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I'm eng4 level management, what does the severance package look like? I'll be exiting in 8 months at any rate, but I cannot find any detail on Comcast severance. Yes, I will be leaving voluntarily, but I would prefer a layoff.

A company-dominated union, also called a "yellow union," is a worker organization that is controlled or heavily influenced by the employer rather than by the employees it is meant to represent. These unions are often established and directed by management to prevent genuine, independent employee representation and are illegal under U.S. labor law, specifically Section 8(a)(2) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

In preparation for layoffs is anyone searching elsewhere? How are you finding it? If not, why aren't you looking?

As we all know, Thomson Reuters does massive layoffs every year in November. If you got a really good review on your midyear review, can you assume that you’re safe this year? Has anyone ever heard of someone getting a great review during their mid year review but still finding themselves in the lay off list that year?

Which group will be the first to go back to Hybrid work?

Getting close to the end of the third quarter. How far into October do they start RIF’s???

anyone have an update on the clover lawsuit?

Lots of rumors about a big Imperial announcement next week on Sep 29, including potential divestment to Suncor, sale of Quarry Park, etc.

Anyone hear anything?

Any news on next layoff? Is it every month or every quarter?

Span of control for directors was 20, does this apply to senior directors as well as many of them have less than this?

How many U/W employees got job offers in claims today? I heard they started rolling out and you have 3 days to accept? I was told a rough figure of around 100 today....

I honestly don’t see myself ever going back to the office. What happens if I just dont show up—would they actually fire me? Do they even track badge swipes? Is HR planning to enforce this policy ?

Everyone is saying upskill - can we share specific skills that are valuable? AI certification? Agents? What is valuable

Various rumors that he has resurfaced but not in mn - has anyone heard about the new gig

Had a recruiter ping me recently for a job with a "leading crypto" firm for grc work. Would be an 80k pay bump plus equity and full wfh. Too good to be true perhaps, but I'm doing my research.

What would you all do? I survived a few lay offs here but I know job security is not guaranteed anywhere; especially in crypto.

Mike Sicilia was the head of Oracle’s Industries Global Industry Unit (IGIU) until today, now he is the CEO of Oracle. I think he failed already. At IGIU VP/SVP titles were selected for layoff is only 5.6%, well below a commonly cited ~10% benchmark for broad reductions. Why might senior titles be less affected? We can all name plenty of worthless VPs and SVPs at IGIU. Transparency on criteria would go a long way toward trust. I don't trust Mike, do you?

Does md answer on teams ? Like if we can give him some good ideas or share with him some suggestions ?

There was a post about linking the new H1-B fee to solidifying offshoring. Post got deleted. It had some good information on how this will now make more sense for the bank to open their global capability center (GCC) in India for which they are currently shopping. I wonder why it was deleted. Creating this new post so someone can answer ;-)

Are we having layoffs in the coming week or not?

Or do they just keep bringing in external hires every time a managerial spot opens up?

Anything?

The only thing I can think of is that now I'm fully ignoring anything work related after business hours, and I used to be available at all hours while WFH. But that certainly can't be considered an improvement for the company. Is there anything you can think of?

Those who were laid of at the start of the month stop coming in tomorrow, right? I don't understand why you'd force people to stay after they've been laid off (I know I wouldn't be productive for sure) but maybe that wisdom will come with age, who know. In any case, good luck folks.

Serious question? Or Rumor?

Verizon is dying like Sprint. Bad contracts, no vision, poor leadership. Is Elon the answer?

Anyone else heading of layoffs in the US soon?

If XOM is looking to reduce HC10 headcount, why doesn't it create provide an option to let HC10 staff over a certain age (say 50 or even 48) take early retirement.

Reading all the commentary on this forum, a lot of folks may take the option? Has anyone run economics scenarios for this? At the minimum, will improve morale ...

I hope our mm colleagues with a H1-B visa returns to the states before the EOD as"an executive order on Friday requiring US employers to pay a $100,000 application fee for the visa program. The order takes effect on September 21 at 12:01 a.m. ET."

Does this mean if you currently have one and it expires chances are you won't have employment because I doubt mm will pay that price for anyone plus income.

(Sources https://www.businessinsider.com/h1b-visa-trump-executive-order-what-to-know-2025-9)

The president just signed an EO adding a 100K fee to the H1B Visa application, per year. Is that per position or per hiring company? Amazon had 10,000+ of these Visas last year. Does that mean we will see more job openings in tech?

I am 50+ and facing job search issues like anyone my age in this market after the recent layoffs. The H1b law passing perhaps will stop ageism as new grads wont come cheap as they used to

There's a proposal for 25% tax on US firms' payments to foreign outsourcing companies.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/h1b-visa-shock-first-in-double-blow-indian-it-spooked-already-by-tax-proposed-on-outsourcing-from-us-101758368109647.html

It looks like El Presidente Donald has increased H1B prices from $4,500 to $100,000 each for companies, curious on how/if this will change TIAA’s outsourcing efforts?

I just read trump made the yearly cost of a h1b visa 100k. Do we have employees on that type of visa?

Wonder what effect this is gonna have?

H1B - NO More (Yearly fee for H1B is just 100K). What will happen to 16,000 H1B Accenture had sponsored will they send them back?

Is vue being absorbed by corporate and will this result in more lay offs?

L4 engineer here, just curious why my chapter lead has a VP of architecture as their boss. Whereas other software architects have other bosses. Not sure why.

Are there any benefits if you come on as a rehire ?

No more cuts expected tomorrow?