Over 10 were laid off at a core on the east coast yesterday. Mostly low performing sales reps and useless admin.
This was round 1.
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September isn't over yet..
Funny how people mention redundancies. It takes 5 different people at Xerox to do the job of 1 XBS person. They just keep making stupid decisions. XBS doesn't need any more cuts. We already can't keep up with the work as it is. I called the marketing hotline a month or so ago and they said they were happy to hear from someone and its been really slow for them..XBS is still selling so maybe Xerox should take a look within their own departments.
41 at Comdoc!!??!!! Guess they are for real now.
Xerox has honed its lay-off technique over many years. They intentionally have smaller ones to avoid WARN notices and employee awareness which might result in class litigation.
Saxon Zeno struck yesterday. Sales reps are being evaluated this month in both cores, redundancy exists in many departments. Saxon has a "Major account rep" that doesn't sell anything and is being shielded. it's disliked among population that she hasn't been ousted yet and others that produce are gone.
Same ? Did Com Doc merge with another core yet?
A few layed off at Imagetech and a few at Conway yesterday, same thing, not furloughed just let go with no warning, Xerox you s—!!!
41 people at ComDoc?! Man... that's a LOT. Has ComDoc merged with any other cores yet, or are you still just ComDoc?
41 souls at COMDOC (Oh/PA) were let go over the past 48 hours. Sales/Back Office/Techs. NO Furloughs, straight Lay-offs.
@yyl+16Tsez15 - I never said the useless were let go first. What I said was that there likely aren't any left by now.
Of course the initial cuts included some, perhaps many, star players. Every round of cuts has included truly phenomenal people. But if you look around there aren't many useless workers left. They were either already cut, or couldn't handle taking on the 2 or 3 extra roles that the rest of us have, so they left on their own.
"I would suggest that all of the "redundant" (I prefer that over useless) resources were let go before 2020 started."
What an amazing statement you make.... I know some of the most talented and energetic people were let go over that 2 years, inevitably they were snapped up by other companies immediately and are delighted with life.
Your supposition of weeding out low performers first, reminds me of the character Norm from cheers..... Basically he equates beer drinking and loss of his brain cells to lions picking off the weaker gazelles in the herd, overall the herd speed increases as the "lower performers" decrease in number.
I'm just going to sit back here and watch the unhindered herd outrun the lions.
Much luck with that my fat friend :)
I would suggest that all of the "redundant" (I prefer that over useless) resources were let go before 2020 started.
Any cuts now will be deep into the bone.
Interesting. Looks like this only happened in the North-East. I wonder if that is because they have been affected by the pandemic more then the West and South?
This was not just low performers and admin. It was performers over plan (logistics managers and Sales VP's) and deep into logistics
East coast/cos. the ones we lost weren't useless and now we are just in the toilet on getting our calls done.
It was XBS and it wasn't 15%. It was 16 out of roughly 240. It was a mix of low performing salespeople and admin that is now overlapped since the bulk of parts and inventory is managed regionally. The useless admin comment was unnecessary. I do understand and appreciate your perspective but the useless ones were already gone in the HCL days. (not all being useless just most).
This was a nationwide action across XBS/GIS. My sources (who were impacted) stated the target was approx. 15% of staff at each core.
Can the poster please elaborate? Location?
If this is true, this is a very small set of layoffs. I wonder if Xerox will methodically lay off in small batches over a long period of time vs massively. With the revenue numbers being so bad I expected large scale layoffs - so this so surprising.
Where?