Thread regarding Rockwell Automation Inc. layoffs

Is this really helping the bottom line?

Before I left in Jan 2024, there were a few shadow layoffs in late 2023. At that point the writing was on the wall for me, people that excelled at what they did with a bunch of experience 15-20yrs were laid off. It was basically these people are being paid too much money and we are going to transition their work offshore. The issue with that is it took 2-3 offshore folk to absorb that 1 persons work and they still are coming up to speed when I left. Looks good to the shareholders but is it really helping the bottom line? No one really looks at the hidden costs to offshoring that go beyond a simple salary. I don't really thin RA is different than many other large corps. I will glad to retire someday from that rat race.

@1zzl+1sOyXUis makes an excellent point.

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I left in March 24 right before the major RIFs started happening, and I just had this intuition that something was off. From the “delay” in merit, to the report in Dec 2023 of another record year for RA, and the fact that we were already being told to slow down on spend in the 2nd quarter….glad I got out when I did.

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Post ID: @1xzgu+1ti1Ym30

Blake has proven an inept leader. He was only ever a sales wa-k. These layoffs are because he mismanaged post COVID supply chain. Buttermore and Scotty g will be fired soon. Blake just fired or drives out people as he stays one step ahead of an activist invested. These cuts are just to shore up eps, which is a short term goal. He won’t take a bonus like the rest of you shlubs, but he will get a sh-t ton of stock. I worked for him and saw him up close. Immature, irrational and stupid. And now all the good leadership has departed. Next stop-acquired but someone bigger.

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Post ID: @2rgy+1ti1Ym30

The era of CoVId pandemic proved to be a perfect opportunity to test out which NA positions that can be performed fully remote and later to be outsourced.

All NA remote positions will eventually be outsourced (likely India).

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