#leadership

Change of general manager.
More extreme job cuts.
Massive loss of customers

What is Hocks plan for ESG? Slimming it down to sell or just running it into the ground so it dies of un-natural causes?

More specific questions here

What percent of people have senior leader objective and what percent have executive leader?

Given number of available positions, how many will make it their CO? Will senior leader CO people eventually end up being executive leader? What other insights should one think about?

Can the discipline managers, VPs or council people comment?

In the deregulation and AI buckets, laying people off. Which by the way, hasnt really helped with non interest expenses much. It certainly hasnt helped top line growth. And we keep missing earnings expectations.

I wonder how it will turn out now. Elizabeth Warren is probably firing up her Copilot Subpeonas right now.

Expect layoffs in organizations that were 'considered safe' over the last 12 months. Expect Senior Directors to be included in the next set of layoffs.

Pushing this to the top for info, taken from @br+1m6gvjtxg.

Hey leaders - just wanna tell you that it's not cool to lay off right before the holiday season.

We need new President and VPs. Time they paid employees properly, leaders capable of focussing on growth instead of constant cuts.
10 years of this old Management has failed DXC, new leaders required people are fed up.

What exactly are these Strategic Partner management team doing in TS&EP? Are they strategic partner management or just coordinators? How is an L10 role justified for attending meetings, collecting information and sending emails about work done by others? And then their leaders appreciate them saying great job. What a joke.

And what is happening with the Salesforce lead? Why is she trying to take ownership of all platforms? Is she planning to take over Priya’s role?

Too many senior roles, overlapping responsibilities and no clarity on who is actually doing the work. How are all these roles justified?

They just brought in a new vp of communications and integrated marketing while they just hired the president of ICT in less than a month or so. Any thoughts of what's happening in this area?

The conversation has shifted from answering “why are you still getting your a-s kicked by T Mobile” to “what are you going to do about SpaceX” he is the happiest person on earth

2027 was going to expose this fraud but I fully expect him to stay in as CEO until 2030. He will be 90 years old

I'm tired of seeing employees blame each other based on age while the executives keep getting away with everything. We're not the problem here, the people running this company are.

Cigna can't keep expecting fewer employees to carry the burden of every cost cutting decision. Leadership needs to own the situation, hire enough people, and stop treating fair pay as an afterthought.

Thought she was riding this ship through the storm?

Any they were immediately let go when he was gone when it was determined you didn’t need to pay 80 million dollars for people to run efficiency sessions. Funny their only other big clients were at PNC and BOA.

When Corrupt ML comes asking for another 80 million for efficiency initiatives, have the courage to ask if it can be done in-house

I feel like that whole meeting was a fluff fest trying to convince everyone things are fine. Announcing right at the end that there would be another VRIF was the most important part IMO.

Anyone have any details? Please share

Ram and Tara trying hard to sound positive and highlighting it is not just Pep going through this. Ram sounds and looks nervous trying to inspire. Looks like the changes coming will impact him! Sounds like he is signing off from PepsiCo.

People here have the worst TDS...

Tan Derangement Syndrome

Every hardware vendor builds or outsources utilities to expose and manage its hardware features. That's table stakes.

Dell, however, goes much further, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on in-house development and acquisitions of pure-play software vendors. The results are consistently disappointing: products that fall further and further behind the competitors, ship with persistent bugs, and are widely viewed as unfit for enterprise use.

The usual defense is that software works as a loss leader to help sell hardware. But thin hardware margins can't possibly offset the millions of dollars lost to failed product development and weak customer adoption.

So what's the real explanation? Arrogance? Ignorance? Poor engineering leadership? Poor executive leadership? Something else entirely?

How does a company justify losing millions each year to earn pennies? I'd genuinely like to hear from anyone who understands the reasoning.

155 billion and let you peasants work in peace. Nope

DP Koka's pet project HIH is the reason for all of these problems. If you want someone to blame, blame him.

Did anyone realize this is our last stock together as a company and its being paid out over the next several years! Rather than being straightforward they send some BS email that we getting it but yet we cant withdraw it now i see why all these leaders leaving like flies lol honestly being a manager now a days is not even worth it anymore all the stress and pressure

Is he the guy orchestrating layoffs?

How does severance usually break down between an IC and a leadership role?

Also, are packages trending differently this year compared to the past, and what is the actual calculation used behind the scenes?

Drop your insights!

With the unannounced west coast buyer I was wondering if the buyer was Apple? We would be a great fit into their payment ecosystem globally and bring $6B in immediate annual cash flow. Finally we would get real leadership and direction so sky would be the limit. One can dream!

The most passive-aggressive sh-t from the top. They didn't like what we said and it's payback time, bi--h.

A significant majority of American business leaders anticipate workforce reductions within the next year. This trend is driven by the integration of AI technologies and a focus on operational efficiencies. The outlook for layoffs is particularly strong among CEOs, with a notable increase in HR leaders sharing this concern. Furthermore, financial executives are increasingly involved in outplacement decisions. Severance packages are also becoming less generous as companies prepare for these changes.

http://www.staffingindustry.com/news/global-daily-news/72-of-us-business-leaders-foresee-layoffs-in-next-year

It’s really telling that he’s trying to spin that these changes are a result of the Insights Survey.

Laughable

Who wants to be the one to educate our CEO and whoever is guiding him that the term accelerate when coupled with “multi year” is an oxyMORON.

I still laugh when Hans fired all hus direct reports and announced he will run Consumer after his failed DEI hire.

I can see Dan using same playbook and run Postpaid, Value and FWA SFU/MDU line items.

Is he any good as a boss?

PNC Bank Names Brian Rudd Texas Regional Executive for Commercial Banking

https://pnc.mediaroom.com/2026-11-02-PNC-Bank-Names-Brian-Rudd-Texas-Regional-Executive-for-Commercial-Banking

The cuts keep coming, and I no longer believe the reassurances we're given. At this point, another promise that things will settle down doesn't mean much to me. I'll be looking for a way out any way I can just to get away from this mess.

Still working like it is 1990s.

Poor guy was only in the role for a year. Beware any of you newbies just starting out at Lumen. It's a good chance your employment is short term at best

You're in charge of everything - for 6 months.

In that 6 months you can implement, change, remove, add > basically do anything, at all, at any speed, and at any cost.

Name what you would do. No limit.

Why do we need so many grade-8 architects ,Engineering leaders and squad leads ? .What do these architects really do ?

I never understand bringing in a consulting company, like McKinsey, to tell management what to do. Maybe it is the wrong management team if they don’t know? Or the wrong management team if they let Comcast get into this spot. Remember, “I like the hand we have” from Dave and Steve. Or FWA will run out of spectrum or take only “value” customers. Seems like a long time ago.

Pepsi would benefit greatly and turn the ship around with qualified managers.
My manager’s style (and many others style-same club) would call you up and state something false or incorrect to see if you knew the correct answer or corrected them. It was ridiculous and demoralizing. As if anyone working for this company was actually goofing off all day with “everything “ you had to do on a daily basis to survive all the failed applications and processes that they should have been working on.

Think twice.

Summer: You are going to be the ones leading us through this transformation.
Fall: Almost entire team laid off, including the manager.

Criteria for the ones left: "low cost location".

:D