#layoffs

Please start preparing yourselves. It will not be small and it will not be pretty. Plus, with the job market being what it is, you need to start looking sooner rather than later to have any chance of landing something. Just a few words of advice from an old-timer who's been through an acquisition or two and knows how it goes.

Has there been more info about September layoffs?

Is this true?

I know everything seems great on paper, so why are we hearing more and more rumors about major layoffs coming before the end of the year? Can anybody with insider knowledge please shed some light on this?

Is it going to be the same as the last time? I'm hearing there might be some reductions, but I truly hope that's not true.

BNY doesn't seem interested in keeping talented employees. They're paying some truly great people to walk out the door with each new layoff. I don't understand the strategy. You pay people to join, you invest in them, and then you pay them to leave? The math doesn't add up.

Usually layoffs happen between Tuesday and Thursday (I have no idea why those days seem to be so layoff-friendly). What are the chances this begins on Monday?

Spirit Airlines' decision to cease operations in Milwaukee has led to significant workforce reductions at PrimeFlight Aviation Services. The company, which provides essential airport services, will lay off 27 employees at its Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport location. These layoffs are a direct consequence of losing a contract tied to Spirit Airlines' service. The affected employees are scheduled to be let go in early January 2026. Spirit Airlines cited fleet adjustments and a focus on profitable markets as reasons for its withdrawal from Milwaukee.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

https://biztimes.com/spirit-airlines-exit-from-milwaukee-triggers-27-layoffs-at-primeflight-aviation-services/

Milwaukee Public Schools has informed 201 employees that their positions will be eliminated at the conclusion of the current academic year. This action is a direct result of approved budget cuts aimed at reducing overall staffing. The layoffs are part of a broader plan to eliminate approximately 260 jobs within the district. These reductions were formally approved by the Milwaukee School Board earlier in March. The affected employees received official notification on March 24.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2026/03/25/mps-notifies-201-employees-their-jobs-will-end-after-this-school-year/89317717007/

To no surprise, VERP has made its annual appearance within Emerson. And, from where I stand, there does not appear to be that many older employees left at Emerson. I suspect, at least at my location, Emerson will not get the response that they need. Hence, in keeping with Emerson's long-standing practice of cooking the accounting books for appearance sakes, I would not be surprised if we see layoffs somewhere around mid-September.

Cargill's Milwaukee ground beef facility will cease operations in May, impacting 221 employees. Local workforce organizations are mobilizing to provide comprehensive support for these affected workers. Jobs Work MKE is partnering with Employ Milwaukee to offer free career workshops and direct connections to employers. These initiatives aim to help employees transition smoothly into new career opportunities. The community is committed to ensuring no worker faces this challenge alone.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

https://www.tmj4.com/news/milwaukee-county/cargill-layoffs-prompt-milwaukee-workforce-organizations-to-mobilize-support-for-221-workers

Milwaukee Public Schools is actively recruiting teachers and aides facing layoffs from Chicago Public Schools. Officials traveled to Chicago this week to interview candidates for up to 200 teaching positions and approximately 100 paraprofessional roles. This initiative aims to fill existing vacancies within MPS and reduce class sizes. The district is offering on-the-spot job offers to licensed teachers, contingent on background checks. This recruitment effort aligns with MPS's plan to enhance staffing levels before the upcoming school year.

https://www.wpr.org/news/milwaukee-schools-hire-laid-off-chicago-teachers

Oklahoma County officials have approved $4.6 million in emergency funding to prevent layoffs at the county jail. This decision followed a projected budget shortfall that jail administrators had worked to reduce through internal cuts. While the funding was approved, some officials expressed concerns about setting a precedent for future financial bailouts. The jail administrator will now prepare a regular budget request for the upcoming fiscal year. The approval process involved multiple votes and some debate among county board members.

Oklahoma City, OK

https://www.news9.com/oklahoma-city-news/oklahoma-county-jail-avoids-layoffs-with-4-6-million-in-emergency-funding

Tulsa's KJRH TV station has significantly reduced its workforce as part of a strategic pivot by its parent company. The layoffs are concentrated in roles like newscast directors, producers, and photojournalists. This move aligns with E.W. Scripps' national strategy to prioritize 24/7 streaming news over traditional studio broadcasts. The company aims to deploy more journalists into the field and deliver news faster across digital platforms. While linear broadcasts will continue, the emphasis is shifting to a digital-first model.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/state/2026/08/05/kjrh-tulsa-tv-station-lay-off-cuts-staff-as-news-model-changes/91182858007/

New Orleans is implementing significant workforce reductions to address a substantial budget deficit. These measures include layoffs, furloughs, and office consolidations impacting various city departments. Community advocates and affected employees have raised concerns about the potential negative consequences for essential city programs and services. The administration states these actions are necessary to streamline operations and ensure fiscal stability. The cuts aim to generate millions in savings to bridge the estimated $222 million budget shortfall.

New Orleans, Louisiana

https://veritenews.org/2026/01/27/new-orleans-moreno-cuts-layoffs-deficit/

September is coming in hot. Hug your coworkers, motivate and encourage each other, update your portfolios, and keep your heads up.

Google AI’s analysis/prediction for Markham lab given recent past and current goings on ..

While the physical facility at Warden Ave is legally consolidated, the internal reality for the teams working there is entirely different. The lab is being aggressively hollowed out through rolling layoffs, PIPs used as exit mechanisms, and massive offshoring to India.If things continue at the current pace, the Markham lab as a major, high-value North American development hub could effectively disappear within 2 to 3 years, functioning instead as a skeleton crew or a regional customer-facing support office.The systemic gutting of the Markham site is driven by a clear operational strategy:📉 Aggressive "Workforce Rebalancing" and Shifting to IndiaResource Actions (RAs): IBM has conducted successive waves of global layoffs across late 2024, 2025, and into 2026. Hundreds of Canadian employees across Markham, Ottawa (Cognos), and Montreal have been quietly handed packages.The Cost Arbitrage Pivot: This is a clear case of "cut here, hire there". Software engineering, development, and cloud architecture roles are being systematically closed down in Markham and backfilled by a massive hiring spree in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and South India offices. The core driver is cost arbitrage—replacing North American developer salaries with offshore engineering pools.Knowledge Transfer Demands: Multiple internal accounts reveal a strict pattern where impacted North American teams are mandated to document their processes and train their replacements in India during their notice periods to guarantee their severance.🛠️ PIPs We-ponized as Hidden ExitsForced Attrition: Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) are increasingly being we-ponized as covert exit tools rather than true improvement pathways.The "Workforce Reset": Rather than paying out standard Canadian severance packages under Resource Actions, management is pushing more strict utilization metrics and stack-ranking to push out senior, higher-earning Markham engineers through forced attrition.🔄 The Transition to Junior/AI StaffEliminating Senior Devs: Legacy product teams (including Db2, WebSphere, and security infrastructure) are seeing senior engineering talent eroded.A Different Type of Lab: IBM's stated corporate strategy for North America has shifted away from traditional software engineering. Leadership plans to lean heavily into entry-level, junior hires whose responsibilities focus less on core coding and more on client management and supervising automated AI agents.The physical building won't vanish overnight, but the engineering heart of the Markham lab is being rapidly dismantled.

I left Verizon about two months ago on my own terms, and looking back, I’m very happy with my decision.

At the same time, it’s difficult to watch former colleagues being laid off, terminated, or feeling mistreated within the company. Years ago, I never imagined wanting to leave Verizon. I genuinely thought it was an amazing company and a place where I could build a long-term career.

But over time, things changed. The culture changed, the environment changed, and unfortunately, not for the better.

I say this as a former Customer Success Manager and Strategic Account Manager who spent many years with the organization. Since leaving, I’ve spoken with others who have also moved on, and I keep hearing the same thing: leaving was one of the best decisions they made.

The crazy part? I finally understand exactly what they mean.

Sometimes walking away from something you once loved isn’t giving up—it’s recognizing that the place you loved isn’t the same place anymore.

I work in tech and want to stay anonymous but I am worried almost every day about loss of remote days or just the loss of my job.

I am hearing more layoffs from my manager on the network side coming in October. Regions will be combined to reduce head count.

I saw a post with 21 days listed as the decision timeframe. Some countries seem to be told 7 days. What’s your experience ?
Also, when is your last day on payroll if you choose the PIL? If you are eligible to retire, do you retire the day after you leave with PIL?

The Board of Directors — Dan’s bosses — wants one thing above everything else: stronger cash flow and a much leaner Verizon. And there are really only two ways to accomplish that at scale: increase revenue and aggressively reduce costs.

That’s where AI, automation, indirect retail, and organizational consolidation come into play.

As much as we joke about AI being terrible today, we’re still in the baby stages of what this technology will eventually become. Think about where AI could be 10+ years from now after years of development, training, and integration into systems like Salesforce, POS, digital sales, customer service, and account management.

The long-term vision, in my opinion, is for significantly more of Verizon’s direct sales and service transactions to happen digitally with fewer employees involved in the process.

And that brings us to retail.

I would not be surprised if we eventually reach a point where the overwhelming majority of Verizon retail locations are operated through indirect partners rather than corporate retail. People ask why Verizon would do that, but look at the economics. Some indirect locations are already producing strong numbers while Verizon doesn't have to carry the same corporate labor and operating structure behind every store.

Why own and operate the entire distribution network if somebody else can sell your product for you?

Then there's Business.

I think a major consolidation between Mid-Market and SMB — B2B, I2B, R2B, etc. — is brewing.

Instead of maintaining all these separate channels, imagine one broader organization called Business Markets, with roles differentiated primarily by account size and customer segment. It could eventually resemble the Government model: SMB and Mid-Market account managers operating within the same broader organization, potentially rolling up through the same leadership structure.

If you're wondering why accountability conversations, performance management and PIPs suddenly seem to be getting more aggressive, I don't think that's happening in a vacuum either.

When a company knows it needs fewer employees in the future, attrition becomes valuable. Every employee who voluntarily leaves — or exits through performance management — is potentially one less severance package or position that has to be eliminated during a future restructuring.

At the same time, the company gets an opportunity to identify and preserve its strongest performers for whatever the next version of the organization looks like.

That's why I think the ultimate goal is a much leaner Verizon — potentially below 50,000 employees over time, with headcount continuing to decline as automation improves.

And here's the uncomfortable part:

Verizon probably knows exactly what it's doing.

That doesn't mean employees have to like it. It doesn't mean every decision will be executed perfectly. But from a shareholder and cash-flow perspective, there is a clear logic behind the direction.

And this isn't exclusively a Verizon story.

It's happening across corporate America.

Companies are realizing they can automate more, outsource more, consolidate departments, flatten management structures and operate with fewer employees. Meanwhile, a difficult job market gives employers something they haven't had to this degree in years: leverage.

You can quit tomorrow because you disagree with the direction of the company, but there's a large pool of qualified candidates competing for good-paying corporate positions right now. Companies know that.

So when you connect the dots — AI integration, digital sales, indirect expansion, organizational consolidation, increased performance pressure and headcount reduction — these don't necessarily look like a bunch of unrelated decisions.

They look like pieces of the same long-term strategy.

The Verizon of 2035 may still be one of the largest telecommunications companies in America.

It just might require a fraction of the people to operate it & that's just facts. Hate it or love it.

Why is the TAO leader (P. M.) threatening an employee about his job security in front of hundreds of employees during her talk in Bengaluru? Why has the Board of Directors and CEO not taken any serious action? Are leaders at that level not accountable for their words and actions? What happened to Nokia being an Ethical Company? How do you think the employee who was being threatened felt after being embarrassed in front of hundreds of employees? Does she think this is a joking matter? What type of damage does this do to Nokia (brand, investors, customers, future contracts (gov't and commercial), employees, etc)? Should leadership be just as ACCOUNTABLE as any other employee?

With all the recent reports my manager now reports to India and there is a written public goal that our job is to build capability in Bangalore. How long until they fire my group? Anyone else experiencing similar changes?

Everyone is so concerned about layoffs but yet we have hidden job listings for h1bs

https://www.jobs.now/jobs/629312737-staff-software-engineer-ref-17-6831

So what does everyone think? I guess we know why Ramon always seemed to be in DC. I wonder if layoffs/offshoring will start for those folks once "synergies" are determined. Overlaps in back-office, compliance, or distribution could eventually lead to some efficiencies once integrated. More roles of Accenture. It didn't seem to move the needle on the stock price.

Why is there another huge rif scheduled in September?

Manager is not able to provide justification for the ratings he has given. he is 64 years old survived multiple layoffs , he is in same department for 26 years stil did not know basic stuff what the product his team has development.

When will the official announcement of a fourth round of layoffs be made? As part of streamlining management layers — for example, one manager per 20-person team — is it possible the cuts will focus only on management-level roles, without this reflecting on any individual’s performance?

Quarter 4 looks extremely shaky now. Sales outlook dropping like a rock. Looks like the annual year end restructuring exercise is coming up again. Sit tight.

Sacramento City Unified school board approved approximately 100 additional employee terminations. This action follows earlier authorization of over 500 layoff notices. An administrative judge recommended against this latest batch of layoffs, but the board was not obligated to follow the advice. These cuts are part of efforts to address a significant budget deficit and avoid state intervention. The district expects to rescind some notices before the end of June, but the exact number remains uncertain.

Sacramento, California

https://www.abridged.org/news/sacramento-school-board-decides-on-more-layoffs/

San Jose's City Council has approved a $5.5 billion budget, successfully navigating a $50 million deficit without resorting to layoffs. The budget was balanced by utilizing reserve funds and implementing service reductions across various departments. Key programs, including immigrant defense services and a library historical document room, received restored or reallocated funding. Savings were also identified through reduced spending on homeless shelters following encampment clearings. Despite these measures, the budget still entails $18.9 million in cost and service level reductions, equivalent to 85 full-time roles, though these will be managed through vacancies and reassignments.

San Jose, California

https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-passes-budget-with-millions-of-dollars-in-service-cuts/

Special education teachers in Santa Clara County are concerned about upcoming layoffs. Declining enrollment has led the county office of education to plan the closure of eight preschool and special education classes. This action is expected to result in approximately 31 teacher layoffs for the next school year. Officials state these layoffs are not yet final and will be voted on in June. Teachers report that existing classes are already struggling with larger student numbers and increased behavioral issues.

San Jose, California

https://sanjosespotlight.com/special-education-cuts-could-strain-teachers-in-santa-clara-county/

The whole company became a joke once Greed took over. Bad decision, horrible promotions to many young woman that were not competent to assume those roles, but Greed like his pretty young women around. Also he loved to have his "yes" men by his side. What a mess this company has spiraled into. Management used to brag about how they never laid anyone off, now its a common every other year occurrence. So top heavy with incompetent leadership that should have been the first to go, not the front line workers that actually did things. Many EVP's and VP on the sale force should have been shown the door with their useless sales tactics... and if you did not go along or drink the toxic cool aid they were handing out, you were an outcast and would never go any where in the company. I thought it would get better with a change of leadership- no because they were hyper focused on DEI and over paid HR leadership that wanted to shove their agenda down the employees throat when they should have been getting rid of most of the sales leaders in the field. Tom M. would be so disgusted with what has happened to this once great company over the last 11 years. Stay away from this toxic place, stay far away!

Lumileds is permanently closing its San Jose manufacturing facility. This action will result in the permanent termination of 24 employees. The closure is the second phase of a previously announced restructuring. These layoffs are tied to the transfer of manufacturing activities to Asia. The company's U.S. go-to-market operations will remain unaffected.

San Jose, California

https://inside.lighting/news/26-03/lumileds-san-jose-facility-set-close-layoffs-continue

In the last 2 big layoffs there were huge impacts to sales. There is no way oracle wants to disrupt the Q so layoffs will have to happen in September

TikTok has laid off 75 employees in Bellevue, Washington, primarily impacting its e-commerce division, TikTok Shop. These job reductions are part of a broader restructuring within the social media company. The affected workers were employed under the TT Commerce & Global Services banner, which operates under ByteDance. This move follows similar layoffs at TikTok's Nashville office two weeks prior. The company has been a significant employer in Bellevue since 2021, with its presence growing substantially after launching TikTok Shop in 2023.

Bellevue, Washington

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/tiktok-lays-off-75-bellevue-workers-mostly-in-e-commerce-division/

Organizers for A Night in Old San Antonio have announced layoffs. The event is preparing for a significant redesign. This "reset" is scheduled to occur next year. The changes come ahead of the event's planned redesign. The announcement was made on Wednesday.

San Antonio, Texas

https://www.ksat.com/video/ksatplus/2026/08/20/niosa-organizers-announce-layoffs-reset-ahead-of-events-redesign/

When does Fawley go and who is buying?

A significant wave of job losses is impacting the logistics industry. Over 7,000 positions have been eliminated across various companies. This trend reflects a broader economic adjustment within the sector. The full extent of these layoffs is still unfolding. Further details on the affected companies are emerging.

https://theloadstar.com/freightwaves-more-than-7000-jobs-cut-in-new-wave-of-closures/