My two cents here, I've moved on but randomly find this site dealing with 3M layoffs in Austin - I have some experience here. I was for the group that was a new acquisition and it was pretty bad, stressful, very political and The random rolling layoffs were a major pain for everyone and many good folks decided to take off before the axe fell and destroyed they whole group. 3M's cool, but this whole setup was not the best for me. I am still in Austin, I am working in marketing for a small online shop.
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The R&D group in 3M Austin has been decimated. All technical people involved have got layoff notice.However the incompetent management in charge still has a job !
This is true in general of the layoffs announced in Oct, 2015. Technical people hit hard with layoffs while management mostly unaffected.
At the end of the day 3M is a technology company. This will adversely affect people doing the actual work ( lab bench technical people) for the company. If this continues, 3M will perhaps go the DuPont way !
It would not be the first time we have layoffs in Austin?