@OP I just saw several people post on LinkedIn about their department being solved and everyone laid off yesterday. She was a content creator.
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@a8 layoffs have not stopped, it's just now done in small frequent batches
I think if you can survive until November 30th you should be fine until next year.
But they will most likely do some more layoffs between now and end of November so as to make 4th Quarter look extra good from an overall financial aspect by reducing liability, via reducing labor costs. By doing that it makes the corporation appear more profitable because Revenue minus Liability equals Profit.
Effecting Revenue is harder to achieve but effecting Liability is easy.
Here is an explanation of timelines for every 4th Quarter.
Around December 15th, while Humana cannot close the books, finance teams absolutely push for a "soft cutoff" or "pre-close" deadline around mid-December. They do this specifically because of the holidays. Around December 15th, finance will typically enforce strict expense deadlines, such as requiring employees to submit all outstanding travel and entertainment expenses early. And clean up historical data, reconciling accounts for October and November so that only December’s data remains to be processed in January.
So, with that explanation, it would be challenging for finance department to reconcile layoffs in the month of December so normally layoffs do not occur past November 30th for the current year.*
- But, once again, historically speaking, they most likely will do some layoffs between now and November 30th. Just probably not in December. And they may also do some more layoffs in 1st Quarter 2027. Whether any of these layoffs are in a mass all at once or trickled here and there so they go unnoticed by most, cannot be determined. And whether people being let go by means of early retirement offer, layoffs, or forcing people out by middle level leader pressure or putting employees on an “improvement plan” cannot be determined.
Not a fu--ing chance.