Reportedly this week's layoffs start today with impacts through Friday.
Since this company will likely try to be stealthy with the layoffs and not remotely transparent post areas impacted and potential numbers here as they are found out.
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@e5 yes it will in the last paycheck in January
Got pulled into a meeting to be told about the layoffs. I'm on the CS side, and we're in the middle of AEP and they laid off several of my team. I was blessedly safe, but I take that with a grain of salt
@fh my husband works in law and reg, he did hear that everyone was notified. I have not heard the same thing though.
So far I have heard of Allstate US: claims, underwriting, IT, law & reg, HR
Plus some ANI and Allstate India
As of now Allstate was saying they had 53k employees.
There is also a wider outage of Outlook going on, so not sure if that’s affecting their meetings. What a cluster* of a whole situation is.
I am sorry to those who were impacted. Those who planned this while having a profitable year, shame on your entire being.
I heard the layoffs are now over? Has anyone heard that?
@e5 yes it is
@e5 I was told Yes.
@f1 what department are you in?
@ez this would be true if the context wasn’t a mass layoff where whole departments were let go. this isn’t performance based. allstate is cleaning house.
@f3 can you say what department you are in ?
@f2 design, 6 layoffs on my team
@cn what department are you in??
@ez this isn't necessarily true. My entire team has been let go and our supervisor would not have rated every single one of us for layoff.
@ce it’s anonymous, HOWEVER, if you write anything out your boss will know who is who. The smaller the team the easier it is to figure out. We know how our employees write, it’s a distinct “signature” for everyone. Also, complaints tend to be specific so, that also makes it easy.
Trust me, as a prior manager, there’s no randomness to this. Twice a year upper management makes you submit a list of your team ranking them 1-whatever in order of importance to your team’s survival and ability to run successfully with key staff. Favorites and team players also come into account. If you’re ranked at the bottom then that’s how you got picked for this. My meeting is in 25 mins, with bosses boss, IT, DCC, and my manager cancelled my one on one earlier. Makes sense now. I assume this is what a 10 mins meeting is for at 10:40am.
@er same here, they said I would get an invite to meeting with HR soon but still nothing, what a joke - tell people they are losing their job but make them have to wait to find out any details, surely this could be coordinated better to avoid unnecessary stress during an already stressful time for people.
Has anyone received communication from HR that was laid off yesterday? The person I spoke with was basically reading from a script with absolutely no info on when exactly I should be receiving said email from HR
@OP Laid off from ANI over 2 years ago. The non stop hanging basket of doubt regarding job security obviously still exists there. DELIGHTED I got away when I did. I was fortunate to get another role which I actually enjoy. I can understand a company having to restructure and adapt but the constant non stop ni---e of "am I next ?" is NOT a healthy or good work environment.
I was part of the 2020 layoffs and feel for all you going through this, not sure why the company likes to layoff people over the holidays. I understand the stress, but try to find a company that you want to work for and not a job. I was lucky enough to find that company and have been so much happier than the 25 years I was with Allstate. The fear of the unknown is real but you will get through it(it was was hard for me to believe that 6 years ago). Hang in there and God Bless. For those of you not laid off, is this the type of company you want to work for?
@eh maximum of 5 days
@e5 It is along with pension.
@ed Do you happen to know offhand how much PTO can be rolled over from this year to next, since the date of separation will technically fall in 2027?
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Make sure your layoff complies with the WARN Act, and see if you can negotiate severance.
Can we volunteer? I have an exit day to start a new job next year. I wanted a paycheck through Christmas. This sounds like the best for all. I get paid and hopefully someone can keep their job. Worth asking. I'm absolutely leaving so it would be awful for someone to lose their job unnecessarily.
@e7 - for those at least is the United States that do not officially separate for another 60 days, you will continue to accumulate PTO, pension, and 401K match until your last officially date of employment.
@d3 I think this is the first time I've seen ECs go...(I am one of them)
They've been talking about "rethinking the role"; I wonder if any in RMT were let go too.
@e5 yes however on an accrual basis on the date of separation. Go into Workday to determine how much time (PTO) has been accrued
@e5 that’s what I’ve always heard, yes
@cy HR unavailable currently. Does anyone know if unused PTO is paid out with the severance?
@dc yeah 15min meetings are not a good sign.. mine was a simple Teams cold call, so I got zero heads up
@db I'm on service team, have a meeting in the morning. Yeah, I've been preparing myself ever since I heard from other coworkers who got an invite for a 15 minute meeting.
Service teams are canned! 2 months pay and 2 weeks severance for every year of service. All while Allstate had a profitable 3rd quarter! Fu-k the CEO and the executive team!!!!
@d2 you can find it on the benefits site
@cg I’m on the NGIC side too in claims. Wondering same thing.
Does anyone know how many people are impacted?
@c7 Nobody asked for special treatment, you condescending d*ck. Someone is pregnant. Scared. Unemployed. And your first instinct is to be a complete piece of sh-t. You didn't make a point. You made an a-s of yourself. Shut the fu-k up.
@d0 omg EC here too. Our team just got a new person two weeks ago, makes me think wtf??
@d0 so sorry. EC in casualty east (southern area) and was so effing shocked by this. like wtf?
@cy I tried looking into this today, just in case. I didn’t get laid off (yet), but about half my team has so far. I didn’t see any severance information in the HR portal at all anymore. There used to be a whole section on that in the employee termination section, and it was all edited in September… all gone now
@c1 no. Unless you’re targeted due to pregnancy. I just got laid off today too. It seems very random.