Thread regarding Comcast layoffs

@bk Thank you for sharing with the group.

@aw you clearly underestimate how
many positions that team fills each year, and how many people apply to said positions. The funneling down is the hardest part.

@OP not mostly managers and directors. Lots of ICs impacted as well.

@ar not all HR. Talent and HR merged in 2024. 100s of Talent AND HR professionals.

@ah false. That was not the name of the meeting where employees were let go that I was a part of.

@b6 AI/agents can only be as good as the prompts people designing it can dream up

i'd be afraid of AI-replacement in comcast, but the folks wanting that for "$ saving" dont actually know how literally anything works

great if you're starting from scratch...actually impossible with 30M customers who need the legacy supported in perpetuity

i'll worry of AI replacement the moment we have a leader with the stones (or lady stones, or other stones) to actually tell the C suite to fu-k off

and no one with an M in their paycheck will ever put self at risk. not once. thats how we got here

@b3 recruiting is already automated by AI at a lot of places

do you remember a time where a recruiter recruited anyone? are they just a buffer to make sure applicants can spell their name?

this was the lowest hanging fruit possible

these are humans with lives/families and i dont want to minimize that at all.

and also, if you're considering actual dollars and cents for the business, this whole department is an an easy choice when leadership doesnt know which way is up

I heard. Crazy. They're flattening the entire dept.

@ar long time coming you see how big those orgs are?

We had 100s of HR professionals?

You will get a meeting invite called Offload. That goes over everything

@a9 thanks for sharing

@a8 for the most part, anyone impacted is staying on for the rest of the year

Effective immediately? Like what’s the off boarding timeline looking like?

@a5 Actually talking about HQ specifically

HR did the prep work. Once that was done, there was no reason for them to stay.

@OP do you know if this was regions only? Or across the board?

Yeah, it’s trippy. The very people who backdoor, announce, and put together the paperwork and logistics for others’ layoffs just had that done to them. I’m sure it feels unreal for them because unlike for everyone else, layoffs would seem like job security for HR given all the work they have to do when those hit but I guess no one is safe. HR VPs let go too.

I just saw a post on LinkedIn from someone saying they were let go; it's kinda odd, because aren't we the ones who tell people they got laid off? So I'm going to get a call from an AI agent saying we got let go
Also?

@OP Which orgs are you referring to?

Yes and regions of HR professionals are gone.