The corporate labs had a reorg and layoff. I heard that there are others let goboutside the lab as well. What other areas had layoffs this year?
AI Retirement
What is everyone going to do in 18 months once AI retires us? Golf?
Acquisitions?
Any good acquisitions being looked at for growth in sales and gathering new innovations? For the right price Solventum could be a good value.
Ode to the deceased P4P statement
Remember the Pay for Performance statement? Them were the days! You could see well in advance your AIP and the date it was being deposited. At this point so far into February, I am not even sure we are getting AIP this year. And no, trolls, I am not... — read more
Governance tightening — outcomes?
With decisions centralising and more governance and finance leadership coming in, what outcomes have people seen in similar situations — tighter oversight only, portfolio moves, or does this usually end in restructuring and layoffs?
RTO is ki-ling our talent pool
Yet another talented colleague who was hired in the remote-first era has left. They couldn't get promoted without agreeing to move to Minnesota. They were hired in the "Work Your Way is permanent!" era, and were assured during the hiring process that... — read more
What's up with the new people?
Is anyone else noticing that the recent hires seem totally unprepared? They don't have the skills, they don't seem motivated, and we're spending all our time training them on basics they should already know. Can we get some competent new hires... — read more
CRL Organizational Structure Change
Does anyone have any details on this? There's a formal meeting about it tomorrow evidently.
Who is next to go after Detroit?
2 plant closings announced in the past few weeks. What plant will be next?
Most Useless Area/Sub-Area of 3M IT?
My take is that Services & Strategy is the most useless area of IT thanks to the SVP that Smurphy hired (surprise surprise). All they have done is introduced a dumpster fire of a process to "manage" demand and a half-baked attempt to prepare for RTO... — read more
Get out now
This company is failing. If you have any other options, you should take them immediately. There's no future here.
AIP
Still no news of AIP payout quantum? Whats taking them so long to share with the employees?? Hmm.
Ethics and Compliance training
Anybody else offended by the latest and greatest training. It’s kinda gross! I’m offended.
I'm no longer worried about layoffs
I'm so tired from doing too much work for no reward that I'd see being cut as a blessing. Bring it on, I say.
Hiring freeze?
Just heard that SIBG went into a hiring freeze in January. Widespread or just SIBG?
My boss is getting replaced
It hasn't been announced yet, but the writing is on the wall. I'm not sad to see him go; he's a terrible leader and generally incompetent, but now we're likely to report to his self-serving lackey. Out of the frying pan, into a similar frying... — read more
Plant Layoffs (Detroit)
Can confirm the Detroit plant received shut down notice. Any other plants?
Let's hear your most unhinged stories
I'm curious what the most outrageous thing is to happen to you or that you experienced at 3M?
CEO huddle
Pretty clear Bill only cares about share price. He gets a question about ICE and he just waffles and rambles about how we need to be calm. He gets a question about culture and he barfs out a word salad about safety.
TEBG?
What's happening with TEBG? Heard of a re-org for the marketers. Does this mean layoffs/restructure?
New ESC president
Welcome to 3M
Q4'25 earnings call
Looks like getting beaten down
Any thoughts on the next major round?
There was some talk about February, if I remember correctly, has there been any more mentions of that?
Layoffs: 1 at a time
Hearing of several one-off layoffs. One person in a department vanishes. ESC. Seems like a week ago was a layoff week. Labs are adding people, ESC is tossing people. Discouraging. Frustrating. What are other people hearing? I can count 5 in... — read more
EPR ranking
Got my fkn 2 and tons of BS from my manager. Post your result if you want
Bill Brown ramps up surveillance
I've heard from several corp. colleagues that this movo company has been contracted by 3M. Here's the website: https://movo.co/ If so, this would mean all trust is gone. Can someone comment if this is true?
Congrats Springfield
Springfield just voted to unionize with USW. Congratulations to everyone there, I hope the other non-union plants soon follow suit.
Enjoy your new safety standard
The veep of corporate environment and his analyst are certified donkeys. Operations and maintenance now have one standard for safety while lab personnel have another. The double standard is bad enough but the actual standard is stupid as well. This... — read more
aip
Any rough ideas on AIP this year? with tariffs dominating the profit margin but still had profits curious if AIP will be good this year or if they'll dip it with taxes to blame.
Feeling sidelined and undermined
Lately, it’s like I’m being pushed out without anyone saying it outright. Whenever I ask questions about a process, I get shut down and told to just figure it out. I’m not given the same time to learn new tasks as others, and when I flagged a... — read more
3M Layoffs 2026
Anyone would care to chime in with a prediction about potential 3M layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
Wonewok sells for...$4 million (was valued 10 to 15 million)
Perhaps the final coup de grace from the (fall of the) Roman Empire. Mikey got rid of a beloved retreat. BB must need the money for more share buy backs. At least the guy who bought it seems to love vacationing in northern Minnesota. It would... — read more
Thank you for my packet of chocolate for the UK!
Please give the money to charity in the future instead of insulting your employees who have delivered everything for the company.
I've decided it's time for me to move on
After a lot of thinking, I've accepted an offer from a new company. It was tough, but the layoffs and lack of any real path forward here made the choice clearer. I'm really looking forward to a fresh start where I can actually focus on doing good... — read more
Rating process
How is the "new & improved" rating process going for my fellow managers? Nothing like robbing Peter to pay Paul. How is this not a process filled with managers playing favorites? It is the most subjective process ever, and the end result will be a... — read more
Voice of the Employee Survey
Has anyone actually heard from leadership (your boss, VPs, Presidents, etc) about the VoE survey at all? They published a high-level review of the results and promised to talk about it with us, and here we are months later without a single word... — read more
Layoffs
Did anybody realize last week's layoffs were coming? For me, it completely came out of the blue. Now I'm even more nervous that it can happen any day without warning, and it's not helping my mental health at all.
Layoffs coming in IBO and GSCs
Town hall this morning announced that we're going to combine IBO and the GSCs, and that we will eliminate some redundancies. Buckle up, it's time for another round of musical chairs aboard the RMS Titanic.
I see no future left with this place
The fanatical obsession with meeting next quarter's numbers to mollify Wall Street is diametrically opposed to being a strong innovation company. The linkage between end customers and CRL and Divisions was very strong for decades. It covered all... — read more