Word around the street is that now all requisitions are external posted by default, and recruiters are being tasked to actively round up candidate slates with under-represented groups. If anyone is looking to move internally, I think it just got a lot harder. It also looks like for more senior level positions the job market is getting a lot hotter. Paying for these external hires is going to get very expensive, when 3M could have just kept most of the 3000 people just fired. At some point this will be publicly called out for the mismanagement it is.
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Just to add fuel to the fire:
3M posted a fairly desperate call for staff to cover manufacturing lines at Cottage Grove, Red Wing, and Eden Prairie. Apparently all three sites are very short of labor to keep the equipment running.
I'd be willing to bet that at least some of the 2,900 people 3M just laid off would have been happy with those jobs, but that is just one peon's opinion.
Wow that is quite a change and likely not going to produce much positive business result, but maybe nice spin
under the advance 3M operating model, this has become worse. they created another layer of area leads who do nothing but to collate information to report upwards. such a mess. no wonder many of the SVPs take the package and retire early.
Mismanagement at all levels ! In my 18 years of experience, what I have seen is that anywhere from 70 -80 % of managers are technically incompetent or had rather mediocre skills, and hence moved to management ladder.
The only reason they went into management is that they did not have the grit, determination or the right callibre to succeed in the technical ladder and hence .....management is the answer. Also getting promotion in management is so much easier, it is usually a function of time. Getting promoted because of vision ( read bunch of baloney) or leadership ( sychophancy) ...what a joke.
How can a company expect growth when these poeple are running the show and making important decisions !!!
When common sense is thrown out the window, you get a company like 3M. You have to wonder what goes on in the executive meetings that drives them to make such incompetent decisions. When analysts ask every quarter why Mike Roman hasn't launched a new product in the last 10 years or grown the business, at least he can say they are lowering the carbon footprint and hiring minorities.
Just glad to be out of this mess and enjoying the view as 3M crumbles, from the corner office at a competitor.
Couldn't agree more @OP+1aGMasHK. Not only is it mismanagement, but it's morally reprehensible. The way this company has handled its workforce reductions and treated its employees is atrocious. Here's the idea - let's go ahead and systematically age discriminate under the guise of COVID and Advance 3M. We'll cut lots of costs and then we will also axe enough younger employees to make it look good so we can defend potential lawsuits. We don't have to worry about lawsuits anyway because none of our long-term, well-compensated middle mangers have the ba--s to opt out of the generous package we offer to take a chance on suing the company. So we get rid of lots of cost, and then hire under-represented groups so we can pump up those numbers and tout those metrics externally down the road. Then we'll be the heroes on paper. All of this is really transparent, unethical, and poor management. The cumulative comments on this board are showing that this company no longer cares much for its employees, and that's also reflected in the number of people fleeing the company for anything different. 3M should drop the hire-to-retire line they use because it's just no longer true.