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Unemployment in TX / RIF’d with severance
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1u8OG9kB
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For the VSP’ers, does anyone know if vacation will be paid out with the severance? Or as a last pay check prior to the severance payout?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1u186Ck8
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How much tax will they take out of the severance + bonus pay?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tZy1oie
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Historical RIF severance question
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tV6NucB
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Severance Question for NJ
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1sNYEvBW
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Any rumors on upcoming layoffs / severance package..
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1sz5YgRU
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Do new hires receive a severance package during layoffs?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1qjjYJQJ
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severance pkg
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1nlyWnwu
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No Guarantee for Severance
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1mSHrGkZ
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Thanks for the summer off and then the severance Verizon
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1mSYAQ1M
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Severance - last day
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1lGe942j
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What was the last round of severance like?
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Can They withhold your severance?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kce5s25
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Severance question
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jEqjxHN
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Enhanced severance
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1juS7MNO
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You’re not working towards your retirement at Verizon, you’re working for your severance
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtFNs4e
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Severance package?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqfT7sG
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Severance details
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jpiC0ah
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Which of these will be in the severance package?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnWT1ln
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Severance time
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1i3Le7nT
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Verizon Severance Package
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1eZWNo9G
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A New Year: get those severance packages
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1eAjGomc
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What does a management severance pkg nowadays look like? 2 weeks per yr of svc maybe?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1aTzlN2H
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Is it smart to wait for severance
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1a5NURKZ
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Should I file STD instead of accepting severance?
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/19dbgamu
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Severance Package changes
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/171FyOUj
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How does checking exempt affect my severance package
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/16Xcf1zT
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So layoffs are all over the news and now HR’s scrambling, telling us to WFH like that’s gonna fix anything. Pretty sure the media’s already waiting for clips. If I straight‑up say I’m recording the meeting, is that still illegal ? And if I did record it, what kind of questions or reactions would make it blow up online?
Trying to figure out how to make this hit hard the same way it hit me.

There was the time that if you proposed downsizing Workforce and talent to increase Revenue you would be laughed out of the room and you'd probably be let go. These are easy solutions in our short-term gains for long-term sacrifices we used to run by the notion that if you lost somebody of 10 years it takes you 10 years or more to replace that person. Then we started analyzing to how long it takes to get somebody at a basic proficiency and that's what we're targeting we can't keep PSO Partners worth anything to turn over is insane the internals that we have of such a bad attitude and are unwilling to change tactics or develop new ones all we have little to no control over partners and what they do tarnishing our brand you're the most Innovative thing was 5G well the thing was there's four G's before it so it really wasn't Innovative at all it was like the 5th sequel to a movie now a lot of us have witnessed the growth of new cell phones and smartphones and they'll probably be like the biggest business growth that will ever see in our lives and what we did with that money was really stupid there's so much we can learn from it but to have someone new from the business try to change so much so quickly as just a disaster and it's insane that the board or the shareholders would trust somebody with billions of dollars within days like literally days of being appointed but we've seen this all before huge layoffs in the past year every single time what would happen before them are people who have been executive level and above resign or retire or move to a different position that's because what was being demanded was against their core values and if it's against the core values of extremely greedy people you know it's wrong even though it might be legal.

I know I'm kind of going all over the place just trying to say that times have changed it's sad to see The Innovation is dead. But I do foresee though is possible class action lawsuits for psychological trauma because everyone's psychological well-being has not been well taken care of during this situation this really should be something that's pursued I really highly recommend talking to an employment law attorney especially if you felt any anxiety or that you've had to take time off or that things have been really hard around the home or even if you include cost from seeking treatment and if you haven't definitely look into it because your mental well-being it's worth more than what any company could ever pay you

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/frederick-brooks-mba-64521659_faith-jobs-jobloss-share-7395455444141522944-lNra? ~ Such as this #LinkedIn post with encouragement that being Laid off from #Verizon is probably the BEST thing that can happen for your career. Run!! and don’t look back ……

My manager is out and I haven’t heard anything from my AD or SD. Is that a bad sign? Am I on the laid off list?

I heard layoffs are coming for Dec 2nd - watch for a calendar appt titled “Business Update”!

I have a 401K loan, cannot repay. What to do if let go?

If I wasn't ask to work from home this week, does that mean I'm safe?

What's your estimate? What do we know? Do you think they are waiting for Q1?

Large number of layoffs and “early retirements” at the central RandD center in Research Triangle Park, NC 2 weeks ago. Whole R&D team at the site is on notice and expecting the axe to fall before the holidays

Where are the layoffs???

At Providence Swedish, the 3.8% workforce reduction will affect the system’s Seattle-based Swedish First Hill Campus, Seattle-based Cherry Hill Swedish, the Swedish Issaquah (Wash.) Campus, the Seattle-based Swedish Ballard Campus and the Swedish Medical Group, according to a Nov. 18 news release.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/providence-to-cut-446-roles-in-oregon-washington/

Layoff notices today in chief security org in ct and ga. (Great economy, we are so winning).

People have been saying the number might be much higher than what was initially reported. Anyone heard anything solid, or is it all just speculation?

That is what has been happening every single time. Great people with plenty of experience and institutional knowledge get kicked out. I never understood how that can be considered a good business strategy. I know they want to cut costs, but when you get rid of one person who then has to be replaced by two or three people to do the same job, how is that cheaper?

Or is there more to come? Best of luck to everyone impacted.

The Verizon and TMO layoff boards aren’t looking any better— in some cases they make gasp at&t look “good”. 🤦🏽‍♂️ Don’t believe me? Go take a look ……… complete shítsh0w over there.

The layoffs, announced Tuesday, affect employees across Providence’s hospitals, outpatient clinics and its insurance arm, Providence Health Plan.

Most of the eliminated positions do not involve direct patient care, officials said, but they did not indicate which services or locations would be affected.

https://www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/11/providence-oregon-lays-off-more-than-150-workers-in-latest-round-of-job-cuts.html