#layoffs

Now I wish I hadn’t been so complacent and left this place long ago. Back when there were still real jobs out there…

Rumors have it that techs in Texas and Florida have really noticed a slow down in the economy. Making techs feel uncertain about their financial future. Does Texas and Florida have a NO LAYOFF CLAUSE like Californias MOA?

I think some kind of silent layoff and organizational changes are happening.

Whoever makes it through, just imagine what things will look like once the dust settles. We’ve already been under immense pressure, and now it’ll be triple the workload without the most competent and reliable people. Makes me wonder if keeping the job is even something to feel relieved about.

German industrial giant Bosch said Thursday it would cut 13,000 jobs, mostly in its auto unit, in the latest blow for the country's ailing car sector.

The auto industry in Europe's biggest economy has been hammered by fierce competition in key market China, weak demand and a slower than expected shift to electric vehicles.

The cuts, all of which will take place in Germany, represent about 10 percent of Bosch's total workforce in the country, and three percent of its staff worldwide.

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/germanys-bosch-cut-13-000-145336101.html

Has anyone heard of the layoffs at the Savannah Collins site? This site has been dying a slow death for the past two years.

300 layoffs. Not everybody at the same time. People that has been with the company for more than 10 years were let go just a few days before Open Enrollment. When staff in key positions are let go, it usually signals something beyond “normal turnover.” It could affect severance, morale, and how the remaining team should respond. HCSC is a disaster, and they are using the washington argument to do that. It is a lie! No communication at all.

@a7+1k60xsqgh said it perfectly.

Any layoffs in procurement? It was apart of WPL but got reorganized under finance now

• Virginia Mason Franciscan Health announced layoffs in virtual care services in 2025

• Layoffs linked to financial pressures and restructuring for efficiency and stability

• First Round of Layoffs (June 2025):

  • Impacted more than 100 employees
  • Specifically affected 116 workers
  • All in the virtual care services division

• Second Round of Layoffs (September 2025):

  • WARN notice filed for 24 additional positions
  • Positions also in the virtual care department
  • Layoffs scheduled to begin in November 2025

• Reasons for Layoffs:

  • Significant financial challenges
  • Increased labor costs
  • Rising supply costs
  • State budget cuts impacting funding
  • New state laws creating additional burdens
  • Higher taxes adding to expenses
  • Ongoing underpayment from government programs
  • Realignment of resources within the organization
  • Focus on improving operational efficiency
  • Effort to ensure long-term organizational stability

Looks like many folks leaving the campus

Elliot is an activist vulture capitalist investment group. They buy company stock, bleed them dry and then move on like locust. They are the ones who ruined Southwest Airlines and canceled their longstanding "bags fly free" company policy.

They bought a large position of TI Stock in Spring 2024. They wrote a letter to the Board demanding that TI cut expenses and increase stock dividends. They have been pushing for a seat on the board, but have not gotten one yet. Shortly after the layoffs began and have become a quarterly occurrence.

An aggravating factor is that Chinese backed startups have poached our customers by underselling us. Demand for our biggest product lines have dropped in half, so the layoffs are becoming more intense.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/h1b-visa-grassley-durbin-letter-tech-firms-8fe931e9

70 staff member laid off in late Sept. a lot of them through email! Absurd

3 directors laid off in TX (to my knowledge.) What's the overall status, and what areas of Medicaid are to be affected? Executing layoffs during IL RFP is just a poor move.

Starbucks is planning to eliminate 900 roles and close several underperforming stores by the end of the year, chairman and CEO Brian Niccol said on Thursday, Sept. 25.

Niccol, who became CEO of the coffee chain in September 2024, wrote in a note to employees that the two major changes are being made as part of its $1 billion “Back to Starbucks” restructuring plan.

Niccol said the company had reviewed its portfolio of stores and “identified coffeehouses where we’re unable to create the physical environment our customers and partners expect, or where we don’t see a path to financial performance, and these locations will be closed.”

Employees in the shops scheduled to close will be notified this week, and the company will work to offer transfers to nearby stores, and for those that can't be moved, severance packages will be offered, Niccol said.

He said the company will end the year with nearly 18,300 total Starbucks locations across the U.S. and Canada, and that there are plans to grow the number of coffeehouses in 2026.

More than 1,000 locations will also be renovated to “introduce greater texture, warmth, and layered design” over the next 12 months, Niccol added.

Starbucks did not provide the exact number of locations closing, but said the company’s overall company-operated count in North America will decline by about 1% in the fiscal year 2025 after accounting for both openings and closures.

In addition to the closures, Niccol said the company would be eliminating about 900 “non-retail” roles and closing “many open positions.” The affected employees will be notified on Friday, Sept. 26, and severance packages will be offered, he said.

This is the second round of layoffs under Niccol, after 1,100 corporate workers were let go in February.

“I know these decisions impact our partners and their families, and we did not make them lightly,” Niccol said. “I believe these steps are necessary to build a better, stronger, and more resilient Starbucks that deepens its impact on the world and creates more opportunities for our partners, suppliers, and the communities we serve.”

Starbucks Workers United, a union representing 12,000 baristas across 45 states, said in a news release it was sending a formal request for information to Starbucks about the closures.

“We expect to engage in effects bargaining for every impacted union store, as we have done elsewhere, so workers can be placed in another Starbucks store according to their preferences,” the statement reads. “Fixing what’s broken at Starbucks isn’t possible without centering the people who engage with the company’s customers day in and day out.”

Tell me about the great new FTO policy and tell me to use my month of PTO right before you lay me off. You knew this was coming. Hope my small contribution to your balance sheet helps because it hurts me tremendously. What a low, low, awful thing to do to your (former) employees. Glad to be gone. Pay attention NetApp employees, they do not give a #$#@ about you or what you sacrifice.

Layoff notices are expected in the second week of October. From what I know, the most impacted groups will likely be directors, senior-level engineers, and the IT team. Employees who have been with the company for more than 8–10 years may be at higher risk.

H2 sales will have its turn

Why was this not posted on WARN?
From the Illinois WARN site: Illinois WARN applies to employers with 75 or more full-time employees (excluding part-time workers) and requires employers to provide 60 days advance notice of pending plant closures or mass layoffs.

A “mass layoff” under Illinois WARN is a reduction in force at a single site of employment that is not the result of a “plant closing” and results in employment losses during any 30-day period (or, in some cases, during any 90-day period) of 25 or more full-time employees if they constitute one-third or more of full-time employees at the site, or 250 or more full-time employees.

This would seem to fit the description and require notice. Is HCSC non-compliant?

Anyone knows if Singapore will have any layoffs?

Layoffs(Restructuring) commencing on Friday 3rd October & This will be done for the next 7 Weeks (If you have no news before 1st Week of December - you are SAFE)

Layoff communication will be thru the "Specialized Restructuring Team (SRT) to the Employee thru outlook. (Earlier it was thru the CC)

Only 10 Business Days layover time (Not 15 days)

Anyone else laid off in the Chicago corp office? Applied at a financial analyst job there, I don’t know what to expect.

Layoffs run through Friday. Not in the clear just yet.

How do I escape from it? So that I can collect my RSUs - rest and vest.

The best part of being in ESG is that I’m literally shaking my legs and doing nothing. My manager does the same.

Does anyone have any update? I haven't received any message so far. Finger crossed.

It’s been made clear that some of the pending and recent “promotions” have more to do with loyalty than skill, especially in areas like Data Management and Product. RED FLAG with layoffs coming, because people who question the approach often end up on the wrong lists (look at that orgs perimeter list alone). Best advice: DOCUMENT your work, keep your head down, and be ready in case decisions are made to protect someone’s inner circle instead of the SMEs or high performers, sadly in that org it’s clear your work or having any skills don’t matter.
*** Be prepared to prove it, save everything!

Do anyone know?

This is a rumor so take it with a grain of salt

Just so people can get the info they are searching for.

All the information im seeing is everywhere but where i work, does ANYBODY know what Duncan manufacturing is projected to lose in November? Have to plan accordingly for the kids Christmas this year!

Brown University is laying off 48 employees and eliminating 55 vacant positions as part of a broader effort to shave $30 million off its budget, top leaders at the Ivy League institution announced Monday.

In August, the university blamed its financial challenges on recent federal policy changes, including an expected decline in research funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and other agencies. Prior to that, leaders warned that “significant cost-cutting” measures would be needed.

https://www.highereddive.com/news/brown-university-employee-layoffs-budget-reductions/761060/

Between layoffs, RTO, increased offshoring, and other forms of attrition, it feels like I’m standing on ground that’s slowly melting away. Great for morale, of course.

Pre Install CX pros were hit with layoffs this morning, and I’m sure other departments were affected as well. Some really good people were let go. It’s frustrating to see some of the more dedicated employees I’m sure replaced with cheaper offshore labor

Will there be any layoffs at optum at home/care at home?

It'd be weird to be quiet about this.

I’ve endured subtle and not-so-subtle racism in my years at HCSC. Microaggressions. Being talked over. Dismissed. Having to defend my competence, explain my presence, constantly prove myself. I got myself in grippy socks a couple of times due to the stress.

I reported things. I followed the “right channels.” I tried to hold people accountable, not because I wanted to be a revolutionary, but because I thought the company cared and I thought it would/could get better.

And now, as layoffs roll out, I find myself wondering: what was all that for? I fought to stay in a place that never really cared about me. Now I see people being walked out with no warning. And I could be next.

HCSC talks about values, but culture lives in how people treat each other, and how leadership responds when they don't. For many of us, the silence has BEEN loud.

For those who got laid off, did your manager/vp meet with you in person, or did it happen on a call. Was it individually or in a group? With all the org restructuring going on I’m trying to prepare for every scenario…

From what people have been reporting, the number is anything but small.

Overlake Medical Center and Clinics will cut 55 employees in November, part of a broader realignment as health care providers across Washington state contend with rising costs and reduced federal reimbursements.

The hospital system announced Tuesday that the positions will be eliminated effective Nov. 23. In addition, Overlake will leave open jobs unfilled and close its Lake Hills urgent care clinic.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/overlake-layoffs-health-care-providers-washington/281-e5e7ef14-842b-4e14-b4ff-f0ea3b3eca89