Thread regarding SAP layoffs

India is the most important location for SAP. Why is there no Indian on the board? That is not fair.

@sk In this list I see 4 people who should be replaced by an Indian.

@sk Why is this "not okay"? These folks might work much harder than any EU person, who wants to retire with full pension at 59. And there are more than 1 billion people of Indian descent, compared to merely millions of Europeans. The problem I see in your message is that there are simply too many reporting levels. There shouldn't be more than 4 or 5 levels between Board and the lowest level employee.

@sk they simply don’t care today, those managers are working for far less than a German or an American manager. Numbers is all that matters! Oh and the boards annual bonus.. let’s it forget that.

SAP needs to change. This is not normal. Look at my situation regarding my reporting line.

Me (European woman) -> German (my manager) -> Indian -> Asian (probably Japanese) -> Indian -> Indian -> board.

This is absolutely not okay. It has to change.

Ai costs more than the employee to be cut. Attractive verp packages may not be affordable.

It is important that many Indians leave.

I am sitting in waldorf and on my floor in every office (normally 4 people) there is at least one Indian.

It is too much. Too much.

Exactly why we need it . They should find out who all wants to go and then retain them and let the others go .

Voluntary buyouts are too expensive for SAP. It is cheaper to make the culture worse and let employees leave without severance. Also, there is no real reason for reducing the workforce. Many LoBs including mine are struggling because we do not have enough developers. If SAP really wishes to be more efficient, then HR would get rid of low effort jobs such as project managers, scrum masters and agile coaches, development managers with no background in software engineering, designers because there are so many of them, middle managers with very small teams that make no sense etc. But most of these employees exist because they are well connected. Any layoffs in product and engineering will only cripple our potential to deliver to our customers.

@OP because the best people will leave

@OP You and I are just a number, nothing more. The less they spend the better, especially when it comes to their financial rewards. Sap has a greed culture, they could care less about the human side of our existence.

Too many Indians. We need to do something about this.

VERP is already active but available only in Germany for employees older than a certain age.