Thread regarding SAP layoffs

Folks—read the fine print on the survey. Participation is voluntary and confidential. Nowhere does it say anonymous.

@4xic+1uLVXvuH

A board member said that during a Q&A

TS

If you work in California, USA and hear this from your SAP manager (person in charge), take heed:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/business/howard-schultz-starbucks-labor-law?cid=ios_app

Anonymous means not named or identified, Not sure what survey anybody else is taking but the one I take I am neither named or identified.

There is a difference between anonymous and confidential. Your survey responses are not anonymous.

I've been working in SAP for over a decade at an EU location (not Germany), and honestly, these surveys just feel like HR's way of pretending management is listening. In reality, nothing much ever comes from them, especially when the feedback is about the board or SAP as a whole. Every year, we’re told to pick some topic to focus on improving, but it's always something we have zero control over... and then the same thing happens again next year.

SAP has been taking these Employee surveys for about the last 15 years or so. Never have they provided the Employees the ability to sort thru the entire survey and drill down to get better insights on what works and what doesn't.

Only the Managers ( VP and above) get the survey results for their team and also get some insights on comparisons to their overall Board Area and SAP at large. They are supposed to review these with their respective teams, but there is no check as to whether they did this. Why would they if they were the given low ratings? And so in many cases the employees don't get any feedback on the survey results.

The Surveys might have been OK in former times when SAP was a much better place to work. Today it's a different story and the results will show it, hence there will be no dissemination of the results.

And by the way does anybody really believe that SAP doesn't know how each employee is answering the questions in this "anonymous" survey? OR would anybody really "trust" what SAP would push out as the "alleged" results> ........ didn't think so either.

1dip+1uLVXvuH

Totally agree! Well said!

“whatever wants to wear lipstick or can claim their discriminated against…”

I’m pretty sure that the person that posted this comment had been ba----g on about DEI ad infinitum on here for a long time. It’s okay to have an opinion, but does he really have to go on about it and take threads off track everytime?

I’m also wondering if his (And the commenter is certainly male) comments are fueled by a self-loathing of what he truly was born to be and his desire to choose his lipstick at his local Sephora outlet.

Don’t be ashamed, be who you are! You’ll be happier and we won’t have to read your tedious, ill-conceived and overused poor crucified white guy - themed nonsense. It’s simply very boring and devalues every single post / comment that is made here.

1edt+1uLVXvuH
"DEI minions".
Any valid statement you may have made is immediately invalidated by this utterly ignorant statement.
YOU'RE the problem, not the solution.

Everything will be ok. The mess will be swept under the Mental Health Day just around the corner.

Please just stop for a minute and think about how far SAP has fallen in just a few years.

Not that long ago, SAP was rated "Best Workplace in 5 countries", the morale was fantastic, people could not wait to come to work in the morning, we were all proud to say where we worked.

Now look at us.

Just last year Hasso picked a Chairmen from Deloitte and before he even assumed the job he tossed him out. Half of our Executive Board has been fired, one may face civil charges. The company is under investigation by the FBI and Department of Justice.

Today the employees are disgusted with what the Company has turned into. No faith or trust in our Leadership or even our Corporate Strategy. Surely it is time for Hasso and the remaining Executive and Supervisory Board to step aside and let a new generation of Leadership take over, but we should not hold our breath waiting for something like this to happen.

What was once, a place where everyone wanted to work has now become a place where people cannot wait to get out of. What a shame.

How is “Teflon Lloyd Adams” escaping all of this mess? He and his DEI minions are single handedly gutting the North American business.

Great leaders are being moved out and backfilled with whatever wants to wear lipstick or can claim their discriminated against…

When will our Exec team release the full details of the survey for all regions, so we can all see what the employee feedback is?

These results was just for the German based employees, we all want to see what our colleagues in all the countries are saying.

Why take these surveys if they are not going to be made fully transparent. I guess our Board does not want to be embarrassed in the marketplace.

At least SAP is successfully “embedding AI” into its applications! What happens when clients realize that it is a mildly updated “Clippy” clone?

The company is in shambles - the employee survey only shows what many of us already knew. Board members getting thrown out, investigations on serious charges are under way, and where is our CEO??

It's only a matter of time before the stock market returns soften up and then the profit will have to come from even more layoffs. We are in a free fall, the good employees have already left the company and frustration and aggravation will soon take others out as well.

I would give the company no more than 5 more years before it implodes.