#reorg

With Katz out and suddenly the budgets are still not settled again do we think reorg and layoffs are coming soon? Like realllll soon?

We have reorgs constantly, with new structures, new reporting lines, new everything and always many, many layoffs. You'd think with all that effort and all those changes, we'd be perfect by now. But nothing ever truly changes. Why isn't anyone holding leadership accountable?

Another reorg. Sold as agility, felt as whiplash. Leadership didn’t even wait for the planned date — they tore up a structure barely a year old and rebuilt it mid-year, with zero regard for what that costs the people living through it. The stated reason: “boost software deployment.” The real reason is simpler and darker.
IBM has spent years buying growth instead of building it. Every quarter, another acquisition gets folded in, rebranded as “software strength,” and used to justify the next reorg. Strip out the acquisitions, and the growth mostly disappears. This isn’t a strategy. It’s a treadmill, and shareholders finally noticed — the stock just had its worst single day in the company’s history.
The money to keep buying is running out. Debt keeps climbing. Buybacks have been frozen for years because the company is still “digesting” its last purchase. Cash meant for growth is quietly being redirected to service the last deal, not fund the next one. When a company can’t return money to its own shareholders, it’s telling you something about how thin the cushion has gotten.
And the sales playbook is exhausted. For years, big renewals were “won” by reshuffling the same contract — discount here, markup there, call it a signing. Do that once, fine. Do it a third time on the same account, and there’s nothing left to move. Customers aren’t d-mb. Many are also sitting on mountains of software they were sold and never deployed. Asking them to sign another restructuring on top of shelfware gathering dust isn’t selling — it’s asking for patience that ran out a while ago. That’s the real story behind “large deals failed to close.” It was never about speed.
So here’s what a summer reorg actually buys: nothing, fast. Territory changes take a quarter just to stabilize. Real deals take six months to a year to close. Launch a reorg in July, across a holiday season when half of Europe is offline, and demand results in Q3 — and you’ve built a machine engineered to fail on schedule.
Except failure doesn’t cost everyone the same. IBM books the reorg as a clean, one-time charge and moves on. Sellers absorb the real cost: quotas that don’t shrink to match a broken calendar, commission checks that quietly get smaller because targets were unrealistic from day one, accounts inherited mid-relationship with no memory of what was promised or already burned. When the numbers come up short, it won’t be called “the reorg cost us a season.” It’ll be called underperformance. The same event, blamed upward as strategy and downward as failure — a strategy that costs nothing on the way in and everything on the way out, just not for the people who designed it.
That’s the pattern worth naming out loud: a company that has run out of things to buy, running out of ways to reshuffle what it already sold, paying for both by quietly shifting the bill onto the people closest to the customer.
Another reorg won’t fix that. Only shipping what was already sold will.

MO advised that the company will commit to providing a date by the end of July to confirm whether roles are impacted by the new organisational design. Has anyone heard any intel on numbers, percentages, or which parts of the business are mostly impacted? It all seems very quiet… the calm before the storm.

I see the agony on this site. Many of you are uncertain about your future.

I just want to share with you. In a team call, CEO said a couple of years ago. “I love it. It’s like playing a video game, haha haha” It was in the context of managing
the business and reorganizing people. I know many of you probably we on the call. It’s really sad, but it’s the reality of the tech business. I never expected to hear from a CEO.
But, he really is transparent. Enjoys the RSUs. It all fun and video games.

Are a lot of people taking it?

Anyone the it will offered again?

What’s the Reorg look like after?

Do we think there’s going to be another reorg coming soon?

A major reorganization is coming for the SPSE team. Leadership is unhappy that too many employees don’t have clearly defined responsibilities or measurable deliverables.

I’m told 500+. New reorg.

I don’t understand what they are doing for real. Someone please explain it to me

I ain’t in America but the reorg over there has got me thinking about what happens in my region and country. Has anyone heard much? Is the USA the first to restructure and then other countries follow?

Our team of what's left after layoffs was reorganized under someone who doesn't know anything about our work. Its like Customer Service manager direct reporting high level IT folks. What in the world? Who decides reorgs? Health Solutions is horrible

Leadership and team shake up

Is it true that a reorg is coming? It seems like there’s a hiring freeze for PM partners in GBSG. Does anyone know who might be affected? When?

No GM assigned. Moving to a country model?

More shuffling around to add confusion; cuts to come during the chaos?

Has any data-driven analysis been done on caste bias in tech layoffs and re-orgs?

​I am an outsider to the Indian community, but I frequently see discussions regarding caste or community bias playing a role in tech hiring, promotions, and re-orgs. Specifically, there are claims that managers can sometimes infer a person's community or caste background based on their last name or geographic origin, and that this influences who is prioritized during layoffs or restructuring.

​Is there any objective truth or documented data behind these claims?

Specifically, I am wondering if anyone has conducted a linguistic or demographic analysis mapping tech workforce data (like last names/origins) against layoff or promotion rates to see if a statistically significant pattern exists.

After reading through some of these posts and thinking back on prior conversations I’ve had over a year ago I think I have an idea of what is going to happen.

I’ve heard for almost 2 years now that the ultimate goal was of course to bring in AI but also to merge everyone between each LOBs. Claims, UM, OPs, etc. They want one group of people for all LOBs that are cross trained and can work everything.

I’m thinking that’s what this will be. Clean house and get rid of people then reorg who is left into the 1 team per department for all LOBs.

I thought I’ve read that they have done it this way before however and that it didn’t go well? Ya know be because each LOB is vastly different?

Could this be what is happening?

If we knew that once this is all over, once VSPs and involuntary layoffs are done, we're good. We can relax, we can do our jobs without worrying. Sadly, we all know that even after all the stressing and anticipation, once this is over, we'll just move on to the next round, or next reorg, or next something that'll threaten our jobs. And that su-ks.

When will definitive info come out about Fid Wealth, specifically about the FI groups that merged in recently? Our group is so insanely understaffed that normal maint are taking well over a week and teams which used to never have calls holding regularly have 20-30 calls holding with people being told not to do any follow up or research, just answer calls. Associates leaving this group right and left. What could possibly be the goal?!?! It’s the toxic capital of 900!

Is anyone else hearing that July 7th is the "reorg" day?

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/the-worst-its-ever-been-why-metas-massive-ai-reorg-backfired-spectacularly/91363370

Rumors are about 10,000 people will be affected.

Will this involve layoffs? Or will there be mainly box moves?

Does anybody know more?

I assume we can thank the brilliance of the reorg for the absolutely abysmal network performance?

I thought the re-org was supposed to eliminate the chapter model. Why am I still reporting to a do-nothing, useless people manager?

Norco re-org on the way after $500mm in potential value found by McKinsey. So much for "we can't cut and cope our way to profitability..."

Anyone else feel like we’re no longer transforming the business, we’re transforming the transformation?

New LOB leaders. New-old CTO. CDO gone. Buyouts. New operating model. Morale in hospice.

At this point, the org chart has changed more often than the stock price.

But don’t worry. Reorg #7 is definitely the one.

OpenText stock is so low, it looks like it borrowed a time machine and went back to July 2015, probably the last time someone in leadership accidentally made a sensible decision.

After decades of people working relentlessly, building systems, carrying delivery, solving problems, and keeping the machine alive, it is truly inspiring to watch a parade of strategic geniuses take over and prove that destruction can also be executed with confidence, PowerPoint decks, and executive bonuses.

The company will survive, of course , companies like this always do. The people who built it get discarded, the decision-makers get rewarded, and families like mine get to wonder how loyalty, experience, and decades of hard work are supposed to turn into food on the plate.

But no worries . I am sure the next 'transformation initiative' will fix everything. Maybe another reorg, another acquisition, another round of cuts, another leadership memo full of brave words and zero accountability. Because apparently, when stupid decisions fail, the solution is to execute them even more relentlessly.

Lots of reorgs are coming. Lots of meetings were held today. I feel bad for those who were surplused. And unfortunately, another wave is coming in September.

Anyone know the plan for VCG Ops? Based on some reorg emails it seems like retail and CS OPS have been officially combined under the same umbrella creating even more redundencies or were taking a second stab at OPOO

The last Reorg is a massive failure, very poorly planned and executed, they will pay the price soon. Layoffs are being done in the wrong places. Instead of constant reorgs that don't work why don't you layoff all the sycophant leadership who created these strategic blunders to occur and leave the alone the IC, you will need them to rescue your org. Once you have done that look into the current ICs for talent who have vision and creativity that can lead to true innovation and not just sychophants who will do as they are told. Nah instead you will make one or two changes, shuffle around some people, but keep the same id--ts in place. Congratulations you have not changed.

Looks like the DTO LT has been recently informed of the layoffs planned for later part of the year. The DTO LT themselves are in danger as there will be multiple mergers and hence job losses at LC and higher JG levels! Not complaining as I clearly see roles force fitted that need to go. But, it's the 3rd major restructuring in last 2 years that could have been actually done in one go during TOM.
Not sure when will this stop!

Any more insights from anyone about what's going to happen at mid and lower JG levels?

Any planned re-orgs or new gossip? I heard mixed feedback. Lots of concerned employees but also many people are positive and excited. I did hear more concerns on the apps and DB side.

Who knows. People are anxious. At least people around me. I am more concerned about 2027 and what happens if the economy tanks due to sh-t that's happening all over the world.

So our TM told us today to expect a survey in the next couple of days about our interest in moving to Proximity. Said they're hiring over 600 CS jobs and over 80 Team Manager jobs in field locations all over the US. They said it was staffing neutral and if they do not get enough people they will hire from the outside. That means probably some buyout opportunities coming that way for Fire company. There will not be a lot of takers for the Proximity jobs! They will have to shed at least 300-400 Claims specialist and 40-50 Team Managers to keep it staffing neutral. With the new SFPSP program coming in and more AI, most in Fire company are done. Better get your self ready!

Anyone hearing of additional restructuring or workforce reductions in Fidelity Technology after the recent reorg? Curious whether teams are expecting further changes later this year or if the current reorganization is considered complete.

Anyone?

I have noticed several closed door meetings happening in OCI today. Would anyone know what’s it about. Layoffs/ Focal or Reorg

Was in a call yesterday where a vp said "we are locked in a room in sunbury, trying to figure out and setup the new org and reporting lines" for the capital dev team. Seems like we are "reinventing" the wheel again. Incredible waste of time and resources, whilst some leaders egos (and pockets) get boosted. So fatiguing.

BP is reorganizing @ C-level and is announcing a mega structural shake-up. New CEO announced a shift to Upstream/Downstream operating models replacing the current P&O/G&LCE/C&P structure...The prior CEO was sacked for lying to the board, had benefits clawed back, sued, then saw the lawsuit go quiet while he landed a plum director role at a Middle East-backed equity firm that promptly signed a BP JV... Wow...