Last year all was good, now all of the sudden, people are complaining and there are rumors about layoffs Springdale.
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Is it true our new CTO just met and hired a guy at the local waffle house and brought him onto a team and into the room with a group that was just ripped to shreds by the cuts last week -- all without going through any sort of usual vetting process? Wow. Do they not see how this plays or do they just not care? As for me and my family, we're done. I'll take all the new developer training I can get for another few months then see ya. Tyson's just become any other company with a leadership team that is too arrogant or too stupid to get it.
What morons would completely reorganize the entire division, move the majority of their highly technical staff to new teams and new managers, and then tell them Oh wait -- but you really just need to do your old job on Philadelphia for at least another year or so, regardless of what your new manager and new leadership teams are telling you. How does that benefit the team member or Tyson IT as a whole in the long term? I get the sense these leaders have never truly managed or experienced the joys of matrixed organizations and are completely ineffectual if they think the best who remain have any faith in their ability to lead. Take away a critical connection (old team) and then with next brush stroke make many of them a handicap to their new team. Yeah -- that's going to work. Well done Scott.
It's not rumors anymore, it's a fact. Jobs are being eliminated!
Layoffs are happening now! First heard 600 to 1,000 but last rumor has it that up 1,100 people are being cut.
I've heard rumors of layoffs within the past two weeks at HQ.
More and more corporate jobs are moving to Chicago. If you work in ISD, Food Service or supply chain you have a good chance of staying in Springdale. Retail/Packaged is centralizing in Chicago. That's where all the "talent" is located afterall. From what I understand HR leadership has an utter disdain for Springdale team members and thinks they are a bunch of dumb rednecks. Tyson Foods acquired Hillshire Brands two years ago and Hillshire is taking over the company. Maybe HR leadership is right... Overall still a good company to work for given all the recent changes and forthcoming changes. Plenty of good people and leadership sticking around though lots of turnover right now at Corporate. I don't know that layoffs are imminent but we will be expected to be more flexible in assignment and location. Tyson is a very lean company with regard to staffing.