#redundancy

All of legaltech engineering will be made redundant. Legaltech products go to India where they die in maintenance mode.

To anyone here that was made redundant (especially those in NI) were there any signs leading up to your redundancy? Less communication from leadership etc. or did it come completely out of the blue? Was a meeting scheduled to tell you the news last minute?

Gentact - UK layoff started last week people are maked as redundent and put into garden leave for a months. one of my friend has impacted and now looking for some legat options to handle it.

Is anyone going to tell him that he's sh-t the bed and the place is on fire? Customers complaining non stop and threatening to pull massive contracts. Huge amount of knowledge gone with the redundancies. We've all been forced to use Claude (usage limits prevent real gains) and Copilot (can't remember how to do a simple task...like having an assistant but a really dopey one who has to be told the same thing 20 times a day). Random demands from salespeople who sold products we dont have with perfect data that doesn't exist. Where does this sit? Who owns that? Everything is URGENT!!!!

Knights Group has completed its acquisition of Moore Barlow, a South East England law firm. This integration has led to redundancies among business services staff. Approximately 150 non-legal roles were eliminated following the deal's finalization. The company has not officially commented on the specific number of affected employees. No lawyer positions were impacted by these changes.

Guildford, United Kingdom

https://www.cityam.com/london-listed-knights-recent-acquisition-results-in-staff-layoffs/

Senior position being made redundant because they have absorbed role into rest of the team without any prior knowledge or discussion. This was clearly looked at while on long term absence and the person in question is not being rated against their peers even though they have more tenure and experience than many on the team. This company is unprofessional.

Any news of impacts this week?

What are the chances of these roles facing redundancy?

Seems like the new d and s model and the attrition, redundancies and retirements are starting to really hurt executives. Their planners are resigning with no backfills, they can’t staff major projects or roles and operations are struggling.

Anyone in CS or CIR been told they’re redundant yet? Very uneasy feeling in limbo waiting to receive that email from HR. Being told redundancies will start from now till possibly early 2028 is such a broad timeline. Wish these di-kheads were more transparent. I wonder what region they will start with first and if they have onboarded the Phillipinos yet … my guess is USAC is first to go in waves.

Anyone heard of any impacts occurring yet?

For both here ANI and in the States. Anyone can confirm? Have heard this from a few but would like to get more details.

Are the drip drab redundancies still happening in ANI?

I've just heard of 2 people being let go in the St Johns Canada office. Ex Inmarsat people.

1 of them I think quietly quit a few years ago, so is probably no surprise to them.

Probably more happening.

September 26 - UK Redundancies - 38 within SAP Practice

What's the rumoured redundancy package. I heard 4 weeks, 6 weeks and 8 weeks per year from all different people.

Anyone any idea what they are giving this time. Just wondering if the packages are getting worse or staying the same as the years go on.

Will there be more layoffs this year or do we think it's all over until 2027 now?

British publisher Reach plc is implementing significant redundancies, impacting approximately 220 full-time equivalent roles across its Irish and UK operations. The company announced the closure of three online news sites, including GalwayBeo, as part of these cost-saving measures. Reach plc attributes these decisions to a broader decline in the publishing industry and shifts in how audiences consume news, citing factors like AI overviews and Google algorithm changes. Despite the job losses, the company plans to create about 60 new positions, resulting in a net reduction of around 160 roles. The National Union of Journalists has strongly criticized these "relentless" cuts, calling them an "act of self-sabotage" that will negatively affect public access to local news.

https://www.thejournal.ie/galwaybeo-layoffs-7164491-Sep2026/

Have started.
Only the tip of the iceberg

Scottish game studio Build a Rocket Boy has reportedly undergone another round of job cuts. This follows the poor reception of their action-adventure game, MindsEye, which launched with numerous issues. The studio previously laid off a significant number of developers after the game's release. Despite these challenges, the company has continued to update MindsEye and even offered a free trial. The extent of the latest redundancies remains unclear.

Edinburgh, Scotland

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/mindseye-developers-report-new-round-of-layoffs-at-build-a-rocket-boy

Does this make sense. In this specific order... I think they are following this logic when deciding who to cut. Feel free to add or correct me.

• HR issues, complaints, conflcts, or employees seen as "problems"
• Low perormersperformance
• employees hated by their manager
• Duplicate / redundant positions
• Teams or functions being consolidated / merged
• Mgmt layers (cut during reorgs)
• Managers with low direct-report counts (always a target)
• Employees on sh-t/canceled/deprioritized projects
• Role not aligned to corp strategy
• Remote folks
• High-cost areas / highly comped peeps
• Older / highly compensated employees
• Recent hires (especially if their teams overhired)
• Employees w/no skills aligned with newer priority (hey AI)
• %-based cuts applied across orgs or mgmt hierarchies
• Some get selected because canning them through a RIF is easier than managing a performance exit
• Remaining selections needed to meet the final number needed

Is there a chance of me being impacted by any layoffs? I’ve been on the team a little over two months and it took me forever to get in. I do feel that there is a lot of redundancy within my team and more folks from vendors being brought in on H1B, and already having a team in India.

I’m assuming I’d be sc--wed on any severance?

You would think after the genpact announcement there would be some more stability, but nope .. they have been quietly making more people in every country redundant. Mind you, these are people with 10-25 years worth of specialised knowledge with essential roles who are being let go… only to keep the people who still don’t know what they’re doing. Seriously what the actual f*ck are wrong with these people and decision makers ?!

Again, everyone is now on edge wondering whether they will get the tap on the shoulder next, especially with all the extra focus on introducing AI and the global standardisation project for OTC (sounds like we won’t have any customer service in the future, only AI bots). I feel bad for all the customer service teams I’ve worked with over the years in EMEA, they truly work hard for their customers and now they are being forced to hand over what they do day to day for their customers to a database.

BB needs to f*ck right off please. Hope this all back fires in his face.

They can't even do redundancies decent. A total joke.

I've been added to the list. Does anyone know how much Dell Ireland are paying for redundancy..I heard 4 weeks plus 2.

Do you think private equity firm Montagu will conduct layoffs after acquiring BMC Helix by the end of this year? If so, which areas would be highly restructured due to redundancy?

That's all this latest rumor is about. You buy a company, you get a chance to get rid of redundant positions, and somehow the number of such positions is always huge. As if not all of them are redundant, but were somehow marked as such because, why not use the opportunity to the max?

Any one who has been previously laid off willing to share what the redundnacy package was? Did they pay 2,3,4, weeks per year? Etc ? I know the packages may be different globally, but trying to gage what the package is likely to look like?

Does anyone have clarity on how redundancy pay is calculated in Australia?
In Singapore, FIS paid 1 month's salary for each year of service to employees who were made redundant. In Australia, it looks like FIS is following the government-mandated rates under the National Employment Standards. Can anyone confirm if this is correct?

With cost being a big focus , do you think we may see redundancies soon?

The wait for redundancies is ki-ling me. Can they just hurry. This is soul destroying.

There appear to be significant redundancies within G-8 Tech positions, particularly across product owner, GCL, and architect roles, signaling imminent consolidation in this area. Concurrently, there is a renewed focus on tech team productivity, placing large AI teams under intense scrutiny. The prevailing sentiment suggests that data scientists are primarily producing low-value papers with virtually no impact on actual business deliverables.

Anyone based in Ireland laid off recently? What kind of payment did you get?

So Mr Exxon thinks they are the smartest person in the room; we have a country program that we think needs to lay off so many people and move to a new city uprooting everyone and their families. We think we are smart by holding them hostage for up to 2years when we may or may not decide to make them redundant (after we told them we would make them redundancy). Mr Exxon thinks he is so smart. And then everyone resigns and finds job elsewhere, institutional knowledge leaves the office and we are left with minimum collective competency and morale at an all time low. We have no other option now but to use the TCs and chaos will prevail.

For all of you here who are still waters employees enjoy the ride.
I was recently made redundant.
It is one of the worst feelings in terms of life change, people say no one died it's just a job,but it's not, to loose your job in these circumstances is devastating, I cannot put into words the mental effect this has had, yes no one has died but all your hard work and effort you put into the company are all wiped out in one moment, when you are told your role is been made redundant and you are no longer part of the corporation.
The hardest part in all this of this is why, when the corporation are still activley hiring and you ask the question what did making my role redundant really achieve, did it create synergy reduce reporting lines what did this really achieve in terms of delivering benefit, or living my legend.

This layoff is so-called cleaning house/overlapping functions....happens with mergers/acquisitions. Saw many heads hacked from top to bottom throughout my tenure and left voluntarily after 7 years.....could hear the axe being sharpened again. Turbulent times then....and still today. BUT so glad I moved on to a better/bigger life.

ANI here and just noticed roughly three months' pension contributions paid in at once. I've been here for years so my notice period would be three months.

No meeting with HR yet, but I won't be surprised if it pops up in the next few days.

Not looking good, is it?

My experience with the MBP QA team was disappointing. Favouritism seemed to outweigh performance, and quality work wasn't properly valued. Despite my commitment and contributions, I was made redundant while others with limited output remained.

I worked for MBP, including weekends when required. However, I received a sudden call from the TPO team and was informed that my role was being made redundant. I was laid off recently.

After 6 months of no word, or strategy from the top level: 70% of my team just got RIFd.

The company is calling these "redundancies" however there is no way there is another team capable of carrying our projects forward.