#legacy

Why is he still around? Shankar and Vivek sat on legacy systems for so so long. I remember a struggle few years ago when I wanted us to move to better new backend system but I was shut down saying they do not have budget.

I am pretty sure they wasted millions of dollars on hiring contractors to rip off Verizon.

I’m about 9 months into HCSC. I heard mixed reviews about the organization before I joined. My immediate team is friendly and professional, but it seems the company as a whole is dysfunctional. There is no accountability and no one really knows who does what. I heard before that HCSC routinely hires from outside of the health insurance industry because they can’t attract and retain specialized talent. It appears to me to be the case. It seems like there are a lot of people who have been here for many many years and lots of churn with newer talent.

Serious question—- why do people stay for so long? Doesn’t the dysfunction and lack of leadership get to you? It seems to be to a culture of complacency and sticking to a false narrative than actually trying to run an excellent business.

What happened with the big push to move everything to this “new wonderful tool”? I’ve seen a couple apps move, but it seems that forward motion stopped a couple years ago? Any insight other than funding? Seems we’re paying for both now, Service Now & legacy apps?

And noncore areas that are not aligned to growth, including legacy areas are being significantly reduced and/or eliminated and that includes areas such as business wireline, nondirectional products, technology as well, wholesale, legacy copper and voice platforms and even projects with too long of a payback. So the team has done a great job in finding unit cost efficiency as we build both in wireless and in fiber, cost for prem pass, et cetera. So there's a lot of good work being there, and that helps us get to a lower CapEx envelope, but we're very focused on being very efficient with our capital deployment this year

Looking at this article: https://www.indmoney.com/blog/us-stocks/oracle-layoffs-30000-employees-to-lose-jobs, here are the roles most affected by the upcoming layoffs:

Who Will be Impacted By Oracle Layoffs?

The layoffs are expected to primarily impact legacy software roles and overlapping support functions, while AI, cloud, and core enterprise teams are likely to remain relatively insulated.
Roles likely to face pressure

Legacy on-prem software support
Overlapping management layers
Non-core operations tied to older product lines

Roles likely to be protected or expanded

Cloud infrastructure engineering
AI and machine-learning teams
Enterprise sales and client delivery
Security, compliance, and data governance

This points to a reshaping of the workforce rather than a retreat from growth.

Head of UX Design at Strategy & Transformation was dismissed this week. Role terminated immediately. He clearly won’t be missed considering his reputation and poor legacy. What other senior roles at S&T were impacted this week?

Will anybody remember me?

As Perrigo continues to slide despite laying off hundreds of people and affecting many families they are now advertising that they will give 52 weeks pay to anyone who stays on at the Vermont site until 2027. Considering long term employees received 1/4 of that (or perhaps nothing going forward) its shameful.

https://www.samessenger.com/news/business/perrigo-georgia-hiring-operators/article_f845eed2-e6d4-400f-b38b-591e6ba0a29f.html

with the latest AI tools, people can develop a payments application in 10 minutes...
How do they explain having so many people in the office 24 x7 , and supporting old terrible products for years. any logical explanation?

They block all these AI tools from office laptops!

I’ve noticed how 3M is moving more into high-tech areas like advanced materials, semiconductors, and healthcare innovation. It makes me wonder if some of our older divisions are starting to lose relevance.

From my point of view, a few areas that might be showing their age include:

1.  Office Supplies (Post-it, Scotch)
2.  Automotive Aftermarket
3.  Personal Safety Equipment
4.  Home Improvement / DIY
5.  Traditional Industrial Abrasives

These are still strong brands, but growth feels limited compared to newer opportunities. Maybe it’s time to streamline and invest more in technology-driven sectors.

What do others think — are we holding onto too many legacy businesses, or do these still have a strong place in 3M?

What is PS legacy. Here are a few

PLC
ELT
SBU
DEI
Deep Sector
Cloud
CUSIP
Hiring Success
Stock/Shareholder performance

I just hope someone posts the decision purely driven by shareholder returns, what a shameful way to ruin a great Canadian company

Congrats to the management team in Australia, Retired and soon to be retired.

What a legacy to leave

TIAA is ruining career prospects for me. We use outdated legacy tech and things move so slowly. We have to learn tremendously outside of the job to even have a chance getting a better job. Please beware of the consequences of working here. What you think is normal here is actually insanely disorganized.

MW has been making the circuits in the media trying to act like an American Hero. His legacy is already "The Layoff King". In one interview he said he wanted to be remembered for balancing priorities. He only balanced his own checkbook and sold the future of Chevron and its employees to do it!

I thought the Innovation without disruption strategy made a lot of sense and was confident it going to work, especially with the hybrid connect strategy (allowing legacy systems to connect into new cloud services/analytics seamlessly). When PD came on as CEO, that seemed to quickly change, and any legacy seemed to become a bad word to be thrown away like garbage. I investigated what PD did at previous CEO role at Aspect, and it seemed to be a complete distain for anything legacy there as well. Only now, I see that company (Alvaria) seems to recognize the mistake and trying to restore Aspect legacy as a business after it was decimated by PD. AM seemed like a pretty smart guy and the team under him as well. They all came up with this Innovation without disruption strategy (after actually talking to customers) and I thought it was going to work. I am disappointed that the company is being flushed down the toilet now by PD.

With the massive cuts and loss of so much talent and are we setting ourselves up for complete failure in the not so distant future? Accidents are already sky high and we haven't completed the understaffing measures completely. Guess Mike doesn't care about his legacy and wrecking a historic company.

Any one in EBS, Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards impacted ?