I'm interviewing in Richfield for a role. How is BBY doing? Do they layoff often? Which departments are are risk?

Good move to replace Barry as the CEO. She mismanaged the company in many ways. Do you expect more layoffs when Bonfig takes over as CEO?

They used to always be mid March. Then two years ago it was mid April. Is the delay a sign of something? Has anyone else gotten theirs?

Thoughts? Any Best Buy layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

No posts for 2 months.......

Any intel on what the meeting(s) tomorrow are about? More layoffs? Restructuring? Consolidation?

It’s not like we’re entering some golden age of retail. Honestly, I’m terrified of what’s ahead. I’ve been looking for jobs for a couple of months now just to be somewhat prepared, and it’s discouraging. I have no idea how we’re supposed to pay our... — read more 

From what people have been reporting, the number is anything but small.

Best Buy Co. is reducing its workforce across multiple departments, including its Geek Squad technical support team, Bloomberg reports. The consumer electronics retailer confirmed it is laying off employees from both its customer care division and... — read more 

Blood bath

Mutitle stores in Indiana laid off their entire geek squad employees and did it in one big zoom call.

Best Buy layed off the Virtual Autotech and virtual auto tech supervisors in the last week of August and First week of September 2025

Are we guessing record profits and a layoff? Or struggling sales and a layoff?

Does the company not hire people from America anymore?

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retailer-best-buy-boost-india-tech-hub-staff-by-over-40-executive-says-2025-08-08/ The writing is on the wall for engineers in America.

New leadership believes developers are not able to complete deadlines at home. Prepare for a sweeping RTO mandate.

Extremely long. Extremely accurate. https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qzxqcg/best_buy_ethics_concerns/

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/health-tech/mh-best-buy-layoffs-current-health/

He doesn’t do much outside of wasteful spending. Any positive comments on the Wags board is Ginger from the board.

Wtf just happened I just got back from time off and BT is gone! I am now hearing they want to start offshoring the teams

"Against this backdrop, I need to pause a moment to address the topic of tariffs. International trade is critically important to our business and industry. The consumer electronics supply chain is highly global, technical, and complex. China and... — read more 

This thread is for info about potential Best Buy layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

Best Buy carried out another round of layoffs and job restructurings last week, with the company cutting some of its sales staff and reducing the pay for others, according to current and former employees who spoke with The... — read more 

Well there went the project team. It never felt like we were very appreciated anyway, but we’ve been completely dissolved. Good luck to all those project teams.

If you ever wonder about BB's character, just watch how they treat their customers. If that's how they treat their bread and butter, how they treat their staff will come as no surprise. My advice: Read the Hatchet Man's Playbook and/or just plain... — read more 

A friend of mine was let go last week and he told me he was one of many. They didn't even have the decency to do it face to face, he said. It was a call. This is all so messed up. I'm worried that the rest of us might be next, and soon. The folks at... — read more 

Just great, more layoffs announced, but expansion in India to relocate jobs and roles. To be fair why don’t we layoff US executives and off shore those jobs.

Walked into the Coral Springs, FL store today - literally the last day it was open, they didn't prevent anyone from going in, but a bunch of people inside were carrying out the last boxes, pretty depressing sight. Aside from the arrogant attitude of... — read more 

More staff cuts coming. Restructure Project Teams by eliminating positions deemed redundant. 3rd party taking over deployment team tasks.

This is a master thread about Best Buy layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

Many Senior Consultants were let go and they had fat pipelines with $100,000s in play. Phones and laptops were confiscated from the Consultants on Friday, so the clients have no clue that they do not have a Consultant any more. This leads to complete... — read more 

They do not want to pay for that help and that's the problem. And, if they complain about people now they will complain even more. Is the corporate trying to make us even more hated and do they want to generate even more complaints. Anyhow, that's... — read more 

Hey corp folks - please communicate with this. Nobody knows what you are trying to accomplish, where is this taking us, what will happen in a month, a year or five years. Why so secretive? I actually think you have no clue abut this and you are... — read more 

60%+ of the most knowledgeable staff have been terminated. Who will now handle complicated things? Where will the motivation come from? Many folks that are left working have no clue how things work. Who will bring the up to speed? The ASM?

Best Buy will layoff 'hundreds' of workers across more than 900 stores - with staffers who specialize in selling computers and smartphones the first to... — read more 

Best Buy has been laying off people from stores for a while now. I'm guessing the goal is to reduce the number of locations and move to online sales as much as possible. I believe we're looking at store closings like none before down the line... — read more 

I used to work at best buy until the company had decided to liquidate a few positions in the store I was at. Laughable at best they did it just before we had recieved our bonuses/staff party and to top it off the managers of the winning district... — read more