#business

Desperate for business

Does anyone know which non-core BU will sold next? Any confirmed buyers or rumors anyone is hearing? My area has been totally silent about it...

https://business.toshiba.com/news/toshiba-expands-its-high-output-print-portfolio

Harley-Davidson Continues to Lose, Thousands of Employees Threatened with Layoffs

https://voi.id/en/economy/558906

Another massive hit to Away From Home.

JC
2021: ~$15.06 million 
2022: ~$17.26 million 
2023: ~$17.20 million 
2024: ~$26.25 million 
2025: ~$25.10 million 

Employees
2026: ~97,000 employees
2025: 108,000 employees
2024: 120,000 employees
2023: 133,000 employees
2022: 133,000 employees
2021: 158,000 employees

earlier this week I got an API key for Claude Code. my coworker in EMEA got one too. she also got an email from her band 5's chief of staff asking to verify if she still needs to use Microsoft Apps and to present a "convincing and strong business case" for keeping them. are we buying these off the shelf?!

so let me get this straight: we have money to burn for AI (Gemini, VEGAS and now Claude Code amongst more probably) - BUT WE DON'T HAVE MONEY FOR MICROSOFT APPS?!

By numbers, JD grew top-line revenue from $37.4B to $51.4B (+37% overall). EH is driving a revenue contraction from $51.4B to a projected ~$46B (-10% decline).

Numbers don’t lie or drop tears. Winning!

The server business was always more sticky and now is hugely more strategic than storage.
Years of comp plans for lEMC sales focused on pushing unity, powerstore, powermax etc distracted from the real prize of owning the entire data centre. They never understood apps, infrastructure. Just boxes.
If they had focused on overall sales, share of wallet, Dell would have been even more of a powerhouse than today.
Servers were never as high margin as storage, but highly profitable and close enough to matter.

Any guesses on how much worse it is than you think?

I heard that maybe some things at f5 are turning around but liking st the job postings i don’t see a difference or shift in direction

No longer there but curious since this page got quiet since February.

Still getting new meetings scheduled like everything is normal. Maybe layoffs aren't happening? Why are we so sure it's the 31st?

Verizon deal ?

The articles that just came out about the rumors of Citi seeking to acquire a regional bank speculate about PNC and Truist but it will be USB. The McKinsey mafia will ensure Kedia has a role at the combined organization.

All Florida Clinics were told ten minutes ago that all employees must attend a business update meeting at noon today. Any info on what’s happening?

Maybe that'll finally force leadership to step up their game and actually run the business instead of just extracting wealth.

Is another day of Reckoning for VZB mgmt on the horizon?

Thin the herd. Desperately needed. Bring some sanity back to the business.

Thank goodness they spent the money for the visibility in Happy Gilmore. Smart move! All the business pouring in from that is saving jobs and a major factor in the bank's generosity with its employees.

Any information about layoffs for ADE'S in Business Network in Europe?

https://www.businessinsider.com/bny-managers-teams-humans-agentic-ai-digital-employees-robin-vince-2026-3

What happened at 3pm today? Stock took an instant hit. 1.40 to 1.34 in an hour.
Did lean six sigma or the java ui do this? Is it Fat five beta now? Is there a new jdk ui?

WSJ March 20, 2026 4:55 am ET

Goldman Sachs will start a series of small layoffs. These reductions will continue throughout the summer. All business lines within the company are expected to be impacted. This new approach replaces the bank's previous single annual layoff event. Business-line leaders will now determine their own timelines for staff cuts.

https://www.pymnts.com/news/banking/2026/goldman-sachs-replaces-big-annual-layoff-with-targeted-rolling-cuts/

A massive reorg is being planned to reduce business units , and consolidate around AI document management systems. Think Content Server + Aviator.

BoA just signed up to take over all of OBP, making current tenants of 600,000 SF subtenants of BoA i.e. no immediate big expansion but we went from 1.8m SF leased to 2.4m SF total so flex option for the future...perhaps this is to enable the full RTO ?

If an entire online retail sector is bleeding money and racking up consistent losses, why are we still pouring resources into it? Why can’t we let those employees go or redeploy that talent pool into areas where we actually make money?
Our prices are noticeably higher than the competition’s, and we’re a pharmacy company at heart. So why does anyone seriously believe we can go head-to-head with retail giants and win customers?

Nobody is ever going to convince me that competent leadership needs some jack-of-all-trades consultants to improve their business. No chance in he-l an outsider has a clue compared to in-house institutional knowledge and experience.

The new margin guidance is here
This is going to be fun
I can guarantee the business 100% margin
But 100% of nothing

I have been long gone from staples since “sick a more” bought it out. I am quite surprised that staples is still around. I wonder for how long. It does not look like a viable business model any longer.

It seems there has been a lull in layoffs likely due to the latest tantrum. It seems that until he finds something new stateside to fixate on things will be in flux businesswise around the world. Will Dan continue his path or will it be a whole new plan afterwards?

Or is it just that program?

Trulieve, Florida’s largest medical mari--ana company, announced layoffs. Over 50 employees at a Clearwater call center will be affected. The company cited business restructuring for the permanent mass layoff. This decision followed a report of $1.2 billion in 2025 profits. Trulieve also reported record cash flow last year.

https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/trulieve-announces-mass-layoff-at-clearwater-call-center/amp/

Layoffs start next week with SEC business, WFH email sent this afternoon. SEC Tech will be done at a later date.

A former high-flying teammate recently moved into a commercial leader role for Proxxima. I'm not very familiar with the product or its business case - from what I can tell it's meant to be a polymeric replacement for rebar?
What kind of impact can a HiPo make in that business?

Does anyone know what is happening in Small Business/Business Underwriting? Loans are taking days upon weeks for approvals with all stipulations satisfied and members on my team have had their loans tossed to different underwriters constantly. When I have been messaging and emailing the underwriters on my loans there also no response. What is going on?

Ship all tech to ITC that’s fine but don’t leave me at PHK.
ITC is not comfortable talking to the biz or leaders so unless you put it all in their hands, they will defer to those left at PHK.
Has to be all or nothing or you have a few at PHK doing all the legwork with wasted money in ITC.

Did anyone get it yet ?