#communication

I can't believe something like that is happening in freaking 2026. They don't even try to pretend they care anymore, they're just playing A RECORDED VIDEO with announcement basically saying "fu-k you all". Don't we at least deserve a stupid standard teams call with any possibility to speak up?????? #GSCPL

Link dropped in our emails. Let him have it.

Sent an email to them yesterday afternoon with zero response yet aside from the auto generated one. Is this everyone else’s experience?

So leadership has changed but the new CISO is someone who just can't stop talking. Sheesh...

This morning's memo from SK is effectively confirmation of everything we have been discussing. In corporate communications, an executive letter like this is called a "Pre-Announcement Framework."

When a CEO writes a long, weirdly emotional, metaphor-heavy letter (the fishing analogies, "caring family," "peace of mind") to the entire continent, it is designed to soften the blow for what is coming next.

Strip away the awkward language ("gently turn," "beautifully evolve") and look at the cold corporate math, this letter lays out the exact roadmap for the upcoming RIF. And it was painfully obvious.

anyone experience changing from company cell phones to the new AWS phone system where they track and record your calls? Why are they doing this? And they want us to connect with Ethernet cables now….are we in 1999?

If you're smart enough to read between the lines,

More people are going to be cut next quarter where people remaining have to adjust to the new normal

Why tf they can't just tell us directly??

So our claims team hasn't had our monthly team meeting with our director in the last 3 months..all he did was talk the #'s of the dept and bits of info and give people there anniversary props who had one. then we would a a Q&A...he was so prompt about this but its changed over the last few months...has anyone had anything similar with thier depts over the last few months also??

Does anyone has the slightest idea what whoever works in the Ai foundry are doing ? Radio Factset says we won't tell you bunch of stupid people.

What’s going on in finance? Upstream CFO quits then a lot of mid-career hipos quit. No word from management on what’s going on

Starting a new thread to keep track of ETIPS layoffs. Layoffs coming for legacy applications, which application / department are you working with? Any layoff rumors? I am with a legacy CRM and we have no work. Pretty sure layoff are coming based on the way my manager is behaving... No meetings , no communication lately.

Another Friday email about MCP. The fifth? Tenth? Who knows anymore. The topic changes slightly, but the result is always the same: lots of buzzwords, very little substance, and almost nothing employees actually care about. Same goes for Radio FactSet.

Meanwhile, layoffs happened this week and didn’t deserve a single mention. Is the CEO genuinely aware of what’s happening inside the company, or is he too busy writing thought pieces about AI? The disconnect is becoming impossible to ignore.

Last week my tram was told that they are monitoring our AI usage and those that are not using it at are risk. We were shown a dashboard that tracks general ChatGPT usage and Codex usage.

This week an email comes out instructing us on the proper use of AI, which model to select based on usage cost.

So wait, you want us to use it but in the same breath you are worried about the usage cost?

Id--ts

It's harder to stay focused because nobody seems sure what the plan is anymore. We're still doing the work, but we're being kept in the dark on so many things. I'm getting really, really tired of it.

I come into work every day wondering if something is about to change and nobody says a word. The lack of communication about job security is becoming exhausting.

Confirmed cuts are coming this fall, although this won't be sudden.

Impacted folks will be communicated that they have X number of weeks to transition into a new role within fidelity or negotiate severance.

Some folks will be given till end of year to figure out their fate.

The list is already in the process and your skip level will communicate the decision to you.

Since I was notified that my last day is June 5th, I have not been contacted by anyone. My immediate supervisor has not been contacted by anyone. He has never been told by anyone that I have been laid off. I find this to be absolutely ludicrous and completely ridiculous, but I have not heard from anyone regarding any closing process. Is there any kind of interview? Exit interview or anything? Is this normal for me not to have heard anything?

In the current climate of layoffs, no one wants to speak up, even when senior management is demonstrably wrong about the root cause of an issue. But hey, we told the regulators before we did any work, ergo it must be true right?

DL mentioned on the Global Solutions all team call that apparently Claude Code access was only meant for him and a few others at AVP/SVP level - instead, everyone that ultimately report to them globally got access. I wonder what the actualy budget was?

Any thoughts on the town hall yesterday? Lots of teamwork and buckle up talk but nothing of substance.

Honestly, are there any other teams that have management that just regurgitates whatever Claude spits out at them? It’s really hard to take anyone seriously when they don’t even do their own writing, problem solving and communication. It’s obviously a balance, but I literally don’t have any trust left for reading anything anymore.

This trimester update shows how pathetic she is. She is literally just reading off of an ipad. She sounds like a teenager reading a story book to a toddler. I just can't with this...

After 6.5 years of successful remote and hybrid work, leadership decided employees must return to the office more than half the time. Despite years of strong performance, increased productivity, and record results, management couldn't even provide a basic explanation for the decision.

The announcement itself perfectly reflected the company's culture. After months of rumors and speculation, employees were informed through a Teams meeting while many of us were already sitting in the office. Cameras were off. Employees were muted. Questions were not answered. Instead, we were told to ask our managers for information that leadership should have communicated directly.

The return-to-office rollout has been just as poorly executed. Some employees have been separated from their managers, collaboration has become more difficult, and basic equipment and workspace issues remain unresolved. Apparently, requiring people to commute was a higher priority than ensuring they had functional tools to do their jobs.
What makes this especially frustrating is that employees spent years proving that remote and hybrid work could be successful. The company benefited from our flexibility, commitment, and results. Now we're expected to accept a major change without transparency, accountability, or even the courtesy of a meaningful conversation.

This experience has made it clear that employees are viewed as resources to manage, not people to respect!

I've been doing this work for a very, very long time, and the best managers I ever had were the ones who listened more than they talked. They cared about their people and helped us succeed. These days, it's all talk and no substance. I don't even bother with all hands meetings anymore because there's never any real information or direction.

If you request a meeting that includes an executive leader, then confirm their availability and you send the invite! Don’t turn around to my admin assistant and ask them to send the invite. It’s your meeting you own it and my assistant is very busy doing other things that I have asked them to handle (plus, I don’t want all the invites coming from my calendar).

Is the fact there's not much chatter a positive sign or just the calm before the storm?

I've worked at several companies over the years, and I have never seen anything quite like the culture of secrecy that exists here. Management hoards information, doling out tiny scraps only when absolutely necessary. They don't trust any of us to handle bad news or make decisions, so they treat us like children instead of empowering us to do our jobs well. The result is a workforce that's disengaged, frustrated, and constantly in the dark about where the company is actually headed. It's frustrating, to say the least.

Such a step backwards to no longer offer automatic email copies of our paychecks. Why in the world would this functionality be removed?

In a particular work group this morning, a detailed email was sent out instructing team members on how to handle complicated work inquiries. There were bullet points and seven different email points to use. This was done, allegedly to improve efficiency. That afternoon, with no notice at all, the name of the Teams Channel used for the entire group to communicate was changed without notice. Staff searched emails to find the notice. There was none. Finally, a team member posted the obvious question. Why? What happened? Had a notice been missed? A senior leader posted back, "No, there was no notice." Nowadays, it's easy to incite a mild panic. WTF? About an hour later, the senior leader posted again, the name change was to bring it into alliance with other name changes. And yet, no one showed the team the respect that a brief email would have provided. Employees remain an afterthought.

In the past, after the survey, managers would actually share the results with the team. So how about this year’s survey? Because so far, all I’ve heard is absolutely nothing. Please share if you have heard something about the survey.

Time of year I get my checkups done. Of the 3, 2 went straight to AI schedule the appointment. Mentioned it to the receptionists when I arrived. 2 of the 3 had no idea it was implemented at their business. Just noticed the call volume seemed to be down. Wondering how many businesses are using this without making everyone aware that it was taking some of the work from them?

because openly talking about the sh-t show I am experiencing to anyone here puts my job at risk. Communication between the groups is not as good as it was before Nov 2025. Project progress has slowed, keeping up with changes in direction is ridiculous. and trying to keep quality in the contractors' work is, well, impossible (too much to oversee). Leadership should not have wiped out so many good people in that last big layoff. This is my experience. Is it just me, or are others in this market also at their limit?

Sounds like the hammer dropped on several teams yesterday. Of course, no real communication to indicate which teams.

Really cool of the company to not alert us about two people being shot right outside the building this morning. Street blocked off, doors caution taped off, lobby crawling with police and not a peep from anyone at US Bank. We’re in the trenches trying to hit RTO goals.

I hear some managers are addressing with local teams and the results are bad. Why hasn’t c-suite addressed it? Do you think they are waiting for a TH? I would think some short-term communication from the top would really help clear things up and keep everyone aligned on improving the company

The culture that we are getting into right now with teams, and these group pings is absurd. They say it takes 20 minutes to refocus after you’ve been distracted… these silly group pins and constant teams alerts on pinging are so unproductive and frustrating. Just send us an email! Not to mention things keep getting lost in different variations of group groups that are pinging so I literally can’t keep up.

I’m so over teams and all the obnoxious features that come with it that destroy my productivity.

I am one of the so called lucky ones who did not get terminated but put in the redeployment pool and STILL have not heard as they have till June 30. Anyone else hear anything yet?

I am so tired of scrolling past random selfies with captions pretending to be deep insights. What does your pose have to do with industry trends? Nothing. We need LinkedIn to stay useful for networking and opportunities, not become another social feed full of empty posts. This is getting ridiculous.

A friend of mine just got and email title "Strategy Change" from their Sr. Dir. (she is a GL 28) There are no invitees, it's a BCC: It's for 10AM CDT