Anyone’s guess how much money has been spent on constantly renovating corporate over and over again? And why? Everyone hates going into the office.

The ones you fire and hire back is a joke. Such a game you play with your financials so the owners get paid on the backs of the Staples slaves. And you wonder why the ones come back in the first place, it’s not for the great culture.

Does anyone know if Staples locations (not retail) will be open the day after Thanksgiving. We have not heard and they usually wait till 2-3 weeks before they tell us.

Curious what people’s opinions are with the new 4 day mandatory in office policy update. I get that it makes sense since it’s an office supplies company but there are plenty of teams that don’t even do 3 days now. Is this a ploy to avoid layoffs in... — read more 

You can be sure this process has already started as Sycamore does not care where sales and profit are, they will cut more to improve their end of the year bonus. It usually starts with notifying the go forward teams. I am sure that has already... — read more 

Hi, I'm at Walgreens. What support center jobs/departments were hit with the layoffs the first year of Sycamore Partners buying Staples? Appreciate the insight of where I could be in the chopping block.

Sycamore just purchased Walgreens, any insights on what the company was like under their leadership?

This is the favorite time of the year for Staples “holiday greetings” through November layoffs. Get ready to be ready, it will be about cutting the staff, cost, manager preference, or last hard first fired. Update your résumé, pay for it if you... — read more 

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/office-depot-parent-be-acquired-by-atlas-holdings-1-billion-2025-09-22/

Cybersecurity being ran by the most incompetent non cyber people ever. Staples really forgot they’re supposed to protect the network, not promote their friends.

With November quickly approaching anyone hear of any rumors on whats going to happen and who might be laid off?

Looks like those horrendous hires over proven leaders haven’t worked out as well. Who would have thought it??! Weak a-s recruiters and a-s AVPs. People quitting and more layoffs.

My last day was August 29. Me and 4 other AR Analyst were laid off on Wednesday just after Q2.

Hey Staples folks. Coming from a concerned Walgreens employee that just learned your ex CEO Michael Motz is now CEO of Walgreens. What do we have to look forward to? Is he good, bad? Pros? Cons? Is it all really doom n gloom from here on out? ... — read more 

Recent laid off employee here.

Starting today they’re installing additional security cameras at Framingham HQ. This is out on the portal but wasn’t sent via email communication. Wondering what the reasoning is. Why spend money when they’re planning layoffs all the time??

No one's talking about JL and Jeff leaving for Walgreens??

It's a good possibility.

Buckle up. Another round is coming!

Cracks me up seeing names of reps and managers being promoted for positions that were terrible in the entry level roles they were hired to do originally due to letting go all of the experienced higher paid team members in lieu of this cheap bad... — read more 

Sgmre sending MR LDGR out the door. Staples to be sold. Hang tight.

Anyone have any real info about any upcoming layoffs at Corporate, SPP or Quill? Lots of budget scrambling going on. Not looking for comments about leadership or a mystery blackball list.

Rinse and Repeat! Staples strategy consists of laying off dept by dept year over year and then rehiring a percentage back. How does this company stay in business and how much psychological warfare should they be allowed to play on the associates... — read more 

Let’s bring down the temperature and rhetoric. Let’s focus on winning new customers and making it easy for them to buy. We have your best interest at heart.

What do you think about the changes and layoffs at SPP today?

New employees being hired or brought into STS and are bringing positive change. Was skeptical at first but they have proven to be uplifting and some have years of sales and support experience

New thinking dies fast, usually because it steps on someone's turf or needs teams to actually work together. Push too hard and you're labeled difficult. So people stop trying, and the smartest ones either leave or give in. I used to care. Now I... — read more 

Any rumblings of this? Saw something on another thread...... It makes sense a bit...... in an industry where nothing makes sense.

Thoughts?

Because I sure haven’t.

Any insights if and when retail and NAD are merging?

Sales Leadership is about to finalize their plans to reorganize Public sector.....yet again Even after verticalizing, it's just a leaky bucket and continues to shrink quarter after quarter. Unsurprisingly, the impact list is almost entirely IC's... — read more 

Seems like whoever posted about layoffs in 3 weeks, which was 3 weeks ago, had some bad data? It usually happens on a Wednesday or Thursday morning and nothing at Corporate this week

Hey.... Fellow office supply person here. Trying to find out if Staples has commissioned Sales rep... I posted in another thread, but people said it was "stupid".... The days of a commissioned sales rep is going away. So... if anyone would be kind... — read more 

Videos and posts are so cringy. Proving you can’t go back. They aren’t funny and seem manufactured. This is just sad. OG was so much better. This is typical out of touch attempt by an inept SLT with Marketing being the only laughable thing about this... — read more 

Do you guys have reps that are on commission where they're getting paid on Supplies, Print, Jan San, and FUrniture?

The new KPIs are just a way for them to have layoffs. The Winramp dashboard is a fu--ing joke. Transactional wins help none of your KPI. The specialist partners also controlling part of our winramp is stupid. If they close it too high that shouldn’t... — read more