They seem to be never-ending. You'd think one of them would achieve something instead of just usher in another one.
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Been doing some research on McKinsey, they are far nefarious than previously thought.....
@h7 lol $20 million. They’re making way more.
@be McKinsey sells slide decks to executives who haven't worked on the front lines in twenty years.
They come in, cut middle management to hit a clean manager-to-employee ratio on paper, collect a $20 million fee, and bounce.
What actually happens on the ground? The work doesn't disappear….it just gets dumped on whoever is left. Remaining leaders suddenly spend half their week buried in admin coordination instead of doing their jobs. The automated software tools meant to replace triage teams aren't fully ready, so system fixes take twice as long and customer service tanks.
Leadership gets a nice margin boost to show Wall Street for two quarters, but the actual operational engine gets trashed. Eighteen months later, the C-suite ends up hiring another consulting firm to fix the exact chaos the first one created.
The amount of reorgs is dizzying. By the time they make merch and swag with XYZ printed on it, the departments changed. It’s like they think the solution to everything is a reorg. Changing the acronyms of a department and laying off a bunch of qualified employees isn’t a recipe for success, but they keep doing it. The remaining good ones double their workload for the same pay, and the incompetent ones get promoted to leadership positions because they spent their time schmoozing rather than providing meaningful value to the place.
Comcast used to be a field tech oriented company where management made sure techs had everything thing they needed to be able to resolve issues quickly but then they cut the number of techs drastically and created a monstrous management structure that accomplishes nothing but making the techs job harder. No wonder the company is struggling
SVPs and VP’s are one too many. After the last layoff's it seems there were more placed than needed. Those doing the actual nitty gritty and keeping the company going, are those who are now doing extra work and are in the thick of it everyday.
This is just another reason why Comcast cannot retain GOOD employees.The ones that do all the work, have the skills, and are knowledgeable about every aspect of the company are jumping ship because they are not valued. Their jobs have been slowed due to the wait of overseas teams, the workload has increased due to the cuts made to good employees, there are missing departments and people that used to connect that are now gone, and let’s be honest, no one wants to go through the constant ups and downs of restructuring. Comcast was a great place to work about 10 years ago. Things dramatically changed since. Also, after the last restructuring at the end of 2025, did we need to hire the amount of VP’s and SVP’s that we did? What was the purpose of that? Maybe things wouldn’t be the way they are now if there were more people actually doing the work instead of ‘demanding’. The middle men and women make Comcast what it is. They are the ones that shouldn’t have to worry about this year after year, and yet here we are.
Massive cuts are being decided at a very high level.
Wall Street was promised cuts in the billions of dollars with details during the Q3 earnings report next month.
After big cuts last December and then again in May, this upcoming layoff will be massive in comparison.
Senior leadership is cutting and slashing with the thought that 'it will all work out'.
@b5 agree. Accountability has to start somewhere and that’s a great place to begin.
Right now we have such a bloated and fractured organization where bureaucracy and cronyism reign and innovation and efficiency die.
McKinsey has to be looking at the sprawling mess and saying WTF. It will be interesting to see if the folks in the c-suite have the courage to enact meaningful change or if we just get the latest iteration of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
All SVP+ needs to be cut, they are the problem making these boneheaded decisions that dragging this once great company down.
We are going to keep at it until, sooner or later, by blind luck if nothing else, we finally get one right.
@OP so we were in this all-hands meeting, circa 2016, can't remember the exact name of my organization within T&P because that was so many re-orgs ago, when the new bigwig said that re-orgs were necessary, what made the difference was that "well-run companies do it every five years, poorly-run companies do it every two years". He seemed oblivious to the fact that we were doing it every six months.