Vivify is nothing but an attempt to reduce the number of employees

How many of us sat in those meetings where upper, upper management tried to describe Vivify with fluffy terms like optimization and synergy and co-location and benefits. After these descriptions, I'd just be sitting there scratching my head. It all sounded very dubious,.

At this point, with the benefit of hindsight, it's clear Vivify is just an attempt to reduce the number of employees. It truly does not appear to be much more than that.

Couldn't they just have said, "We're interested in gutting the number of people working here. We're trying to figure out how to dump as much work as possible on individual workers, so we're also looking at things like co-location and role consolidation. If you can't do 5 things, at least 3 of them involving hands-on technical knowledge of a tool or IDE, you're probably history. Start packing your bags, sunshine."

I mean, it would have been more honest.

Bumped from @PA2R4UY-eney, completely on point.

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Yes, demutualizing is what I suspect.

We'll find out in a few years if I was right.

IF that's the case, here's what you can expect: for the next few years, your immediate supervisors will continue to care very much if your work gets done. What they don't realize is that somewhere in the rarified air of upper management, no one cares.

So very little actual work will get done because the organization will be completely unresponsive to anything that doesn't make the company more attractive from a bottom line "sale" perspective. And I hate to break it to the individual business areas, but a shiny new widget for agents or a splashy GUI on SF.COM does NOT make this company more appealing on the balance sheet.

So, your immediate supervisors will spend the next few years vexed, perplexed, and panicked that they have less and less to show their superiors, while you -- the technical rank and file -- face the brunt of their frustration. Good times ahead.

Then the day will come when the end-game finally reveals itself.

You don't want to be there when it happens.

Demutualization?

I agree with this OP.

Their goal is reducing cost, quickly and dramatically. Cost is tied to salaries. Ergo, their goal is reducing salaries.

Something else to ask yourself: WHY does State Farm desperately need to cut costs quickly and dramatically?

In my opinion, the people who remain at State Farm when the re-org is done remain on very shaky ground. Something else is going on here. Something employees won't be told until the moment it happens.

Very true

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