#layoffs

SAP has been keeping a close eye on how Joule and AI agents are being used within the company. They also track the time employees spend and the links they click on SAP product pages. Layoffs are on the horizon, and they’ll be viewed positively if they demonstrate AI efficiency. It’s easier for the executive board and HR to justify cutting 10% of the workforce by claiming that Joule has made us more efficient. This narrative is the best SAP can present at Sapphire. To enhance this story, Sapphire's theme revolves around two main points. First, we have a wealth of data on employee performance, which is stored in a global repository for decision-making. Performance Management majes it easier of course. Second, AI can analyze raw data to generate insights and recommendations that boost operational efficiency. Although these algorithms are complex, AI agents simplify resource management for 'managers' because of their conversational skills. Now, here’s the kicker: SAP has improved efficiency by reducing its workforce by 10%. That’s a significant win for the Sapphire narrative. In fact, over the past few months, SAP has been promoting SuccessFactors AI and HR-related application AI, with management constantly focusing on operational efficiency.

So why is there skepticism about layoffs? Our executive board has openly stated their desire for layoffs and aims to make the transition tough for employees. The funds for executive bonuses and share buybacks aren’t coming from customers, so they have to come from the workforce. Since customers aren’t buying into the narrative, SAP needs to provide the proof using substantial layoffs. That is the only way the share price will go up and some gullible customers will help improve SAP's cloud backlog.

Overall, not a bad quarter at all! So it was definitely justified that you got a raise that didn’t even keep pace with inflation and the execs got like 15-20% extra. Keep working hard digging your own grave folks. That’s the only way this works.

The plan is that there will only be a skeleton crew in the US once ALL the cutting is done to still claim we are an American company. Farewell Five9, you were once great.

I heard sales people will be targeted as per previous treads but will managers from different departments will be too?

Epam HR and internal big brother tooling make work environment absolutely toxic and anxious. Now we all fight for one position which advertised as “any location”. As a full stack lead, I need to self apply to many so called open roles, to find that i am one of dozens of candidates, pass interviews and find out that my rate card is above SOW. Or someone is better fit, or project postponed, or backfilled etc etc. Total chaos with constant HR pressure, forced vacation days use. I know many people who quit on this torturous conditions like myself

Budgets cut, no new programs - everyone scared to admit (I’m not working on anything) out of fear.

I’m a SD here for 15 years this is as bad as I’ve seen.

It would be a welcomed change to be layed off.

Wells Fargo’s head count has fallen as the company tries to curtail expenses.

The company reported having 201,000 employees at the end of the first quarter, down from 215,000 for the same period last year, a 7% decline.

The bank reported that noninterest expense came in at $14.3 billion for the quarter, up $439 million, or 3%, from the same period last year.

Wells Fargo said personnel expenses rose $119 million due to higher compensation expenses in its wealth management unit where it has thousands of highly-paid financial advisors.

I have heard that 20% of NTWs will be rolled off by 5th May. Is it true? Are they coming back to full timers again after this? When will be the end?

Elon will personally oversee it.

HR is failing. After 35% cuts, the Business isn't happy with there performance. GV is done. JS is now leading learning and talent. He is hiring a consultants to layoff 75% of staff (MW must be interviewing his ethics for being our next CHRO). RP is spending more time with her boy toy than caring about the HRBPs. HRBPs are about to get slayed. All the while, GBS is about to get crushed by AI. LD is LD. She is awful. Needless to say, disfunctional leadership will cause many layoffs this year and next.

Which team and location?

Hope they all get laid off

If we all banded together and we could see the names, sees and ages you better believe there is clear evidence of racism in these layoffs.

I lost two truly competent people on my team - we are certainly going to feel it.

A lot of what OI does is facilitate the functioning of other divisions. I'm not in OI, but OI's work and tech has enabled a lot of the 40-90% headcount cuts to other areas (not that those reductions were always well advised).

A lot of the applied process support/automation/optimization work over the last 5-10 years has come out what remains of teams currently structured under OI, with most of the work, knowledge base and continued maintenance being US based.

Almost zero effort has been made to prepare this to be handed off to either contractor or OGA teams, and the "cleanup" from the Change Health breach resulted in a TON of project source material and documentation for currently deployed work being wiped, and zero time/resources allocated to reconstruct/replace the lost bodies of work.

Tl;dr: The people currently supporting the existing processes that Optum (actually) runs on are probably the ones that are going to get cut this round. Things will be OK, until an existing process needs to be updated, changed or expanded, at which point things will start breaking.

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I came across this post while reading through our board. Worth bumping it up.

And all I feel is relief. I'm honestly glad I stuck through all the attrition so I could leave with a severance. Good luck to everyone still there. The sooner this place is in your rearview mirror, the better off you'll be.

This guy doesn’t know jack fu--ing sh-t about AI. This Town Hall was the worst I’ve ever seen from this incompetent sack of sh-t.

Tell us to implement AI when we’re blocked by D-mb and D-mber Legg and Markus on any actual use case. Can’t wait to get laid off because Legg tripled the Azure bill to accomplish nothing but tell shareholders “AI”.

Thank god ask AT&T has a PDF to podcast generator though, that surely creates value.

The cloud program is failing because of fundamentally poor leadership, misaligned hiring, and a completely top-heavy structure.

AC (Head of Cloud) and several of his direct reports do not have real experience running cloud platforms at scale. That lack of expertise is showing up every day in weak execution, poor decisions, and no clear ownership.

On top of that, there are multiple Grade 18+ leaders—many brought in from Amazon—sitting at ~$300K+ compensation levels with little to no tangible outcomes to justify the cost. The gap between pay and performance is not just noticeable, it’s unacceptable.

The structure is excessively top-heavy, accountability is weak within the inner leadership circle, and teams are left absorbing the execution failures. If this layer were rationalized, it could potentially free up close to $10M, highlighting how inefficient and misaligned the current operating model has become.

950 people being laid off as of tomorrow. Otherwise known as how Private Equity bankrupted a once great company

Any chatter about which teams will be impacted?

Will there be a reduction of workers at the chemical plants in Texas? If so, when?

thats it. it happened today, josh silverman su-ks.

I heard Billing, Collections and CS was hit this morning. Anyone know of any other depts that got hit? Everyone in the US is being hit.

Hi ,got laid off last year ... I am seeing a pattern, so far interviews I reached 2nd round and no news then..these are not interviews which didn't went well, I was told it's a layoff restructuring but of course like many other I had bitter relationship with my manager..is it possible to mark my profile which may create chaos in background?

April 23rd is the confirmed date.

About 10% across the board and current job openings will close before layoff notifications are communicated.

How deliciously ironic that the same deluded Negative Nellies on this site threatening to sue the company over loss of NRE are the same trolls claiming retiree benefits have no value. No value, no damages, no case.

Get a grip people. Retirement benefits have tremendous value and if you lose them at age 54, it’s because of something you did, not some conspiracy that the company is out to get you. The DW that never gave a damn about you as an employee is the same DW who doesn’t give a damn about whether or not you wet your beak in the retiree benefits pool on your way out the door.

There are rumors that there will be major reorg announcements tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday for the businesses and some back office positions. Not sure if any layoffs are included in these announcements but stay tuned.

Bunch of people in marketing laid off in last few days but it's been selective. Both the digital side and the financial side.

TMO already partners with SpaceX. Not sure how ATT will respond but I’m certain VZ will once again fail, as they did with the iPhone years ago. Leaders will tell us it’s nothing to worry about and use word salad and elaborate slide decks to propagandize their message. Some will clap and take photos in a red chair while writing on a post it note. The rest of us will patiently wait for our impending severance.

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Curious has anyone been around long enough to remember the last time corporate gave the employees some good news? Feel like its been nothing but bad news the last 10 years. Offices closing, forced moves across the country, returns to office, replaced with people overseas, forced realignments due to corporates unwillingness to staff and retain properly.

Id say the last "good news" was us working from home during COVID, which wasnt exactly good news but maybe the only positive change I've seen in like 15 years. Ok i guess they did the math and so few people were having children they increased maternity benefits like 5 years ago.....

Cant wait for this weeks bad news meeting either way.

Can anyone explain why such high turnover in claims has been acceptable for so long? Assuming they will be moving people from jobs that are not 100% horrible to a claims department that is.

Layoffs have taken place already this morning. I got a text message from someone that they and another person in the SR office were let go.

Upon examining our retail outlets, I am compelled to express my reservations regarding the investment made in these products. The design appears to be a marketing strategy, potentially conceived by a marketing professional masquerading as a retailer. It is highly probable that these items are underperforming on a substantial scale. This raises the question of why we engage in such investments while simultaneously laying off genuine talent. There is no way these stores will ever compete with Apple. Now that Apple has rumored the imminent release of its AI glasses, it is only a matter of time before this becomes another failure.

Check out the news announcement today. Guess where even more of our jobs are going. Really puts the "US" in US Bank. Lol.
Maybe we've got a rebrand of the bank name coming next

Forget about the layoffs and the impending doom guys , the toxic culture seems ok when we are minting money isn’t it ?

Is a reduction of workforce at Nike a bad thing? Revenue growth will come from productivity growth. More efficient teams. Motivated teams. AI. A reduction is not a bad if done right. And, to what I can see, 90% of the time, the right choices are being made.

The US technology group IBM has begun a new round of job cuts in Bratislava, with hundreds of roles at risk as the company continues to scale back its workforce in Slovakia.

Slovakia’s labour office has recorded a planned reduction of 439 positions in the business services sector following a notification submitted in mid-March.

Read more: https://spectator.sme.sk/business/c/ibm-to-cut-hundreds-of-jobs-in-bratislava

Stock is up 10% for the year but down a bunch after the 2025 reporting spike. If the market doesn't like Q1 I can't see how he's around by the end of the year.