#layoffs

Do we know anything or are we shockingly safe for the foreseeable future?

For years, Pure Storage was an also ran compared to XtremIO. Occasionally some disgruntled EMC/Dell employee would wind up there.
Now, I’m retired now, but I see a lot of former Dell employees announcing on Linked in that they are now with EverPure. Congrats and best of luck on a long career.

Any news on SMS layoffs?

The history of the CTO or CIO or CDIO or GDIO or whatever title they go by.
Ratnakar 2024-Present
Amish Patel 2023-2025
Anil Bhatt 2019-2021
Ed Smith 2018-2019
Tim Skeen 2017-2018
Tom Miller 2014-2018
Andrew Lang 2008-2013
And each one of them brings in their own cronies.  Then they stop what were doing and we start all over with their agendas.  We never finish anything.
Meanwhile, more and more RIF's happen in the lower ranks, while they all walk away or get fired and leave with their golden parachutes.

So I am currently at Cigna, Social worker role in medical department, our entire department is being let go as Cigna is exiting the IFP/Affordable Healthcare act market. I'm currently trying to beef up my private practice in hopes of going full time so I can avoid corporate world again- BUT I have noticed openings for BH roles at Aetna. I want to hear from anyone in the BH deparment- what's it like? outrageous caseload? toxic environment? poor management? Because Cigna BH department took a massive nose dive into he-l in the last year and there is nothing in the universe that would make me go back to the BH department of Cigna. I fear it's much the same at Aetna, but if I can't get my private practice to full time then I need to have a job.

150 service reps got fired nationwide on Friday, August 14.

Compared to this same time last year, everything is trending in the wrong direction:

• Customer Success output is way down — fewer courses built, slower turnaround, more backlog.
• IA/EA adoptions are noticeably lower across multiple disciplines.
• Salesforce closed business is so far behind that leadership is blaming “CRM hygiene” instead of acknowledging the real problem.
• Faculty frustration is rising — some are openly threatening to switch materials.
• Customer Success and reps are already exhausted, and it’s not even September.

We’re running back‑to‑school with a skeleton crew and a roll of duct tape. Org chart vacancies everywhere. New hires who don’t understand their roles or the workflows they’re supposed to support. Experienced colleagues continuing to exit, and many who remain are actively looking for new careers.

And here’s the part leadership won’t say out loud:

This is NOT what Apollo wanted heading into an IPO.
Apollo expected a clean, stable, predictable back‑to‑school season — something they could point to when selling the story to Wall Street. Instead, they’re getting:

collapsing workflows
missed in‑stock dates
angry faculty
exhausted teams
shrinking adoption pipelines
declining IA/EA momentum
internal confusion about roles, ownership, and accountability

This is the opposite of “IPO‑ready.”

And it all ties back to the May 1st reorg.
The May 1st reorg removed the last wave of people who actually understood Higher Ed The people who stabilized operations, built courses correctly, managed timelines, and kept faculty relationships intact.

In their place, leadership installed a structure full of:

• inexperienced managers
• unclear roles
• pods stretched across institutions
• Customer Success teams drowning in work
• reps covering territories that make no sense
• workflows patched together with duct tape

The May 1st reorg wasn’t a “reset.”
It was a detonation, and we’re living in the blast radius.

Apollo wanted a clean runway to an IPO. Instead, they got a back‑to‑school season that looks like a controlled crash.

Employees can see it.
Faculty can feel it.
Customers are talking about it.
And the numbers reflect it.

This isn’t “a tough year.”
It’s a disaster, one created by leadership decisions that gutted the last of the real industry talent right before the busiest stretch of the year.

If Apollo thought the May 1st reorg would make Cengage look stronger heading into an IPO, they’re now seeing the truth:

You can’t cut your way to stability.
You can’t reorganize your way to expertise.
And you can’t IPO your way out of operational collapse.

The head of the Aluminium Association of Canada stated that the industry is not experiencing any layoffs. Jean Simard, the CEO, made these remarks in response to recent tariff impacts. He emphasized that the sector is not facing workforce reductions. This statement comes amid broader economic concerns. The industry appears stable regarding employment.

Montreal, Quebec

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/08/23/aluminium-ceo-on-state-of-industry-no-curtailments-no-layoffs/

Palo Alto Unified School District is confronting a $33 million budget deficit for the upcoming school year. This significant financial challenge is expected to result in substantial layoffs and difficult decisions for the school board. The deficit is too large to be addressed by minor cost-saving measures alone. The district will first attempt to minimize job losses by not filling vacant positions and reassigning current staff. However, eliminating programs, services, and jobs is likely unavoidable.

Palo Alto, California

https://nypost.com/2026/08/23/us-news/palo-alto-unified-school-district-faces-possible-layoffs-amid-33m-budget-cut/

Tyson Foods is closing its meat processing plant in Eagle Mountain, Utah, resulting in the loss of jobs for 723 workers. This closure is part of a broader trend of increasing layoffs in Utah, with WARN-eligible layoffs affecting 1,683 workers so far this year. The affected employees face difficult decisions regarding finances and job searching. Experts advise workers to process the job loss, update resumes, network, and review budgets. Applying for unemployment and understanding benefit options like COBRA are also crucial steps.

Eagle Mountain, Utah

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/08/23/utah-layoffs-what-do-when/

Cleveland Metropolitan School District is implementing significant changes for the upcoming school year, including closing 18 buildings and consolidating schools. These measures are part of a plan to address a $150 million deficit and avoid potential state oversight. The restructuring has resulted in over 200 layoffs among teachers and paraprofessionals. Despite these challenges, the district is working to ensure buildings are ready for students and has recalled 31 educators. Concerns about class sizes and textbook availability remain, but officials express optimism for a smooth transition.

Cleveland, Ohio

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/we-follow-through/cmsd-students-return-to-school-amid-sweeping-changes-closures-and-staff-layoffs

Employees at Microsoft's ZeniMax division in Hunt Valley are protesting recent mass layoffs. The company announced the elimination of 4,800 jobs, with 3,200 cuts impacting the Xbox division. Protesting workers claim the company has the financial resources to avoid these job reductions. The Communications Workers of America union has filed unfair labor practice charges against Microsoft. Microsoft stated they respect employee rights and are bargaining in good faith with the union.

Hunt Valley, Maryland

https://www.wmar2news.com/news/region/baltimore-county/hunt-valley-microsoft-gaming-employees-outraged-by-mass-layoffs

Well, here we are. Last week of August. If anyone is affected this week, or hears of other people/departments/regions affected, let's post it here and use this thread to keep each other in the loop. Good luck everyone, whether you want to be made redundant or you want to stay, wishing you the best.

everything InfoSys touches s*ck and causes more layoffs. why not just sell the company to Indians?

Do you think tomorrow is the day? I’m so tired of being anxious all the time. I’m having nightmares of getting laid off at nights. It’s draining my soul.

wondering if corp tech in nyc is effected tomorrow.

I’m considering contacting a lawyer over being laid off. Would it be worth it?

I’ve heard from M4 they plan to layoff a dozen engineers, 2-3 project managers, 1-2 managers, sales and QA. This in addition to reducing other types of resources already announced. IDC, EU and NA

The leadership that has been running the company to the ground for several years has decided the failures aren’t due to their own choices — not the years spent pulling engineers away from innovation to chase a commodity PC chip, not the fixation on edge AI while the entire industry moved toward datacenter AI, and not the pattern of entering mature markets long after everyone else.

They never prioritize, never take responsibility, and always look for someone beneath them to blame.

Now they’ve concluded that the real problem is the workforce. Their “solution” is to push out hardworking people and replace them with new hires from the industry, buying themselves another 3–4 years of insulation while nothing fundamentally changes. Because the core issue is them.

And this is the only company where one individual simultaneously controls the financial decisions, the operational direction, the business strategy, and the sales pipeline — all concentrated in a single seat, right next to the CEO. There is no separation of responsibility, no checks and balances, no accountability. When one person holds every lever, failure has nowhere to go but downward.

By 2029, when shareholders start asking why the promises remain unfulfilled, they’ll either quietly exit or invent another cycle of excuses.

Meanwhile, countless careers and families will be disrupted — while the same leadership circle continues to thrive, untouched by the consequences they created.

Anybody get any emails this weekend? That's when they've typically been doing it lately.

If anyone hears of or gets the boot, please post this coming week.

Didn't we already go thru this earlier this year? Were not enough laid off? So many teams are so thin already. How are you expected to support clients and give them excellent service if we are already so short staffed as it is? And supposedly this company wants to invest for the long term so how do you do that with more cuts? Clients are not going to be happy if there's not enough people around to make these products better and to serve them with quality and speed. Make it make sense....

They're milking the company for quick profits while it lasts. Layoffs boost stock prices and pad bonuses, even if they hollow out the company for the future. They're not clueless. They just don't care what happens after they cash out.

Was that just a rumor that was proven wrong or is there still a chance of it happening?

Five9 hires people for the next layoff round. You've got 12-18 months max. Use it wisely.

I've been here long enough to know the script. They tell you you're safe to keep you grinding for mediocre pay and benefits. The second they can hire someone cheaper, you're gone. I know because I've seen it happen. Don't believe the hype. This is experience talking.

Any thoughts on when we'll hear about more locations closings?

That's all this latest rumor is about. You buy a company, you get a chance to get rid of redundant positions, and somehow the number of such positions is always huge. As if not all of them are redundant, but were somehow marked as such because, why not use the opportunity to the max?

What's going on?

This is what happening.

Layoffs were just an occasional thing until a couple of years ago. How did we get to a point where they're now happening every few months?

How much worse off can you be than staying here if they show you the door and send you off with a nice severance package? Honestly?

Too many rumors going around to just ignore them outright. Does anybody here know anything about potential layoffs in the next month or two?

I'm so tired of being expected every few months to take on even more work because people have been cut and their work has to be done. I can't do anymore than I already do. I won't. They can fire me if they won't, but I literally can't take any more than I already have on my plate.

It'd be nice if they offered that option before involuntary cuts.

DE Shaw has accumulated a stake worth more than $1bn in Sysco, adding significant weight to the hedge fund’s long-standing investment in the US food distribution giant as the company seeks to accelerate growth and cut costs through AI, according to a report by Reuters.

https://www.hedgeweek.com/de-shaw-builds-1bn-plus-sysco-position/

That should mean we're safe from layoffs for a while, right?

With the ship clearly sinking, why would anyone join Medtronic now? Please, if you joined in the last year or two, can you share why? I'm genuinely curious.

Anything concrete?