If so, what groups have been hit so far?
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Yes. Lost two coworkers whose last day is Friday. Rest of my team won't know until Thursday.
Tomorrow, a different cost center takes over funding my department's work, which makes us maybe a bit safer going forward. Naturally the request came in right before that change happens. Bah.
Got to know some peers got laid off in US yesterday. Business Ops.
@cy That's great and all and, in all honesty that is fu--ing bullsh-t for sales folks but, your comment quite literally is about a comp plan that doesn't apply to a massive portion of the company lol...
@OP WFR started in 2016
The new comp plan is a non subtle way of WFR. Not paying staff at all between 0-60% is going to force staff to quit which is exactly what management want, they don’t want to have to fork out severances.
@bx It's a weird practice as our headcount numbers are going to come out with the annual report. Plus severance costs are in quarterly reports. Not to mention sites like this one.
@ba Don't worry. Overseas help is on the way.
Dell does WFRs in small (but continuous) amounts so they don't have to report WARN notices, which trigger negative media scrutiny.
Tech support here in ISG is still seeing ongoing layoffs, it’s happening almost every week. They’re doing it gradually, likely to avoid drawing too much attention. The goal seems to be cutting about 50% of the tech support team. Suddenly they are asking people to do more with less. The problem is that call volume keeps rising, and we’re now severely understaffed and overwhelmed.
In my opinion WFR is done. It’s pip and out. No severance. Look at all the details.