This thread is for info about potential PG&E layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
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@1crx it’s like they are begging to go to court or something
@1da8 Rumor is more layoffs are coming early next year.
@1d8n Most were at or near retirement, but also an opportunity to get rid of the un-represented employees that were not into drinking the sugar free kool-aid.
Layoffs announced today with many director and manager level positions eliminated.
@1d6g what department and what was your role?
200 + full time laid off, i was one of the impacted employee from IT
It’s true, all SHUG contractors were released on Friday Oct 30h. The Caltrans side of the department was running on a skeleton crew after previous week layoffs then the news came in, all contractors. It’s been a rough few weeks.
@1bzx Pacific Gas & electric for both.
Some of your references are “PG&E” while other references are “PGE”, which is Portland General Electric. This article should be proofread.
Did they announce a layoff today on the business update calls (10/26)
Does this affect only contractors or full time emoyees too.
15% of contract Veg. Management inspectors were laid off at the end of 8/2026. Substantially more were laid off a few weeks ago 10/2026. Hearing abundant rumors of mass contractor layoffs at the end of October 2026.
October 30 all subcontractors are to be OFF all PG&E property. And PGE will be doing their own storm work. Northern California is going to be in the dark November through February
As of 10/08/2026 the contract estimating teams were told we probably were getting laid off too as all contractors are but we have been told we will start again 01/01 not 02/01 and that makes a big difference bills wise so would love to know for sure which it will be. They also haven’t told us when it will be, not sure if we will get to the end of the month or longer or shorter or if it will be the next day or next week when they just say EOD today is your last day if they even give us the rest of the day.
Sounds about right. Patti didn’t get her sweetheart deal from government and reacting with “cost cutting measures”
I have call with IT see how that goes
Contractors are being laid off in my department. Our supervisor stated that lay offs are only targeting upper management and contractors and that permanent “frontline” workers are not going to be laid off. I don’t believe it. I’m skeptical. Our day to day work is shifting and changing because we are losing workforce. It sounds like the company is going to embrace burnout culture moving forward.
On 8/3/2026 PG&E canned all of their most seasoned on-prem IT professionals because they want to move everything to Azure and AWS despite the fact that it costs significantly more. The rest of their IT work is being given to India based IT companies. They froze all people leader (management) and principal positions claiming management bloat but primarily targeting the front line senior contributor IT positions. Literally everyone canned on 8/3 was 50+ and had years of infrastructure experience. Virtually everyone canned on 8/3 was a subject matter expert supporting on-prem infrastructure. Everyone was offered a severance package of 3 weeks for every year worked to a maximum of 52 weeks and given a lump sum for health insurance cobra conversions. Those who are eligible were sent retirement packages. All were placed in a 60 day "redeployment pool" where they collect their regular pay while looking for another job internal or external to the company. Layoffs and restructuring will continue throuhout the rest of 2026 but fear not, favored senior managers with zero or one report are being excepted rather than targeted.
what is the latest
were data or swe or biz analyst or pm roles cut??? i dont want to ask my old college buddies but have a feeling they both were :(
Seems like another round of a good bid from infosys and the 2 competing cloud companies. All of IT except for netword an security will be gone. Next will be the project managers and engineering. I feel for the people who have 20 years plus bot not at retirement age. I heard it was a thankyou and here is the hr rep.
@10a5 Agreed! We are waiting around to hear the fate of our teams too. This was truly done poorly without proper consideration or better planning!
There were tech layoffs yesterday, 08/03/2026. After watching years of hard work vanish in a five-minute layoff call, I'm left questioning the concept of workplace loyalty. We give our all to companies, but at the end of the day, do we matter to them as people? Our families bear the weight of these sudden decisions. More layoffs till the end of the year.