#news

https://apnews.com/article/dei-nike-discrimination-diversity-eeoc-80b07bba4ce7eb73e0bcac3e1d46a122

Thoughts?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/eeoc-nike-white-employee-discrimination.html

Macy's Leads Thousands of Supply Chain Job Cuts
The freight market continues to struggle in early 2026. Over 3,100 job cuts have been announced since mid-January across various sectors. Macy's is closing its Owasso, Oklahoma, fulfillment center, affecting 993 employees. Alton Steel and Continental Tire also announced significant layoffs. Weak consumer demand and excess capacity contribute to these widespread reductions.

https://www.freightwaves.com/?p=570118

Cardone Industries is closing two facilities located in Texas. This action affects 129 employees in Harlingen and Arlington. The closures stem from parent company First Brands Group's financial and legal issues. First Brands Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September.

https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/first-brands-cardone-texas-closure-layoffs-fraud-21329238.php

Eddie Bauer faces expected bankruptcy. Recent layoffs preceded this. The layoffs happened at the company's headquarters. Bankruptcy is now anticipated. These two events are linked.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2026/02/03/eddie-bauer-prepares-chapter-11-filing.html

Fifth Third Bancorp officially acquired Comerica Incorporated. The deal was valued at $10.9 billion. Layoffs are expected following the acquisition.

https://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/fifth-third-officially-acquires-comerica-in-10-9b-deal/amp/

The freight market continues to struggle in early 2026. Over 3,100 job cuts have been announced since mid-January across various sectors. Macy's is closing its Owasso, Oklahoma, fulfillment center, affecting 993 employees. Alton Steel and Continental Tire also announced significant layoffs. Weak consumer demand and excess capacity contribute to these widespread reductions.

https://www.freightwaves.com/?p=570118

Seeing few unexpected role eliminations posts on LinkedIn , was there any update or a flash call about this recently ?

Is it just another rumor or is it coming? most likely to be shared at earnings call if it is a fact.

The Seattle area recently shed jobs. This marks the first job loss since the pandemic began. The region had previously added fewer than 15,000 jobs in 2024. Further details are behind a paywall. The Puget Sound Business Journal reported this development.

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2026/02/03/area-loses-jobs-tech-industry-construction.html

Company planning next steps

1. Reaffirming 2026 financial targets and commitment (i.e Sharebuy back and div etc)
2. Increasing cost cutting labelling it as ahead of and better than planned schedule to spike up investors confidence
3. Major restructuring and flattening structures, ALOT of middle managers will be affected. ALOT of Directors/VPs will be affected as well due to combination of functions and geographies.
4. Print and PC split on discussion.

Company in loads and loads of chaos. No CEO just disappear overnight like that and move out. The damage done by Lores is unthinkable. His playbook is to max payment to Shareholders via stock buy back and div to pump up share price to fattened himself and other C-suite, while stripping away everything possible internally. This failed miserably as shareprice during his tenure and now was lower.

A woman employee fainted after receiving layoff news. She worked at Dhamnagar Tata Power in Bhadrak. Colleagues rushed her to a hospital in critical condition. The victim is identified as Manasi Barik. A workers' association condemned the layoff and demanded re-employment.

https://kalingatv.com/odisha/woman-faints-after-receiving-layoff-news-admitted-to-hospital-in-critical-condition/

ok, has anyone else caught wind of this new initiative, how does this affect us

Austin-based RapidDeploy raised $34 million in new growth capital. Edison Partners led the investment, bringing total funding to $87 million. RapidDeploy develops mapping software for 911 and emergency agencies. The company has secured 10 statewide contracts and serves 1,500 911 centers. Separately, legal tech firm CS Disco Inc. announced layoffs impacting 62 employees.

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/inno/newsletter/30371778?skip=720

Please share you opinions on Hydra progress. Can Hydra survive in 2026?

https://about.att.com/aboutus/pressrelease/2026/att-lumen-deal-close.html

VERIZON ⁠HAS ‍NOW ​BEGUN TO TAP ‍POTENTIAL REPLACEMENTS ​FOR CURRENT HEAD ‍OF VERIZON'S ​CONSUMER DIVISION SOWMYANARAYAN SAMPATH ​IN RECENT WEEKS- ‍FT Source: https://example.com/4awd7nte

Lumen Completes Sale of Consumer Fiber-to-the-Home Business to AT&T

More info online

Miller's Ale House is closing one of its restaurants. This specific location is in Northeast Philadelphia. The chain will continue to operate in the broader region. Nine other Miller's Ale House locations remain open. One of these remaining restaurants is in South Philadelphia.

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2026/01/30/millers-ale-house-northeast-philadelphia-closing.html

Please share any information, dates for February. Thanks.

"We are The Washington Post's international correspondents, writing with a collective plea for you to preserve our newspaper's global coverage, which we fear will be greatly weakened in coming cuts," one such appeal read. "Our coverage — thanks to your investment — shapes conversation and global policy at the highest levels each day."

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/30/nx-s1-5692923/washington-post-bezos-layoffs

Not a safe area to be after dark, unless you are carrying:
Police say a man fired shots after an altercation with a security guard outside a Corktown bar early Saturday morning. The incident happened at around 1:17 a.m. in the 2100 block of Trumbull Avenue near Michigan Avenue. The security guard, a licensed CPL holder, returned fire and struck the man.

Does anybody have anything with some kind of a source outside of rumors and wild guessing?

I could barely find any news on it, and I looked, trust me.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4861789-xerox-running-out-of-ink-strong-sell

For real? I thought it was a joke when I heard about it.

This is the only reporter in San Antonio that broke news of the Oct 29, 2025 layoffs.

Zachary-Taylor Wright
Trending Digital Reporter, MySA
210-372-3040

https://wfin.com/local-news/goodyear-to-close-tall-timbers-facility/

Any news on CIP now that earnings are out?

Cisco enterprise networking SVP jumps ship to Nokia.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/cisco-enterprise-networking-svp-jumps-ship-to-nokia/

Any news on additional flexibility regarding RTO as mentioned by M.?

https://www.usbank.com/about-us-bank/news-and-stories/article-library/us-bancorp-announces-leadership-changes-in-its-operations-function.html

Chief Outsourcing Officer is retiring.

This has happened so much now it hasn't even made the local news.

https://example.com/mr3dm9rh

Supposedly she sent messages to AS that were in appreciation. Of course it was the fake appreciation you send to a leader at Citi. But it doesn't help her case.

SAP in talks to buy or partner with N8N as its internal efforts to boost the next gen SAP Build falters big time with legacy platform. Existing products to be scaled down, retired and moved into support mode with external vendors until customer migration is complete. Teams to be reassigned/ laid off based on the location. Possbile news to be out in 2-4 weeks.
It gets even more critical to compete with lean AI first startups as SAP share price nose dives 17% after the announcement of financial results.

Any guesses who it is?

https://youtu.be/dQRgURIEr48?si=MMhfGWuMAIyAufC1