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They Are Quietly Laying Off

In Legal Affairs this week, 11 people most of whom are in their 50’s and women with pensions. They are outsourcing their jobs to India and hiring a few of them to teach their jobs to and manage their Indian replacements. Of course if you are one of the ones they hire back, you will get a demotion to a lower job grade level.
Is this happening in other areas?


How many people post?

I have a feeling that a few individuals are responsible for most of the content we see on this site. Can anyone guess how many people post regularly? I would estimate it to be around 6 to 10.


Any guess how the 20K layoffs be spread in 2026?

20,000 is really massive number to RIF

If 1K were riffed in January
and we don’t know how many were laid off in February (say 2000?).

Still have around 17K to be riffed beginning March 4. How is this number gonna be spread? 2K a month until December? Anxiety-inducing and demoralizing for employees!

Any guess/speculation?


Bonuses and Performance Ratings

Does anyone know how bonus amounts are decided? Is it true managers are told how many people must receive a certain rating. For example; on a team with 10 people there can be no more than 2 people rated at “Exceeds” and there must be at least 2 people to receive “Inconsistently Meets”.


Fair warning about goals

I met with my leader this week about my goals this year. I presented to them what I felt was a skill I needed to grow in that directly affects my work and meeting business goals. It was also something mentioned in my review as something to focus on this year. My leader didn’t agree that the goal made sense and that it was ambitious enough, even though I had a clear case as to why it was.
What this tells me is that they are actively positioning to set people up for failure or lower comp again next year. Never ever in my career have I had a leader tell me they disagreed with a goal of mine. Especially one that is directly tied to work. It’s not like I made a goal to take extra lunches or see how many pencils I can sharpen in a day.