#understaffed

Billions invested in infrastructure, but fewer people to maintain it. Apparently, the strategy is to build a bigger, more advanced network with a smaller workforce responsible for keeping it running. A network is only as reliable as the people behind it. You can cut headcount on a spreadsheet, but you can't spreadsheet your way through a network failure when the experience and manpower aren't there, We operate a 24x7x 365 bizz.

Made billions but can’t even give 5 hrs OT to struggling depts during this peak season due to layoffs.

• Total revenues for the third quarter 2026 increased 6% to $73.7 billion
• Shareholders' net income for the third quarter 2026 was $1.4 billion, or $5.47 per share
• Adjusted income from operations' for the third quarter 2026 was $2.1 billion, or $7.98 per share
• Increasing 2026 outlook for adjusted income from operations' to at least $30.60 per share?
• Hosted 2026 Investor Day, introducing the "Lead to One" vision, setting long-term financial targets, including 10%-14% adjusted EPS CAGR and $50B in cumulative operating cash flow through 2030, and announcing 'Accelerate to One" multi-year $3B modernization and productivity initiative

Is there anyone who knows the number of workers they plan to layoff? Specifically in the nurse case management departments? Our leaderships vagueness while simultaneously pushing this will be a broad/large layoff is concerning. CM is eternally behind and cannot handle the volume of referrals appropriately as is and that is not something AI can fix no matter how big the investment. People have more complex diagnoses than ever and need clinically educated human support to navigate them.

Major hotel companies are reducing their corporate staff while struggling to fill frontline positions. Marriott International confirmed layoffs impacting human resources and IT departments. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts also underwent restructuring, moving corporate functions to shared services centers. Kempinski saw senior executive departures, and Sonesta International Hotels Corporation cut jobs in marketing and communications. This trend highlights a growing divide between corporate job security and frontline labor shortages in the hospitality industry.

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https://www.chinatravelnews.com/article/190967/

Whenever management runs out of ideas, we're told to squeeze more work into the same hours with fewer resources. I'm sick of being expected to compensate for their sh-t decisions.

We keep losing people, but apparently nobody at the top thinks anything should change. The same deadlines, the same targets, the same expectations, just fewer people available to handle them. I'm tired of being told to make it work when management keeps making the situation worse. They need to explain how this is supposed to be sustainable.

This is unreal to me, and I’m having to cover nearly all of these, and that’s not including the PTO I’m covering! Did merchandisers always call out this much?!

After more than three years here, I hardly recognize the way my store is run. We're short staffed, nobody tells us what's going on, and the raises we've been promised still haven't happened. Is this the case all around?

Cigna can't keep expecting fewer employees to carry the burden of every cost cutting decision. Leadership needs to own the situation, hire enough people, and stop treating fair pay as an afterthought.

What's wrong with Disney? Most of us are overworked as it is. Why do they think they can keep cutting and everything will stay the same? Same amount of work on fewer and fewer people is not a sustainable strategy.

If layoffs are the main way a company improves its financial results, something is wrong with its business model. Eventually, there won't be enough people left here to keep things running properly.

They eliminated half our team and seem to think the rest of us can magically absorb everyone's responsibilities. We've agreed not to let them turn their staffing decision into our unpaid overtime.

I've spent months picking up extra work while my team keeps losing people, and this latest layoff has finally pushed me over the edge. I don't see a reason to keep giving everything to leaders who won't support the people doing the work.

Some teams are now down to a quarter of their original size.

I see the ecosystem is depleting and strained.

Cross-training has become an excuse for poor staffing decisions. Rather than hiring enough people to adequately cover the workload, management continually adds responsibilities to existing employees and calls it versatility. The result is an overwhelmed workforce, diluted attention, increased errors, burnout, and an unhealthy work environment.

You cannot keep adding roles, responsibilities, and expectations without adding resources. Employees are not an unlimited staffing solution, and expecting them to function as multiple positions simultaneously is not good management. It's cost-cutting at the expense of the people doing the work.

Four capable team members with roughly a century of experience between them have been let go, and our leadership team has been cut in half too. The rest of us were already working 50+ hour weeks, so I don't know how we're supposed to manage this going forward.

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.

Doing the job of three people for the pay of one is not what I signed up for in the first place. I really wanted to work at Disney and getting this job was a dream come true. Boy, was I disillusioned fast. One big family my a-s. It's a well oiled employee-using machine that doesn't give a damn about you.

Folks who left their projects were not backfilled - OK, I guess that's the point of layoffs - good job execs. But work continued with CIEC team members joining instead... Is that happening elsewhere? If your team was cut - what work stopped???? What moved to another group??? What landed on the people still here??? This whole thing makes no sense to me.

Walgreens is currently facing a shortage of store managers. This staffing issue has resulted in increased stress and demands on existing employees, as they are often required to take on additional responsibilities without adequate support.

Impact on Employees
Increased Workload: Existing staff may experience heightened pressure due to understaffing.
Employee Stress: Many employees report feeling overwhelmed by the expectations placed on them, which can lead to a challenging work environment.
Reasons for the Shortage
High Turnover Rates: The demanding nature of the job and unrealistic performance goals contribute to turnover.
Recruitment Challenges: Attracting qualified candidates for management positions has become increasingly difficult.
This shortage not only affects store operations but also impacts employee morale and customer service quality.

Layoffs started, not sure how widespread. There’s not that many more people they can cut on the US side, we’re already down to skeleton crews.
At least around 10 people let go so far.

So the plan was not to consolidate teams after cuts, it was to half them and then have those who're still here pick up all the work. I've been ki-ling myself at work since the last layoff and I'm about done. Sc--w whoever thought this would be a sustainable model.

I'm now done even trying. I'll do what can be done with the time and resources I have. being fired is preferable to the pressure of trying to stay on top of things when they keep adding new things to my already full plate all the time.

Pay now or face shutdown due to lack of workers because of layoffs

BM stated quarterly sales and trading revenue would be “flat” relative to a year ago. Just like that, BAC stock dropped over 5 percent. Revenue is not the only thing going "flat" at BAC. Has any group gained any new hires to make up for short staffing? In our group, another person just announced retirement and no replacement will be requested. Yep, "flat" everywhere at BAC to include our paychecks...

Just heard about a couple more including hipos.

That’s 7 (or 8?) in last couple months and many are strong performing mid career. A bunch more almost out as the ones who left are recruiting others to go. As well several people just waiting for confirmation of disappointing news in December (no salary , no promos even with outstanding or excellent performance.)

Will be interesting since GP doesn’t have the people to do the upcoming projects and it’s only getting worse.

Do you think GP SLT recognizes this or will do anything? Or maybe this is exactly what they want!

Anyone in Houston have some insights?!?

They can't keep new hires. Employees are retiring and quitting. Everyone hates it. Not enough employees to do the work. Everyone is tied to their desk with constant threats on idle time. Constant changes being implemented making it impossible to keep up. Your expected to take all your calls and still get your work done which is impossible with the amount of calls coming in. The micromanaging is tremendous. Its complete missery. Instead of firing those that need it, they make their good employees miserable. The good employees are constantly having to do others work. The burnout is real. I'm planning to Ieave as soon as I can.

most teams understaffed, then on top of that MLRP PIP and insulting feedback from those who know nothing about the subject matter every year, depressing campus environment, constant turning employees against eachother all for 1-2 % hikes, what is the point? who is actually doing any work? is any work needed? then constant quitting of people, constant hiring, no stability, manager changes ,role changes org changes , staffing process change, polaris change, this change that change — how are we all just pretending this is normal? where are the human leader voices?

They always want us to do more with less. Until there's nothing left to give.

My number has come up. Funny thing is our team was completely swamped and overworked on a skeleton crew already. Director made sure her friend circle kept their roles which will fall in her face in two years when half the ones they kept retire and the other half are incompetent.

Best of luck everyone. I’m going to reset my nervous system from this place and try to forget these past few years happened.

How understaffed is your team due to recent cut. Nobody on my team is doing under 50hr/wk. This is not sustainable.

We desperately need more people instead of fewer. Do they not realize that there's only so much each of us still here can take?

Customers are not getting answers for weeks and months,
Issues not resolved and accumulating.
They thought Ai will resolve all issues for them and replace staff.
The remaining teams are understaffed.

It’s absolutely ridiculous that the phone queues have had a red alert almost daily for months now. Send another email about how we are the best place to work based off bogus surveys and more emails about record breaking profits while merit increase you’re lucky to see 2%. He-l they used to give us Amazon and door dash cards. Now it’s nothing .

Been noticing that entire teams have disappeared and replaced by an AI Jira agent. Which means the work usually taken care of by that team is now my responsibility. How am I supposed to be efficient if I am a single person doing HR work, IT work and then my core work?

Lost another team member in TX today in Tech. wonder how many more today across and what sites? Do more with less!

As a result of all this bs and the way its been handled. I truely feel those of us left standing will be quite quitters as many of our teams were already understaffed and drowning in back logged work with NO expectations of receiving additional support only bs promises of relief never to come. I regret not taking the VSP option at least I could have started to heal from the decades of mental trauma this company has put me and others through.

In the last three months we have been paid late once & have had our pensions messed up. Colleagues are leaving on mass, nobody is being replaced, we are expected to do more work without any benefits or reward and some colleagues are overloaded with that much work I’m surprised they haven’t left already. The company is a disgrace from top to bottom & the wage I receive with the responsibilities I / we is nothing short of scandalous. If you do a good job you get penalised & can’t pursue other opportunities, I have the mind to stop all my extra clearances & do the bare minimum. I used to enjoy working for DXC but every week gets worse, it genuinely feels like he-l, and the day I leave this torrid company will be the best day of my working life by far. I know that the majority of my colleagues are seeking new jobs & hopefully a load of us leave at once leaving a massive mess & for the system to collapse. If you are thinking of working for DXC don’t plan to stay here for more than two or three years otherwise it will become utterly unbearable & you will hate every single day.

What job should I go for next? One in a supermarket or a bin man? I’ll get paid more either way, I’ll have less responsibilities & I won’t be at risking of going to prison if I mess up.