#overstaffed

They overhired for the model remediation. Then they promoted the managers to directors.

But there is no need for this level of data scientists. Most aren’t even doing model building, but remediation over the past 2 years and haven’t been doing data science work.

Leadership is promising AI projects, but that’s to save time to figure out what to do with this many data scientists.

Get ready for the wave. Most retail DOS’s don’t do anything anyway and offload all of their work to retail ADs. Fits the narrative of top heavy employees that provide no value or change to T.

I’m sure you notice you have targets that you won’t be able to hit as corporate retail stores have been declining for years and years now.

My SVP has about 600 directs. There are way more senior directors and managers than actual employees who do ALL the work. I’m not exaggerating. I’ve just spent an hour on teams browsing the organizational structure and I’m in shock.

Only the employees (analysts, consultants) got laid off in the recent layoffs in my org, not a single director or VP btw.

One of the senior directors had 7 directs, she has now 1. Her direct is also a director. I know them both, they spend whole days on meetings providing amazing “insights”. All the meaningful projects they were involved in are long dead, because employees are gone.

Every group seems to have an absurd number of people managing other people instead of getting anything done. Cut down the hierarchy and let the employees breathe for once.

I was severed, last day end of the year. It is amazing how many people in my department think they are safe. Maybe its just coping at its finest. They are next, department still way too bloated.

Datacenter will not save Qc. BU leadership is full of nepotism and discarded mobile product managers with zero datacenter industry experience for any prospective customers to take Qc seriously. No wonder all datacenter products keep getting cancelled and the next gen products 2 years down barely compete with current offerings from Nvidia and AMD. Moreover investment is too late and too little in front of NVDA and AMD. Datacenter will be a bigger failure than compute.
Qc deserves big layoffs with a large incompetent and non productive workforce. Most teams can deliver the same with 25% cuts skewed towards management, program managers and low performers. Software teams will get at the biggest cut in coming years with such high levels of incompetency overall and AI taking over. Bloat in Software workforce is the most recognized problem in Qc at higher levels.

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

Has anyone received a clear explanation for why certain branches have active job postings despite the staffing model showing we are fully staffed or overstaffed? Our branch currently has two open requisitions (UB and Sr RB). When asking Area Leadership, the response was simply, "We don't know, it has something to do with your branch being a training hub."

upper management has to be do many rounds of layoff because this company is over staffed with inept and useless people.

What’s the status of the re-org?

This will be the biggest reduction and change to staff at this site.

Will be interesting to see it play out.

Plenty fat. Top Heavy job roles

What is it with the amount of summer students in Wexford we have way to many, does not make sense with our targets been low

So last July I was in SIU and got forced, with a two day notice, to move to Fire Claims. It took me 15 years to get to SIU, enjoyed my job and got good level 3 & 4 ratings. I do not have any fire claims experience. I absolutely loathe Fire claims and miserable every day. This place is a total sh-t hole! So our SM was in our huddle this week and basically said we are overstaffed in certain areas in Fire claims and we should expect some changes coming soon. Going to need less people...also there will be no new hiring in 2026! I've only been out of training now for 8 months and basically what they are trying to do is fire anyone and everyone due to overstaffing. This really is a complete and total evil clueless company! Stay away and go find something else to do!

Why is Xerox still paying people to essentially do nothing? I know quite a few AR and claims jobs that require 1 person tops to do yet they still pay them...

what's up with all this vps reporting to vps?

we talk about flattening nike but keep hiring more sl.

...more heads rolling in OKC than Houston, even after 6 layoffs Devon is still way over staffed by a bunch of su-k ups doing 20% of the work and drowning the small majority doing the other 80% of the work. If this offends you, you must have gotten greater than 2% cost of living increase for being a yes man boot li---r

Where will it stop? The question becomes do you jump from the sinking ship or wait for a package? After more than 10 years in facilities it’s just a matter of time. We are still overstaffed- really don’t need the middle management level. The director Bruce could just oversee the outsource group.

Heard some rumors that the AIC might get axed down the road due to some over-hiring in California.

Anyone else hear anything like that?

Regarding the current leadership structure and task delegation within CRT.

At present, many (though not all) Team Leads appear to spend the majority of their time performing minimal administrative tasks, such as returning scorecards, while routinely delegating their more complex and time-consuming responsibilities to senior reviewers. These senior reviewers are expected to take on duties that align more closely with Team Lead responsibilities, yet they receive no increase in compensation, for this additional workload.

This practice has created an imbalance where experienced reviewers are effectively performing leadership-level tasks while being paid significantly less. It has also contributed to frustration and decreased morale among those who are consistently relied upon to carry the workload without support or acknowledgment.

Additionally, CRT appears to be significantly overstaffed with both Team Leads and reviewers. As a result, meaningful work has diminished, and employees are increasingly being assigned tasks that offer little value to production goals. This inefficiency not only wastes company resources but also undermines productivity and engagement.

These issues suggest a need to reevaluate staffing levels, role expectations, and compensation alignment within CRT. Addressing these concerns would help restore fairness, accountability, and operational effectiveness.

Got word that consumer services in E&I is next told they are “very overstaffed”.

Hot take but since Nike is over staffed why not offer a buyout option? Over 10 years and certain levels of age just let them volunteer and avoid the noise. Other companies are doing it. Google again. That would be a positive all team announcement for many. EH said he only wants people here who want to be here and that’s a great way to help navigate the crossroads.

When a wire line first liner is out for a week his counterparts cover two gangs nothing ever happens ...and the work gets covered.. when a second liner is out for a week and they have somebody covering both areas nothing ever happens and the work gets done... How can this guy not see that he has twice as many people as he needs in wireline.

Someone please explain to me how Homecare dimensions survived the cuts That department has been losing money year over year. HS terrible leadership and so many high paying positions. Therapists making full time salary over 90k and seeing 2 patients a week. Nurses that see less than 4 patients a day and a VP who has not clue what she is doing. So many employees laid off of so many departments that are needed and this department spending money like it’s growing on trees.

Based on the last round of layoffs, it seems they want to be a company of directors and managers only with minimal individual contributors. It’s like a manager has one report and reports to another manager who reports to a director… Individual Contributors move the needle and layers of managers slow progress. D-mb. Keep plugging fake numbers in your value delivery.

Create unnecessary bureaucracy, hamper innovation and significantly slow down decision making.

the return to office push is a quiet layoff.
during covid many companies massively overhired. now instead of cutting loose the talent, they’re quietly pressuring people back into offices under the guise of restoring culture.

here’s the real kicker. 73% of companies will require employees to be back in the office three or more days a week by the end of 2025. that’s nearly three quarters of businesses turning attendance into a subtle form of downsizing with no official layoffs... voila!

meanwhile employees are reminded that remote, which by the way consistently drives up retention and productivity, is on its way out. companies are reclaiming control of bodies, not necessarily delivering value… it’s a strategic squeeze, not a refocus. this isn’t about boosting performance instead it’s about trimming staff without triggering an hr mess.

and if you’re hearing more chatter about oh we want we’re an in office culture, then talking about your compensation, that my friend could be your warning. so if the execs insists you’re back 5 days a week or they’re dangling incentives for facetime, pause and ask urself: is this a culture reboot or just a quiet exit strategy.

Just look through the haze and fu-k them…

I'm not in ISG and apprently it doesn't stand for "Inside sales group" lol... But it seems like ISG is almost always hit with an iron fist EVERY layoff. Is it just so over saturated and over hired for? It feels like at this point, there shouldn't be an ISG department left anymore...