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Will the merger slow or speed up the sdo closings? Sure wish they would make an announcement instead of leaving us in the dark. nC here

Office Max did not outsource much domestic functions. Bookkeeping was in house. Deliveries were sent to warehouses in large trucks from the suppliers and shipped to the stores and customers from there. Accounting and bookkeeping was done internally... — read more 

What are your thoughts on the newly formed Staples Depot Max! Does this make sense to you? How will this affect layoffs?

What is everyone's thoughts about current employees' future with the company now?

We have heard that multiple Arkansas locations are on the chopping block. No one has heard about specific locations. Does anyone have any other info? We are tired of being in the dark....

Northeast up next. Sharon hub in Mass will go down first. Word within next two weeks. Stoneham Mass by end of month along with Cincinnati...

Staples will take the lead, expect Depot to lose most back office functions. They did it with the Corporate Express merger, accounting, purchasing, IT and bids and quotes. Expect to see director level and up to be cut also. Any place there's overlap... — read more 

Friends, I cannot stand this uncertainty and humiliation any more. Just need to vent a bit. I've spent numerous weekends and nights away from my family, working long shift and putting up with verbal abuse and management bullying - I cannot stand it... — read more 

Range is 0 to 4% based on appraisal. Mean will be 2.25%. Mode will be 2.5%. Those higher in their pay grade will get a lower percentage than someone higher, closer to the max in their grade. Meetings now to chat about those that got bumps due to min... — read more 

With the pending announcements looming in the next couple weeks be sure to take notice that all SDO's will be closed eventually. Just because you have a lease or are imbedded with FC's or Sales does not protect you from imminent closures. The size of... — read more 

Boss just told me have a hiring freeze for drivers. What????? Then he tells me we aren't going to close "soon".

How many of us will be threatened brow beat into traveling in the upcoming storm to keep our stores open. We all need to stand our ground and not travel during a blizzard for our own safety and that of those who need to be on the road. Office... — read more 

Reddit has several threads going about Staples cutting part time associates hour again, this time from 25 to 20 hours per week. Any one heard anything concrete about this?

Next month Staples will announce the closures of many SDO's across the country and in the coming months the remaining being closing before the end of the year. The savings to Staples will be millions and will help appease stockholders eager for a... — read more 

Oh Ronald the decisions you continue to make, as if no one can see through your hollow lies. You are not taking your "raise" but continue to collect each bonus. One bonus in particular comes to mind...a 15 million and change bonus in such a time the... — read more 

I have been through this before. The writing is on the wall. What did staples want with corporate express? Their book of business and that's it. Staples needed CE'S cash and customer list to stay afloat. Now they have it but are losing money. All the... — read more 

Im taking the severance simply because I don't want to demote with a paycut and I cannot stand my GM lack of leadership skills. Will be finishing school with in the year. Taking my experience elsewhere.

A brief Googling this morning made me wonder why Staples' stock fell a bit yesterday. Seems it was in result of this: http://fortune.com/2015/01/20/starboard-staples-office-depot/ So, as predicted, the Starboard investor that has bought a lot of... — read more 

That was my life at Staples for six years. Closing each and every night I was scheduled. Being designated as a "Key Holder", yet not being given the pay that was given to other employees in that position. It's why I left after being told year after... — read more 

soon to be announced: the Westerly RI store will be relocated across the street to a 12,000 building.

Gm's are putting themselves working 6 to 4 Monday through Friday, while forcing the SM to close every shift and also work every single saturday and sunday. I was told a total of 43 Sales Managers are trying to find other work. This isn't right, our... — read more 

Staples is closing Sandy Springs. Buckhead is closed. Milton and I believe Alpharetta

Otis just delivered an email to all stores announcing SVP Steve Liotta is leaving the company. Thanking him for is years of service. Yada, yada. Smells like another force out ?

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February or March? all SDO's or in phases....

To any employees that are going through all of this I am truly sorry, you are witnessing the end of Staples retail, the retail division is failing and online business is all that is keeping the company above water, they don't care what employees lose... — read more 

These are the changes in structure. If your budget for next year results in a Tier change, that is unrelated. There are also pilot and test programs coming to an end, e.g. Tech Center Supervisors, Prime Techs, etc. Tier 4: $<3.75m Team Supervisors... — read more