#jobsecurity

Anywhere else, I'd start looking. Now.

First Brands Group, LLC is closing two manufacturing facilities in Kansas. This action impacts 211 workers across sites in Emporia and Edgerton. The company previously filed for bankruptcy in fall 2025. Federal prosecutors indicted two brothers for allegedly defrauding lenders. Local Kansas communities are now mobilizing support for affected employees.

https://www.ksn.com/news/business/layoffs-impact-hundreds-of-manufacturing-workers-in-kansas/

C3.ai announced job reductions at its headquarters. A WARN document detailed 71 impacted employees. The layoffs impacted data science and engineering staff. The company seeks a turnaround amid financial challenges. Its revenue and stock value have both fallen.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/c3-ai-layoffs-21939617.php

Were you able to find new jobs? I was just laid off, and the job market looks daunting. I could really use some positive news.

Were you in a hub or nonhub?

Is it common to have to re-interview for your current position if there is a buyout? If it's a bigger company like Amazon that acquire, can I ask for a raise right away? I figure they might be afraid of a mass Exodus and would like to pay extra to keep experienced workers?

Eight companies plan to lay off over 850 employees in South Carolina. These job cuts stem from January 2026 WARN Act filings. Milliken & Company will close its Cedar Hill Plant, affecting 126 workers. James Hardie Building Products will eliminate 78 jobs at its Summerville plant. eSupply Chain DLH accounts for 327 layoffs in Charleston.

https://mebaneenterprise.com/850-south-carolina-workers-face-layoffs-as-8-firms-announce-closures-full-list/

SF isn’t going anywhere: she appears committed to steering the company in the wrong direction, alongside her puppet minions; Toohey, Kehoe and Beatty.

We exceeded our targets largely because we reduced the workforce by 15k. The employees who remain are carrying significantly heavier workloads, with more responsibilities on their plates and no meaningful automation or improved processes to support them. New ways of working is just a facade.

We’ve invested millions in McKinsey, including commissions tied to projected savings effectively keeping them afloat only to see consultants and leadership reverse course on recommendations made two to three years ago. Well done Chief Executive officer and Chief financial officer!

We position ourselves as a global company, yet we don’t truly operate like one. Investment in senior roles and promotions is heavily concentrated in the U.S., while long-standing employees in other regions are seeing their roles downgraded and the value of their careers diminished. Let’s applaud our chief of people!

There also seems to be a disconnect even a sense of delusion in celebrating a 73% “recommend as a place to work” score. Many employees are worried about job security, have seen benefits reduced, and are under constant pressure from managers to “just get on with it.” The prevailing sentiment is that FIS does not genuinely care about its people. Well done chief of people!

And yet, we’re setting a goal to increase client NPS by 10 points. We’re still in negative territory the ambition appears to be to frustrate clients slightly less, rather than meaningfully improve their experience. Well done chief of clients!

Intel's next scheduled major job eliminations for 2026 are set to take effect on July 15, 2026. These cuts specifically impact manufacturing hubs, including four campuses in Oregon, where worker counts for this round jumped nearly fivefold to approximately 2,400 roles.
This 2026 wave is part of a broader initiative to slash an additional $1 billion in operating expenses throughout the year to reach a target global headcount of approximately 75,000 employees.

I recently started as a new graduate with under a year of experience. How likely is it that I could be laid off? I would provide more details, but I am concerned about revealing my identity.

I applied for an Administrative position there and got an interview scheduled. Should I even bother?? Are layoffs common there?
I'm dealing with my 5th layoff due to corporate restructuring - I can't handle another unstable workplace!
Should I just cancel???

If I'm laid off, I have to deal with one of the worst job markets in a long while but at least there's severance to lessen the pain. If I'm not laid off but others on my team are, at least I'll still have a job but at what price? We'll be expected to pick up the extra work and I highly doubt we'll be getting any kind of extra compensation. And I'm overworked as it is. There's really no good option here.

I left Cigna couple of years ago and there is an opportunity coming my way to join back. Honestly, I am tempted as I am 5 days a week in person in my current workplace. Going back to 3 days will be a big time saver . I also live just 10 mins away . But looking at the recent posts, I am not sure if I will regret this choice.

FTI Buyer LLC plans to permanently close its Cincinnati facility, laying off 104 employees. The online auction marketplace will shut down operations on March 6, with terminations occurring on or around that date.The company said the closure follows efforts to modernize operations and move toward a more efficient, decentralized distribution network.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/01/a-major-online-auction-operator-is-closing-ohio-facility-more-than-100-jobs-to-be-cut.html

Fifteen-plus years here, and things have been sliding downhill for so long that I now doubt even those first couple of years. How did we hit such lows so fast? Workers have never been treated as more disposable and worthless than they are now. It feels like we're approaching the moment when the whole thing spectacularly collapses. And what a disappointing, sad career arc - a steady decline, likely ending in a layoff where your years of contribution are never even acknowledged.

CHS Northwest announced the sale of four Washington stores. This includes the Bellingham Farm & Home store. A total of 38 employees will be laid off across these locations. Layoffs for the Bellingham store will take effect April 19. The company hopes stores remain open under new ownership.

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/business/article314779957.html

Several projects people have left or are leaving to work data centers. Will this continue. Seems lots in news. These jobs are all over LinkedIn and recruiters have even mentioned companys targeting Exxon people. Guess all that fluffing of our projects in earnings calls is good! Ha.

(And I know someone on our LcS project who told me our work is not actually the datacenter. )

From what I’ve heard and found online the total compensation could be better for mid career people.?? Seems slightly less base salary. But a lot more bonuses and stock and vests much sooner. Anyone have real insight on that?? And don’t let exxons sandbagging position titles fool you. I’m a ‘project engineer’ but would be at least project manager elsewhere and so loook at right jobs/comps for your years

The article reports significant job reductions. Spudnik, a company based in Blackfoot, confirmed these cuts. A letter was released by the company. This letter detailed the job reductions. The specific number of affected employees was not stated.

https://localnews8.com/news/2026/02/20/mass-layoffs-reported-at-blackfoots-spudnik-company-releases-letter-confirming-job-cuts/

We're not done, folks.

Cigna Evernorth Services - Morris Plains

4/29/26
5/3/26
5/20/26

134 Roles

https://www.nj.gov/labor/assets/PDFs/WARN/2026_WARN_Notice_Archive.pdf

Lowe's recently announced a round of mass layoffs. These layoffs will impact many employees. Dozens of Georgia-based staff are affected. The company made this announcement. Georgia workers face job reductions.

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2026/02/19/lowes-mass-layoffs-impact-georgia.html

Good luck to everyone who’s been affected.

The first blow is the shock. Not the gentle kind, but the kind that steals the air from your lungs. You’re first, first to fall, first to be told so there’s no reference point. No one ahead of you to say, this hurts, but it passes. No map to follow, no example to copy. Just you, standing alone, trying to understand how everything changed in a single conversation. There’s embarrassment too, a quiet, creeping shame that settles in despite the evidence of your performance. Logic tells you this isn’t about capability, but emotion whispers otherwise: you weren’t good enough.

Then comes the silence. HR goes quiet, so quiet it rings in your ears. Colleagues might offer a few kind words, if they’re allowed to, if they dare but the hardest truth is how many don’t. Not a LinkedIn message. Not a text. Not even a line in response to your goodbye email, assuming you were granted the dignity of sending one before your access disappeared. You sit there, staring into nothing, suspended between disbelief and reality. Did this really just happen? Hopelessness seeps in. You replay conversations, scan the past for signs, circle the same question again and again: why me?

And then something else surfaces. Rage. Sudden, blinding rage. At the decision. At the decision makers who you know deserved this outcome far more than you ever did. But rage has nowhere to go. It burns hot, then fades, leaving you with the truth you can’t avoid: this is real, and now you must act. Job hunting can no longer be passive or polite, it has to be treated with the urgency of a serious diagnosis. Survival mode. Strategy. Momentum.

This is the con of being first. But it’s not the whole story. Because for those who were first, there is something else too, something only visible once the dust settles. There is light at the end of the tunnel. And eventually, you’ll realise you didn’t just survive the fall. You were already walking toward something better.

https://youtu.be/VlfpfttvatQ?si=I_LgN8bn8RqFvj4U

I'm in PI and feel like it's only a matter of time. They already introduced an ai system that tracks and grades all of our calls last year... wouldn't be surprised if they're training an llm off of thousands of the top rated calls catalogued across the company.

CoStar Group conducted another round of layoffs at its Richmond headquarters. These job cuts impacted employees on its Homes.com platform. The company cited advanced AI technology deployment as the reason for the reductions. This marks the second major layoff event in less than a year for the real estate technology firm. CoStar's stock price has recently declined significantly.

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/costar-layoffs-richmond-feb-18-2026

Everyone sees the writing on the wall Get out while you can! This is as bad as it can get in luxury retail.

Are we safe for a month? Two months? The rest of the year?

I’ll admit that I have been very unmotivated to do any work the last few weeks. The rest of my year will probably be the same if I make past tomorrow.

In the 2 months displacement notice period, it says it is non-working. Does that also mean we can't work for another company?

22% raise while the masses get ran off to pay for it. Every single employee is a pawn, a commodity to be used traded and discarded at will. You are no more to her than stapler.

AI promises were made and it did not work out. It will eventually but AI did not bear the fruit (money) that was promised. We’ll have AI in place and it’ll replace “x” number of employees this year. It did not work but even still gotta run off the people to save at least some of the money that was promised. So…YOU are on the chopping block.

Meanwhile, Jane raise\bonus is locked in at the cost of your job. She’s laughing at the fact that you are paying the price and not her.
Those that are left behind the carnage will be worked to death to pick up the slack and again she will chuckle. You guys need to get past the point that she does not care what you do, say, think, suffer through or feel. You are such a non-concern to her much like a discarded bottle cap that you and your well being does not even register as a thought to her. She came from McKinsey for which their sole purpose in life was to help CEO’s determine the best way to sell laying people off for optics.

My advice to tech….leave on your own terms as soon as you can. Be willing to move elsewhere for the same pay and maybe even settle for less but at least you won’t be blindsided. Yes, I am aware it takes a very long time to find something so start searching now rather than after the axe falls. Skill up and go. Either Citi sees the value you bring to the table or they don’t and some other company will. Try branching out to other sectors. As said before a tech person at Citi is not exclusively locked in only to the banking sector. There are other sectors that also use PowerBi, SQL, Exchange, various vendor firewalls, routers, switches, cluster, AD, etc….. crazy, I know, but Citi is not the only ones that uses various technologies. Give other sectors more than a passing glance.

Over 800 New Jersey employees are impacted by recent workforce changes. Retail and banking sectors saw substantial job reductions. JPMorganChase plans to terminate 120 workers in Jersey City. Target expects 107 layoffs across Central and South Jersey. Walmart will relocate 100 Hoboken employees or face terminations.

https://www.roi-nj.com/2026/02/17/economy/warn-update-early-february-workforce-changes-affect-hundreds-across-new-jersey/

Amazon eliminated 1,545 positions in Illinois this January. These layoffs resulted from the closure of multiple Amazon Fresh and Go stores. These job cuts represented the majority of over 2,000 total state layoffs. The affected areas were primarily Chicago's suburban counties. Illinois law mandates employer notification for such significant layoffs.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/amazon-fresh-cuts-1545-illinois-jobs-in-january/

LA Semiconductor may permanently terminate up to 350 jobs. This could occur by April 10, 2026, if a facility sale fails. The company issued a WARN notice to the Idaho Department of Labor. A law firm is investigating potential violations of the WARN Act. The Pocatello facility's sale is overseen by a court-appointed receiver.

https://www.eastidahonews.com/2026/02/possibility-of-350-permanent-layoffs-looming-at-la-semiconductor-in-pocatello/

everytime I log onto linkedin basically every other post is someone posting something about being laid off and its terrible. if we get a roughly 30 percent unemployment rate like many people think what does that mean for our own jobs

Hey everyone, I'm an incoming intern for L3Harris and stumbled across this forum. It seems like most people here are knowledgeable about the state of the company. I'm not sure how often the company converts interns to full time, but I was wondering if L3Harris is a solid place to start a career if I were to receive an offer. The rise of AI is also scary, and I'm not sure how stable an entry level job at the company would be. Any insights would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Barclays' new chief executive announced a fresh course for the British lender. He pledged to cut at least 3,700 jobs. The bank will also prune its investment banking division. This aims to rebuild its reputation and boost profitability. The CEO stated ethics would now precede earnings.

https://www.aol.com/news/2013-02-12-barclays-job-cuts-layoffs.html

UK unemployment reached 5.2%, a five-year high. The retail sector lost 74,000 jobs year-on-year. Businesses attribute these job losses to higher labor costs. Increased National Insurance contributions and minimum wage hikes impacted hiring. Younger workers and consumer-facing businesses are most affected.

https://internetretailing.net/retail-layoffs-mount-as-uk-unemployment-climbs-to-five-year-peak/

UK

The AI used by companies is called an enterprise AI system. It capture everything typed on your company computer, and what programs are used by the employees to train itself. These systems record your interactions like the programs you write, the documents you create, and the queries you run.

The company tracks and then claim ownership of every keystroke you make within the digital realm, every idea you document and every tool you build. It identifies what approaches worked best, what email you sent and received and the language that got responses. All that knowledge can become part of the company’s AI, it eventually know, down to increasingly fine details, how you do your job.

The AI can pass that information along to anybody else who wants to do your job, or just do the job itself. Over time, you are easily replaceable

It's going to be he-l waiting and guessing if my location is closing. I like my job. I've been here for seven years. I hate even the thought of having to look for something else. We might not be the most high volume store, but we're doing well enough. Should I be worried?

Many of us got an email today stating that we are to start evaluating AI responses and tagging cases so that we can give feedback as to why articles are not leading to resolutions.

It is being framed like AI is going to be a tool that helps us do our jobs better. It is very clear that we are training our replacements.

It would be wise for anyone in support to start coming up with a plan b.

Did anyone relocate with only T’s salary sacrificing your spouse’s job? How are your families dealing with this huge change, knowing T’s job is still vulnerable?