Leaving employees in this much uncertainty is a terrible way of managing layoffs.
What do they expect? That we will be productive and focused on work while we are wondering if we will soon be out of a job?
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This round will be "kinder" than the August layoff when the papers never carried a full length story and 3M later gave a nebulous statement about layoffs but no numbers.
I expect everyone will know within a month. Since HR has to be at every termination, they are the limiting resource for how fast this one happens.
Pre-Mcnerney, layoffs were rare and HR actually made a point of providing opportunities for employee development, updates on the nice benefits offered to 3Mers, etc.
What a cluster F this company has become this century.
To answer your question, most leaders are numb to this and spend nights either getting plowed like Tireman or binge watching MASH and Seinfeld.
Maybe because the scale is so large, they seem to be communicating the layoffs much faster, at least for US employees, than they have in the past (if most people will know this week).
They don't care at all. That's it. As long as their multimillion $ keeps on coming they don't give a flying fcuk.