#teamdissolution

Someone please help me understand why there are so many highly paid people with only two or three reports???? It seems like there are at least three more middle layers than needed.

What happens to teams that get so decimated over several rounds to the point where they realistically can't do anything anymore? Do the remaining folks get reassigned to other teams? Do they keep existing in limbo until more people are hired (which would completely defeat the purpose of layoffs)? Or something else?

Anticipating after these large numbers of people are off books (or before) , there will be a lot of shuffling of teams. Anyone know what happens when a Director or AD ends up without enough direct reports? Maybe there will still be enough employees left to re-allocate, but math-wise seems like there might be a lot of esp AD’s without the minimum number of people.
Wonder if the July target notifications will be like musical chairs for those without enough people left.

Lots of shuffling around of teams again and unfortunately losing some good people, then CTO is out on leave? What is going on?

Talked to a former coworker who has survived the carnage at AirMI. The breadth of layoffs on the technical team is breathtaking. Either the plan is to move airbag manufacturing overseas and ignore all of the IP-related arguments to keep production in the US, or the forecast for future airbag development and production is dismal for many years out. Either way, a team that was creative, talented, and nimble has been decimated and will never be the same.

Managers spread too thin across dev teams become unavailable for decisions needed to proceed to next steps.

So developers wait a week for a standup to escalate a decision, which gets skipped by the spread-thin manager delaying resolutions further.

and the beat goes on slowly… until the team is dissolved.

Half of the team size? This is endless.

Massive reduction in force aligned for June under the code "restructuring". Starting July, company will operate under a completely new model. Won't get it into it here, but huge paring of middle managers (team leaders) and entire functions run under separate teams eliminated. 15 - 20 percent of workforce, to include all levels, VP, directors, IC.

Anyone from Optum insight product? My position was just eliminated as well as my whole teams.

Any news on upcoming layoffs. In our market, we have some organizational changes. Where there’s a small team and a large team under one supervisor that’s supposed to have different roles. One team will be working on building a program. The other team would continue to do what they’re doing. Thinking this may be a sign that they’re going to eliminate an entire team.

I’ve been here over ten years, and I’ve witnessed a growing carelessness in selecting people for layoffs. Whatever criteria they claim to use, the reality is they disproportionately target the people who hold the institutional knowledge, understand the work inside out, and are critical to their teams. The complete loss of any long-term perspective by leadership, who have been driven purely by short-term incentives, is a fascinating and depressing spectacle.

Welp. My entire time got let go. Oh well! Better things to come

Those of us who lost half our teams and weren’t absorbed into other groups are about to live a nightmare. They might reduce our workload because they know we physically can’t do it anymore, but I highly doubt it. Get ready to go from overworked to “family, what is that?”

They removed the collection department entirely from SA and moved everyone to customer service, they just announced it now.

After being with the company for 10plus years State Farm decided to find an “issue” with a coverage we offer and then say we weren’t offering it correctly but still have to offer it. Got a whole team cut right before thanksgiving. The company is going downhill 1000%. All of our long time customers receiving NO notice or anything about this change. Just left in the dark with no clue what is going on.

At least so far. We won't be able to function without them, so I'm assuming either the rest of us will be laid off as well or reassigned to other teams. This will be a long day.

Decades of experience tossed aside. They could have been redeployed but Waters has decided that when a product is no longer wanted by the business then neither are the people involved.

Limited support will transfer to Brasov who will only be making sure UNIFI can continue to function in waters_connect, even though the backbone of waters_connect is UNIFI.

Is this good or bad. Also I know this place is toxic but how can a manager save a person from a bad cycle and move them to a whole other group to be a faulty first time suoervisor?!! This is junk people.

If Greg A resigns, then it all over.

Can someone explain what the heck the corporate strategy is here? There have been so many layoffs that most teams around me were barely functional to begin with. Then came surprise voluntary severance, so now all of the most knowledgeable people are leaving voluntarily and probably won’t be backfilled. Teams are literally non functional, no one knows wtf to do, and instead of spending money on what we need (competent people) leadership is wasting money on sh-t like in person SKO and a completely pointless, expensive, disruptive IT migration. If you told me leadership was trying to go for another bankruptcy I’d believe you.
Every day I just smile and nod and try to survive because we don’t have enough resources to actually do anything … meanwhile supposedly AI will come save the day!

It feels like every solution is just let people go. There are so many smarter ways to boost profits without wrecking the team or morale. Leadership keeps doubling down on layoffs instead of thinking creatively, which just ends up proving their overall incompetence.

Some execs call layoffs “cutting fat,” but what I see is them hacking away at entire teams that actually build the product, then acting surprised when everything starts breaking. It’s clear self-destruction for reasons that I can't even begin to fathom.

IN MEXICO ORACLE IS DOING LAYOFFS TO OCI TEAMS