"Milligan said WD has been scaling down HDD capacity on a brick-and-mortar and head-count basis to react to the decline in the HDD market. He said WD had taken out 20% of its facilities and 25% of its head count during the last two years. Milligan said WD plans further reductions of up to one-third."
Read the full article at http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/blog/Storage-Soup/Seagate-WD-see-exabyte-growth-with-high-capacity-enterprise-HDDs
You have to do what is best for your family and yourself. The company will not help you find another job if you get laid off.
My director kept reassuring us there are no more layoffs in SG site but i kept hearing people from other depts leaving. Anyone can advise?
What is the date? Is the engineering day cancellation (scale-back) because the two events are too close?
Good luck, everyone. May the Force be with you, wherever you go !
Good Luck all ! Stay positive ! Some of you will move on to rewarding challenges at a new company. Some to retirement. Some new careers. But you will survive.
Europe layoffs were done step by step within the last 2 years nearly each quarter. Therefore anyone got hardly aware about how many guys were laid off. PR + social media "disappeared" overnight from one of the European offices. We are expecting next layoffs September. What we are all aware of is the incompetent handling of HR Europe, not only firing but insulting people and not even taking care of the laws concerning pregnant women.
On July, ~70% got impacted from Sandisk Enterprise SSD marketing.
When did Europe lay off? This week?
Europe lost already at least 15% top people, most from managment, technics.
Not global only US, WD Irvine and HGST SSD, too many overlaps with sandisk
20% global? How about WD US site? Any impact to Sandisk?
Twenty percent from beginning of September to November
When are the cuts planned? Any idea on the timeframe ?
I'm seeing that in my (former) department. Some of us got laid off. A bunch of others watched us booted out of the building w/no notice, and decided they'd rather leave on their own terms...
The good news is that some people have already left. They decided to control their own destiny !