"Today, we are announcing further changes to our Global Partner and Retail Enablement (GPRE) organization, including a reduction in team size. These changes include role eliminations in North America and a formal consultation process for impacted employees in Ireland. There are no impacts to roles in China.
This is difficult news, particularly following the changes we made in June. It affects colleagues who have contributed meaningfully to our customers, our suppliers, and our teams. To those directly impacted: thank you for your work, your partnership, and everything you have brought to this organization.
In May, we brought several supplier-facing and internal organizations together under GPRE to simplify how we work and reduce fragmentation. We are now making further changes to support the long-term health of the business and our ability to serve customers and suppliers. I recognize that explaining the business rationale does not lessen the impact of these decisions on our colleagues, or the uncertainty that another round of changes creates for the team. "
"All GPRE employees will receive confirmation whether their role is impacted or not. If your role is impacted, you’ll also receive a meeting invitation within 15 minutes, along with details on next steps, including opportunities to connect live with Leadership and Talent partners. If your role is not impacted, your confirmation email may take up to 30 minutes to arrive. Please note for North America based employees these changes are effective today, October 2nd, while impacted EU employees will be entering into the consultation process."
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52 roles in NA
8 roles in consultation in IE
12 roles shifted to T&D
Automation is wiping out the ticket teams. By year end automation will handle all ticket work.
Our team has had two people picked off on the previous layoffs and just now a single individual for no reason. We are now down to 6. A lot of credit folks were let go and I always thought that team was Wayfairs “bread and butter” (seeking supplier credits and recovering cost for supplier errors) but just goes to show that is no longer the case. Lots of automation and AI being used to take over workflows. I don’t know anything but I can see them doing this again after peak or January 2027. It’s been a while since any actual rumors got posted here so this must have been “top secret”.
Yeah I agree, the timing is weird. Wayfair doing layoffs sadly is no longer a surprise, but them doing it less than a month before peak starts… that seems weird.
@f0 Offshored and automated work across most departments. It is only a matter of time before Boston goes. Assuming that it will be the same for the folks in Europe. Result are now meaningless, only cost matters. I do find it strange that the people who will be next are celebrating these outcomes today.
want to know how this made sense at start of Q4 , busiest time of the year..... really makes you think the writing must be on the wall if they feel confident in losing bodies before peak kicks into gear.
Got laid off unfortunately, was quite unexpected
I’m so sorry for anyone affected. I was impacted three years ago and I still miss W everyday.
@a2 Same here and they do even less.
I believe the count is close to 60. Both NA and EU impacted as it says above.
I'm safe but really can't believe i'm still here. I literally do nothing all day and my manager knows!