OMG. Sabre is not making enough money but they have more employees then pre pandemic levels. If you can not be lean during trying times that means you don’t have scalability in built in your DNA. Wake up leadership, see if a manger have only 5 ppl reporting to him then get rid off him. If business is not there shutoff that project. What’s stopping the leadership to do that. VPs now have only 30 people team, get rid off them. VPs who became exec principles should not be there either. Few in SHS keep doing this. You know who I am referring to ;) E. H. Lot of sr. Dir. as well who then need managers under them to handle a 10 ppl team. What’s going on?
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I have the official numbers. Under 8,000. Stop making stuff up.
It all started with Louis Offshoricourt
They wanted to get rid of the tenured employees, the ones with expertise, so they could legally move those jobs offshore for nickels & dimes. Study the history of senior executive management, and remember how many really great SVPs were let go. I miss the Sabre with Sam G, after he left hardly anyone felt loyalty and saw the decline of the good old days with Sabre. I’m so thankful to have moved on to a company that puts their employee satisfaction on the top of their management style.
As someone who left Sabre Poland I can assure it is not the best place on earth. Sabre has very, very bad reputation here.
I loved people there, met some good managers but was also unfortunate to work with one of the worst PMs I have ever met. She was from US.
Also, I saw several comments about the "fancy" office in Poland. A few things:
- It's a leased building, shared with other companies
- The location is so so, definitely not fancy
A lot of those numbers are contractors. Not an official headcount. FWIW
It’s good to see Sabre India and Sabre Poland appear in LinkedIn postings as the happiest places on earth. Those locations appear to be thriving during this transition of closing down Southlake. Glad we acquired Radixx so we have something to sell..
Not disagreeing with you about the need to flatten the organisation but you should also consider how the redistribution of the workforce has affected the headcount. The offshore employees (so-called "low-cost employees") now outnumber US-based employees by an even bigger factor prior to the pandemic. This has long been Sabre's plan - the pandemic merely gave them cover to do it.