#workforcereduction

Total 2,035 headcount reduction

5 countries headcount got the most impacted

USA 763
China 328
India 294
Brazil 59
Malaysia 43

LE quote from the results call today

“ Well, I think we have substantial advantages because we are an infrastructure company and we are an application company. There are 2 things that happen. As an application company, we needed -- we knew we had to start generating our applications. We just couldn't do it with armies of people anymore. We still need people, don't get me wrong. But the number of people we need is substantially less. And we can build/generate much better applications than we can hand build. And we've been working on these AI application generators for some time, and we're actually using them.”

Might explain the rif. But has anyone seen these magical application generators that will replace the Fusion devs at scale and with security and zero bugs while not breaking anything on a deploy?

Anyone want to comment how we won’t miss the dearly departed staff?

https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/10/The_Bluewashing_of_Red_Hat_is_Being_Completed_Many_Staff_Unders.shtml

https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/10/The_Bluewashing_of_Red_Hat_is_Being_Completed_Many_Staff_Unders.shtml

Accenture, a global consulting powerhouse, is facing back-to-back slowdowns in new project bookings due to rising geopolitical tensions and economic volatility. While larger digital transformation deals remain active, smaller contracts are drying up. The firm is shrinking its workforce, delaying graduate onboarding, and facing federal contract cuts in the US. Leadership changes and a major organisational restructure underline the scale of disruption. ..

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/accenture-says-ceos-are-hitting-pause-on-consultants-amid-global-uncertainty/articleshow/121978613.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

The health insurance company announced in July that it planned to shutter its subsidiary Shared Health, which specifically served patients with Medicare, Medicaid and special needs.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/health-care/2025/09/08/bluecross-blueshield-layoffs-chattanooga-tn-150-cut/85996684007/

Why are people acting like this is done? Many more will lose their jobs before this is truly over. This is, at best, a short reprieve.

EchoStar's loser Chairman Charlie Ergen was forced to give up pursuing his dream of establishing Boost Mobile as the 4th U.S. facilities based competitor due to horrendous Marketing and a lack of funds due to Dish Network flaming out. Couldn't happen to a nicer and more deserving guy as Charlie's brought a lot of hardship into others lives over the years!

Things go from bad to worse as Boost Mobile reduces its head count

500 Boost network employees get sacked as the company loses the opportunity to be one of the "Big 4" U.S. carriers.

Sep 03, 2025, 6:37 PM

Lately, things have been going bad fir EchoStar. After it purchased Dish Network on the last day of 2023, EchoStar-owned Boost Mobile was supposed to be working on replacing Sprint as the fourth facilities based wireless carrier replacing Sprint. The latter had been gobbled up by T-Mobile in 2020 leaving only three major U.S. carriers and both the FCC and DOJ frowned on the reduced competition.
FCC has been accusing EchoStar of being a spectrum speculator

The FCC and Chairman Brendan Carr have been pushing EchoStar, accusing the company of hoarding its spectrum holdings, hoping to sell the licenses for big profits. This constant pressure from Carr led EchoStar to sell 50MHz of spectrum to AT&T for $23 billion. AT&T acquired 20MHz of 600MHz low-band airwaves that will be used by AT&T for its nationwide 5G service called AT&T 5G. The 30MHz of 3.45GHz mid-band spectrum acquired by AT&T will be used for AT&T's faster AT&T 5G+ service.

A Dish Wireless storefront.
Dish Wireless became Boost Mobile last year. | Image credit-Dish Network

Without the spectrum it sold, EchoStar's hope of having its Boost Mobile brand join Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T as the Big Four in the U.S. went up in smoke. It's not as though Boost Mobile has been thriving. The number of subscriber declined form the 9 million Boost had at the time it was purchased by Dish Network. Currently, Boost is believed to have 7.4 million customers, a 17.8% decline.

After losing its spectrum, Boost will become a hybrid MNO, or a hybrid Mobile Network Operator. Boost subscribers will use AT&T's network primarily although they also will have access to the T-Mobile network. AT&T will provide the base stations, radios, radio access network (RAN) software and spectrum frequencies. EchoStar will handle the billing, deliver the network core, and and provisioning software.

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Today, the story got uglier as EchoStar let go 500 employees who were working in the company's U.S. wireless network deployment and engineering groups. EchoStar's wireless network was originally known as Dish Wireless and became Boost Mobile after a rebranding last year. In a statement, EchoStar confirms that pressure from the FCC led to the decision to sell its spectrum to AT&T. It still has 76 MHz of airwaves to sell and there is speculation that Verizon, T-Mobile and SpaceX are interested.
EchoStar hopes to retire some debt with some of the proceeds of its spectrum sale

EchoStar revealed its motives for the reduction in head count. "Due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) actions, the recent announcement of EchoStar selling spectrum licenses to AT&T significantly impacts the company’s 5G wireless network deployment unit. With elements of our network to be decommissioned over time, the company will eventually not house a wireless network deployment workforce. After thorough review of our business operations moving forward, we have made the difficult decision to reduce our network deployment workforce. The majority of impacted employees were notified on Thursday, August 28."

Will Boost Mobile make it as an MNO?
Yes. It still has a well-known name.
24.79%
No. It won't succeed not being a Big 4 carrier.
53.31%
It's too early to tell.
21.9%
Votes 242

EchoStar President and CEO Hamid Akhavan said that the deal with AT&T will allow EchoStar to retire some debt and help fund its current businesses. It will, as noted, be a hybrid mobile network operator and a direct-to-device (D2D) satellite service provider. The executive alsio said on LinkedIn last week, "This is an important step toward resolving the FCC’s recent inquiries and demonstrates our commitment to continued innovation and success."

Because Boost Mobile will continue to exist, just not as a fourth facilities-based carrier, the spectrum sell-off impacts the retail part of the company a lot less than the network part of the business. The EchoStar spokesperson reiterated that there are no changes to the Boost Mobile brand. This is unfortunate for Boost Mobile because many blamed Boost's struggles on its failure to promote the company and its services. Meanwhile, Boost customers praised the quality of the network which is now dismantled.

Was the cut through every department?. Also, was the manager or the director the one who chose which coworker to let go? Some team report that the chosen one where great contributor yet I my friend was let go and it look like it was personal….

In 2017, a tax bill cut a key incentive starting in 2022 to look revenue neutral. The bill was still a massive tax cut overall.

The cut removed the writeoff for R&D…

That change made it more expensive to hire people in R&D. This included developers not essential to daily business and most scientists. Big cos were hit hardest since they run more R&D at any given time.

For customer service cuts, not affecting us much tho, the reason for shrinkin workforce is different. Companies just do not care. Phone trees, powerless outsourced reps, and broken websites have annoyed people for decades. But firms do not compete on good service, just price…

Investors like hearing about AI replacing this work. Companies cut more staff and service quality drops. There is little pushback from markets or regulators. That means cos face no real pressure to stop making service worse.

It will get worse before it gets better - at 66 it will be late for me.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-ARM-Changes-Red-Hat-QA

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-ARM-Changes-Red-Hat-QA

In previous layoffs, did it usually affect the more experienced, long-tenured employees, or were the newer joiners typically the first to let go? Curious to hear what others have seen in the past.

Excellence is irrelevant. Loyalty is irrelevant.

In the end, you’re not spared or damned by the quality of your work; you’re erased because a number had to go down on a spreadsheet.

Getting cut isn’t failure, it’s statistical noise. Like a wreck on the highway, survival at Cisco has nothing to do with skill; just chance, and sooner or later, chance runs out.

Is it just me, or have layoffs become much more common than before? I'm always hearing about cuts, and that's not something that was true before.

258 roles closed from vsp and 259 got isp
I'm not a math genius but that's 517. Six months of me in panic wondering how both me and my wife who worked here until she just found a new role would pan out to feed 3 kids for 517 roles??????
This place is ran by id--ts.

Despite cutting the number of employees by ~55K, over the past 5 years the actual Employee Expenses (per the 10-Q and 10-K) have not gone down one iota. You can look it up.

My manager once again has let the cat out of the bag. You will likely hear in the coming weeks about significant additional cuts that they are going to do state side so they can reposition jobs overseas. They might as well rename the company Manilla Payments. Expect to see increase cost for our cr-p benefits (perhaps as high as 5%) and maybe 2% raises next year.

It’s pretty clear leadership isn’t thinking beyond the next quarterly report. The long-term impact of shedding talent, experience, and skill doesn’t seem to matter at all. No matter how well or poorly a company is doing, there are always cuts, so there’s more money for the people at the top. Leadership doesn’t care about efficiency. They care about the bottom line, right here, right now.

Does anyone know? We’ve been stuck in a constant guessing game for weeks now.

Dexcom, the San Diego-based maker of continuous glucose monitors for diabetes patients and prediabetics, announced Wednesday that it is laying off around 350 workers, or 3% of its global workforce. Most of these reductions, or 196 people, are in San Diego, and of those, 134 are in operations and manufacturing.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/08/27/citing-changes-to-its-operating-structure-dexcom-cutting-350-jobs-mostly-in-san-diego/

RIFs are occurring across multiple areas today..CCB and CIB

Around 15 employees, including someone holding a managerial position, were laid off at Freeport, IL, USA

If not, I afraid there will be another mini wave

https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/globalfoundries-makes-adjustments-workforce-20884231.php

Wow so instead of Christmas layoff, they made it start of school year one lol. Left that toxic company 2 years ago, and been happy ever since.

How many frac crews have been put down this year?

Have they been cutting in other PSL's yet?

The latest round of layoffs has taken some of the most skilled and experienced people off the team. Losing that knowledge and expertise is a huge hit, and I can't see how this benefits the company at all. Why are the people who built real value the ones being let go?

Get Ready, no bonus for you this year, then expect a call from you smart career counsellor around november 1st week and you will have a great thanksgiving because you will be thrown out of the window of ACN

Sounds like last layoff hit any fully remote worker? Did anyone survive or did they wipe that slate clean in the impacted departments? Were those affected given a relocation offer or just let go? Worried about my future with the company.

So are there going to be more layoffs for the w2 agents coming early September25? Got a few calls about “rumors” regarding this does anyone have any insight?

Buckle up—an enterprise-wide “skills assessment” is rolling out this quarter. Officially, it's about aligning talent with strategic goals. Unofficially? It’s the corporate equivalent of musical chairs. Fewer seats. Sharpen your résumés—consider this your friendly warning.

The adjustment’s going to be a nightmare. I’d bet anything we’ll lose the people who are the true backbones of the teams.

I applied for a job that they are filling due to 3 people taking VRP. Is this a good move? I thought they wanted to cut the workforce, not replace them.

Just sayin is all…

https://www.crn.com/news/networking/2025/cisco-layoffs-total-more-than-200-in-bay-area-cut

On the heels of the news that the company is refreshing its channel leadership, Cisco is cutting 221 workers in the San Francisco Bay Area by mid-October.

“I don’t want to get rid of a bunch of people right now. I don’t want to get rid of engineers,” Robbins said. “I just want our engineers we have today to innovate faster and be more productive, and that gives us a competitive advantage.”

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4284185518

Job posting for external organization design consultant with experience in large scale reorganization.

Arena BioWorks has laid off 30% of its workers 19 months after launching with $500 million and visions of bringing the Bell Labs model to biotech.

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/arena-bioworks-19-months-after-splashy-launch-lays-30-its-staff

I miss those days.

Anybody else feeling this way knowing that people with more experience (who helped me when I needed it the most) have been laid off? I'm grateful I still have a job, don't get me wrong, but I still feel incredibly guilty, even though I know none of this had anything to do with me.