was it 1,500 or more? seems like more to me...
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I can confirm the CX area is getting rid of most contractors. Most in my area are leaving as of Dec 7 with some staying a couple of weeks longer.
@W1dpB1z-wii - you can't be serious. Cisco would shut down if all the contractors were let go. Every time there is an LR or WFR, teams quickly fall behind on their workload and they staff up on contractors to get the work done. They'll end up hiring twice as many contractors as they let employees go because it takes time to get them up to speed and productive. Then as Cisco decides what work is truly important and what isn't, they'll cut out the unimportant work, convert a few contractors who really stood out to employees, keep the contractors who became proficient enough to do the work of 2 new contractors to do the day-to-day stuff and let all the under performing contractors go.
In previous LR's or WFR's, they only gave that into to people over 40 and it was for their BU, not for the entire company. That was the case with my severance package.
Know guys who got LR'd they give them the entire list as part of the package. approximately 500.
This report says a lot less than that, and they're pretty much all at Cisco HQ. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2018/11/06/cisco-layoffs-executive-departures-csco.html
Dude. No way. Common you can't be that stupid. Approximately 70k people work at Cisco. If 35% were cut then that'd mean 24.5k were affected and that definitely wasnt the case as it'd most definitely be all over the news. Number whatever it was is much lower.
No way 35% were cut. It would have been in the news by now. Not even close to 7%. But all contractors will be eliminated or reduced drastically.
It's a lot more. The number is 35% total cuts. Complete business structural realignment. It is a strategic move by Cisco ELT.
Where did you get 1,500?