I mean why do we need to deal with this again .Hearing now they want to riff about 10-15,000 more in April after the merger.Like sitting on the edge of seat.At this point thinking everyone starts looking for a job to jump ship if possibly comes up.Cause this is no way to live .I mean we’re all like we survived it’s over .Now new year it’s not over yet round 2 then what round 3
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@aq the CS AI isn’t ready. And it won’t be. Since agent’s cant leave feedback anymore it won’t be able to learn. The layoffs will mostly be eliminating duplicate roles between FIOS and Frontier.
@f8 they are buying Frontier to expand the fiber footprint. Selling off the Fios isnt in the current plans
Hearing that Verizon India is being sold to vendors like hcl, cognizant or Infosys
@mk hope that’s right! The 30 year legacy leaders that caused such an organizational mess are long past their due to leave. Horrendous leadership with no result.
Thousands will be laid off. hearing finance will hit hard
@a2 not FTR, they're protected for a yr after the signing of the merger.
Site your sources because there hasn’t been 1 rumble
Of this
Dan is cutting operational costs, and using automation and A.I. to replace people.
He mentioned that in the first company wide meeting. When Dan said 1000 days until Artificial General Intelligence. I took that as how much time most employees have with the company. Dan even mentioned field techs have at 5 to 7 years until robots can replace them. Why else would he mention it if it did not apply?
I suspect they are prepping the company to sell the company to another buyer, and they are trying to make operational costs look good by laying people off.
@aq no way you could do that job!
@a9 Gemini, stop trying to motivate us. We don't need AI playing life coach.
@ch oh lordt ... all McKinsey consulting does is get paid to propose what the board wants so they can take the heat off themselves.
The board gonna be like McKinsey said cut all these extra jobs, they are the professionals so we just followed their guidance.
If MCK is involved, expect some job analysis requests in your inbox soon....
Ive Been thru this before....
The number isn’t definitive yet but expect to find out early Feb after the Q4 earnings call
This is unfortunately true. As the forecasts for next years are being created by Tony with Sampath’s help (where the heck is Kyle and Russo), it seems that there needs to be significant reduction in headcount needed especially with churn reduction spend and price pressure / war with the competitors.
The number is not final but will feel as substantial as 13k. McK consulting involved and proposing sizing.
@bp My guy, how delusional are you to think everyone was doing this? Barely anyone ever did stuff like this, unless it came to childcare and that's cleared by managers. To think that during covid we would take our children out of daycare because gasp we legally had to due to cloaures? Also to think that we didn't work out part or our hours? Or that during covid the company overhired 45000 employees when employment numbers ran flat?
Go back to your useless middle management position and wait for April. You'll no doubt be next anyway, so try not to crash out and lose your severance when you hear it.
Just work as prescribed 9-5 M-F. A lot of you took advantage and worked between morning golf and afternoon tennis times timeslots after Covid and forgot what working normal hours are. Many canceled daycare and started bringing your older kids to and from school on company time. Human nature to do so but welcome back to collaboration and teaming up in the office. Has been done for over a century. You had to abuse the freedom, didn't yall?
there will be tens of thousands of layoffs. guaranteed
@OP what a load of cr-p!! Oh, hearing more layoffs? No sh7t Sherlock. OF COURSE THERE WILL BE LAYOFFS!!!!
Fake news! There are not exact numbers as of now!!! It has been said here over and over again....we always have two big cleaning events a year ...oct-nov...march-april....last year one of them was big due to...well we all know the state of the co.....this year march-april will be around recent reorg and duplicate/similar roles....then oct-nov a smaller one due to frontier synergies.....
Call center representatives need to go, aka operators. Your job has been outsourced and given to AI. Get rid of them @$100k a pop, and you’ll have your layoff #’s.
@ak frontier
@OP the merger with WHO ?
I should've said, every mass layoff was leaked here first. Small layoffs happen all the time.
Every lay-off, the incentive program, I heard here first. Not all rumors turned out true, but the ones that did were leaked here first. Dan Schulman appointment was leaked here the night before it was announced. There are people here who know what they are talking about.
@OP everything on this site is ust a guess. But use some common sense and think what happens after mergers. Plus lots of fat left
@a5 scared people dont think. What they think was going to happen after the merge.
Cuts across the board.
Finance, network, sales etc
Hearing smb, b2b and retail hit hard w more closures and smb all but removed
B2b merging
ASM headcount lowering in stores
All around cuts
Where did you hear this?
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it’s happening. far and wide. sorry if you are going ti be impacted.
Well that's usually what happens after a merger. Redundant positions.
Which Orgs?
Are you hearing this from a reliable source? Will these be verizon people layed off or ex- frontier people layed off?