Thread regarding SAP layoffs

@OP If the layoffs happen like the last few times, engineering and product management in countries with no employee protections occur in Q4, organizations outside of engineering and product management in countries with no employee protections will be in Q1, and countries with employee protections will be in Q2. VERP might be in there somewhere.

I am 100% billable by customer . I only have this job because sap su-ks . The software is cr-p . So I think most sap employees are a waste. So 30 k layoff should still not matter .

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Getting an invitation to Bollywood dancing from Cultures@SAP is pure irony, when the German offices are flooded with Indians.

Strange sort of humor.

Can we stop attacking each other please?

This is a conflict between management and the employees.

SAP seems to be sliding into a downturn driven by weak products, platforms, and AI services or agents. Years ago, the firm held market leadership in certain lines of business, but that standing is fading toward secondary status or even irrelevance. The company now depends heavily on drawing revenue from current customers, who will probably move toward better solutions. The layoffs reflect this problem, as desperate executives try their best to maintain higher margins and craft stories to keep investors engaged..

@bj wrong. Executives want more money in bonuses and layoffs can generate short term revenue. So corporate greed = layoffs all the time.

Have you seen the stock price?

There are no reasons for layoffs.

From what I heard, they first want voluntary layoffs by giving very low salary increments and bonuses in 2027 and use VERP to go to rid of most employees. The real layoffs are supposed to take place in 2027 H2 as the layoff lists from several LoBs are not ready yet. The works council will not allow layoffs with all the restructuring they have planned in many LoBs like BTM including Signavio. There are rumors amongst HR that a 4 rating in performance management will mean a 2% salary increase in 2027. And that SAP won't hit this targets set by CK so bonuses won't be 100% but will in fact be lower at around 85% as they did a few years ago.

do you have the link for the post ?