I heard there were a lot of layoffs today, including Norwood. Anyone else hear anything?

how many in india and CDK Europe get let go? was it a big impact?

Layoffs are not done, and according to a contact I have in HR, they will now be accelerating, cyclically, perhaps monthly as top management positions the company for sale. My source indicated that "upwards of 500" employees were sacked yesterday... — read more 

The company was silent about it again. No one knows exactly who was effected. From what it sounds like, it was a long list.

Anyone?

They are hiring OPT and firing staff. I am not sure whether it is legal. I am not sure whether immigration questions the company. As per rules they cannot fire employees and hire OPT.

8 out of 29 position in CVR R&D laid off Funny thing is out of 17 left, 4 are managers

Someone else mentioned it in another thread, but they are switching to a swarming model of support which makes it easier to outsource. I have heard rumors of a plan to eventually send most of support to India. Cincinnati was trotted out at this... — read more 

Layoffs are done for now but stress is high a persons schedule changes every 8 weeks if new they are low on the list and work late shift like 11-8 or 11:30-8:30 or 10- 7 morale is low really low lots of people going to India to train new hires it's a... — read more 

Do you know if Support Positions in the new Cincinnati office are to be laid off any time soon. I know someone who is currently interviewing and while I hold that the person should be very careful, not everyone shares my caution as it relates to CDK... — read more 

I heard a rumor about 2 separate 'off the floor" and "hotel bar" conversations at NADA or NAMUG with reps from 2 of CDK's top 10 customers. It seems as if these customers are concerned about CDK's direction and were asking questions and expressing... — read more 

Looks like this year layoffs have begun. Any comments from affected teams???

Oh, there will be more layoffs in the U.S. Likely in March or April. The people who understand our products, and our customers needs are begin let go, and replaced with Indian CDK'ers, who are nice people, but notoriously slow and inaccurate with... — read more 

Officials from cdk india offices have been in u.s. offices evaluating what jobs could be moved out of the us. Rumor is in 2 years they want to offshore the majority of u.s. jobs, in particular R&D. Strategy seems to be coming from MacDonald level... — read more 

CDK just announced they will be closing another North American office - this one in Montreal. Employees that will be losing their jobs in December are being forced to participate in "knowledge transfers" to, you guessed it, India. Although this round... — read more 

It's funny because they were advertising a new office... and the job postings were up on their site and I was going to apply but it said "sorry, we're moving our job postings to a new website" (or something like that)... so I thought it was a glitch... — read more 

Sad to see such a great company lose its most talented people all in the name of satisfying the hedge fund masters. No one seems to care new hires don't understand the core business. Bench seating, bastardized Agile processes, lack of direction from... — read more