Has anyone heard any definitive rumors or other talk about this? Hexaware, the team in Mexico has started taking over several functions of the IT Support number and chat. It seems like the department is being eliminated?
A sign you screwed up as a company.
When those who were not eliminated are leaving on thier own accord. Up tick in voluntary termination. More to come Ricoh, you burned bridges with your employees.
Get a Grip..
Jake Yamashita needs to get a grip on Ricoh, USA operations ASAP. Most likely already too late but seriously needs to clean house on Corp Leadership.
Resurgence -More Like Harakari
kioyshi Ichimura is most likely rolling in his grave. The poor man's hard work and vision going down the drain.
2nd Half Will Diminish 1st Half OI
The latest Ricoh USA cut will haunt them. Too dumb to realize the negative chain of events about follow that will significantly impact sales. Short sighted leadership at its best. Always first seek to understand before being understood. Mix in Yes... — read more
Ricoh can’t stop the bleeding
Worst decision I ever made. Ricoh will continue to fail over the next two years. Channel conflict methodology creates team division! Icon management ruining company by protecting old Icon teammates. Management quits working 4th quarter of every year... — read more
Ricoh just showed how much they valued employees
1.5% budget towards merit increases, guess we're not that important. Keep adding insults to injury Joji and Donna V. What is your legacy?
National Call Out Sick Day - Oct 31st
Protest of sending US jobs to offshore low wage counties and to those who have and soon will lose their job with Ricoh. What will be your legacy?
200 laid off this year in Houston
Here is your breakdown... Source below... NOTICE_DATE JOB_SITE_NAME COUNTY_NAME WDA_NAME TOTAL_LAYOFF_NUMBER LayOff_Date WFDD_RECEIVED_DATE CITY_NAME 10-Jul-18 Ricoh USA, Inc. Harris Gulf Coast WDA 28 08-Sep-18 13-Jul-18 Houston 10-Jul-18 Ricoh USA... — read more
Ricoh Sr. Leaders Instruct all Managers to Lower Employee's Annual Reviews!
Talk about shady. Manangers were told they needed to lower all Employee Annual Performance Reviews. For example if were at top metrics performer and a valued team member and warranted an exceeds expectations you were given a meets. Managers were told... — read more
Fellow Ricoh Employees - Take the time to read before signing off on a Ricoh Severance Package!
You can do your own research as well. Please understand what you're giving up when you sign off. Severance Offers: When It Pays to Say “No Thank You” https://skloverworkingwisdom.com/blog/severance-offers-when-it-pays-to-say-no-thank-you/
Ricoh sees profit quintupling in fiscal 2018 (While burning out its remaining staff).
https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Japan-Update/Ricoh-sees-profit-quintupling-in-fiscal-2018 Tons of layoffs, sending the work overseas. Lots of H1-B Visa employed at corporate office. (Not becuase of lack of talent available in the US, its... — read more
Ricoh Cut Another 90 Jobs in the US!
Ricoh, USA cut another 90+ Customer Administration positions. Sending the work overseas.
March 2018 Layoff
Between 200-250 jobs were eliminated at the end of March 2018. Jobs cut were across Office Services group. 30 days notice was given to those employees.
Boulder, CO Layoffs
Between 40-45 people were laid off in Boulder, CO in March 2018.
Must read
Most of the article is focusing on Japan and Europe operations, but it's the last sentence that stands out: The Nikkei-Asian Review also reported that Ricoh has cut over 5,000 jobs in North America since beginning of this year... — read more
Replacing experienced workers with younger and cheaper ones
Ricoh was a company to work for, but nowadays they've made some bad investment decisions. A lot of talented and long time employees were either transferred to Georgia and some who were employed for 30 plus years were laid off. A company that had... — read more
2018 RICOH LAYOFFS
RICOH has made the announcement at the beginning of January 2018 that INSIDE SALES will now be processed overseas in the Philippines. That means all the employees who process the orders for Inside Sales in the US will either loss their jobs or was... — read more
No warning whatsoever for layoffs
They completely laid off the entire IT section in Lawrenceville. One employee had been with the company for 25 years and was only one year from retirement. There was absolutely no warning. The layoffs make abosolutely no sense as they lost years of... — read more
More Layoffs
On August 31, 2017, 23 employees were laid off at the RICOH distribution center in Lawrenceville, GA. They were mainly employees in the IT and finance departments. I hear there will be more to come. Some days it is impossible to get 8 hours. Business... — read more
More layoffs incoming?
Just found out workers in the Tustin, CA operations are getting furloughed. That means less product coming in to other distributions warehouses in the US. If they are getting slow, what will happen to other distribution employees? Furloughs, more... — read more
Advice to Ricoh employees from a former employee
Hi - I am a former RBS senior tech (26 years experience) from south Texas. The unfortunate writing was on the wall for Ricoh employee's years ago, so I spent time earning various IT certs and accumulated an ever wider array of technical skills and... — read more
GEM Layoffs
GEM positions have been cut in half in markets several weeks ago... Affected GEM representatives - this was in the USA but about 3000 folks in Japan lost jobs too. Will get worse, the market conditions are just bad.
Ricoh Northeast Layoffs
Talked with some employees, the news about layoffs are true. A lot of Major Account Executives have been let go yesterday in the Northeast, but it looks like the layoff is affecting much more than just Northeast (and it's also affecting other... — read more
Rumor of 2nd round of layoffs at Ricoh commencing today?
Haven't seen anything more on it, but the rumor mill is that Ricoh is reorganizing its sales team again today in North America.
Ricoh USA 2017 Layoffs
Ricoh USA will lay off over 1000 people, this was officially announced today. We have 26000 people working for Ricoh in the States. There will be more emphasis on software and the Cloud, so unless you have those skills you will be in trouble. Other... — read more