#workforcereduction

The question is, who is left to rif? Any news on rif calls going out week after next which will be a non-paycheck week? Or will they continue to make up more ridiculous work requirements to get the rest of us to quit or retire earlier than planned?

EL SEGUNDO, California (October 3, 2025) — On Thursday, October 2, at approximately 9:30 pm, a fire occurred at the Chevron El Segundo Refinery. The incident took place at a processing unit located near the southeast corner of the facility. Following Chevron’s active response along with support from the cities of El Segundo and Manhattan Beach emergency services, the fire is now out. As a result, Chevron has launched an internal investigation to determine the cause.

Throughout the night, Chevron’s emergency response team has been actively managing the situation with a primary focus on ensuring the safety of employees, responders and the community. All personnel and contractors have been accounted for, and no injuries have been reported. As a precautionary measure, Chevron’s Health Safety and Environmental team has been conducting mobile air monitoring in the community.
Chevron is actively working with local, state and federal agencies, including CalOSHA, CALOSPR and the South Coast Air Quality Management District, who were notified and are monitoring the incident. Chevron is also providing information updates to the California Energy Commission (No period)

Additional updates will be provided as more information is available.

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Chevron's October 3rd press release about the El Segundo refinery incident is a masterclass in minimization - and a troubling case study in what happens when cost-cutting meets critical infrastructure.

Let's start with the obvious: this wasn't a "fire" as Chevron's sanitized language suggests. Witnesses reported a massive explosion visible for miles. By downplaying the severity in their opening sentence, Chevron immediately undermines their credibility. This is corporate crisis management 101 - control the narrative by controlling the vocabulary.

This incident didn't happen in a vacuum. It follows significant workforce reductions in precisely the departments designed to prevent such disasters: health and safety, operations, and process safety teams. When you cut the people who exist to identify hazards, maintain equipment, and ensure operational integrity, you're not "streamlining" - you're gambling with public safety. This explosion may be the bill coming due.

Someone should tell Chevron's PR team that using "actively" three times in a two-paragraph statement doesn't make their response sound more... active. It makes it sound desperate. "Actively managing," "actively working," "active response" - it's linguistic padding that screams "we need to sound like we're in control."

When companies reduce headcount in safety-critical roles, they often claim they're becoming "more efficient" or "optimizing operations." What they rarely admit is that they're accepting higher risk. Every refinery operator cut is one less person watching gauges. Every process safety engineer laid off is one less person reviewing procedures. Every HSE specialist let go is one less voice saying "wait, this isn't safe."
This press release is exactly what you'd expect from a company trying to manage public perception while potentially sitting on the consequences of their own cost-cutting decisions.

Bottom Line: Chevron wants you to believe this was a minor incident, professionally handled. The reality - a massive explosion at a facility that recently shed safety personnel - tells a different story. The community deserves better than corporate euphemisms and the word "actively" used as a credibility substitute.

A total of 163 people will be laid off on 12/12/125. I seen it on the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) website.

https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2025/10/01/conocophillips-sends-layoff-notifications-to-some-north-slope-workers-part-of-global-reduction/

Electronic Arts, headquartered in Redwood City, California, has sought to reassure employees following its massive $55 billion buyout. The company told staff through an FAQ filed with the SEC that there will be no immediate layoffs or job changes as a result of the deal, despite rumors circulating after Insider Gaming reported that employees at subsidiary BioWare feared cuts.

The FAQ emphasized that the acquisition allows EA to operate privately, outside the pressures of quarterly market expectations, and to take a longer-term approach to investment. EA said this new structure will give the company more creative and operational flexibility to pursue bold strategies and expand globally.

Still, the company acknowledged the reality of its financial obligations, including $20 billion in debt linked to funding the transaction. The buyout was backed by a consortium that includes PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. While Electronic Arts has insisted that no layoffs are planned in the short term, comparisons have been drawn to Microsoft’s handling of Activision Blizzard, where workforce reductions eventually followed after a delay.

EA maintains that it is in a strong financial position and will use the buyout to “unlock new opportunities,” but uncertainty remains among employees about what the long-term impact might be.

Any thoughts on what was shared in today’s town hall with RFAB, DM6, SMFAB, LFAB? In a meeting last week, supposedly Yunus said there were no plans for further headcount actions. But please still voluntarily go burn all your TBK in Q4 so you’re cheaper to fire. Seemed to allude that Q3 numbers aren’t terrible, but they are worried about Q4.

With the current state of things, how successful have people been in asking for WFR and getting it?

1,200 job cuts (~20% of the remaining workforce) announced yesterday at a European Forum meeting.
Head offices employees “offered”to move to production sites. Significant headcount reduction in GBCs at Prague (Czech Republic) and Budapest (Hungary), with jobs transferred to... Guess where? India, bingo.
This does not factor in possible sales/shutdown of chemical sites in the UK and Belgium.

In 2024, Analyst reports estimated that Fiserv undertook another round of layoffs impacting as many as 1,500 employees, or 3.7% of its Global workforce. Some reports suggested the percentage was closer to 5% of the global workforce.

In 2024, Fiserv filed 403 certified H-1B petitions in the United States, a number that is included in the 1,341 total for the period.

Today, September 30th, Neogen Corporation laid off 200 employees without warning. There is no reason for this!

Shell needs to lose some fat to survive. It should follow ExxonMobil owned (69.6% owned by ExxonMobil) Imperial Oil, and reduce workforce by 20%. On top of that send people to the plants, away from the relaxed life in the big cities.

Rumor has it that a 25% reduction is going to hit ISG at Lenovo. Good luck everyone.

Layoffs have started, beginning at CRD in Burlington. Sounds fairly significant.

The people being laid off are the lucky ones. Old National is a terrible place to work.

When organizations face the difficult decision of reducing headcount, it’s important to balance business needs with employee well-being. Instead of removing people randomly, one approach could be to create a “wishlist” where employees can voluntarily express interest in leaving.

This method allows:
• Employees who are ready for their next chapter to exit with dignity.
• Critical roles and talent to be retained for business continuity.
• The process to feel more transparent and humane, reducing uncertainty and anxiety.

Such an approach acknowledges that some coworkers may already be considering new opportunities, while others are deeply committed to staying. By aligning both organizational and individual needs, CDW can manage necessary changes with empathy and fairness.

Has anyone been able to successfully reverse RA because manager gave false and misleading reasons for RA (non performances based) and instead onboarding a new replacement from a vendor he has known for a while. had several good performance reviews and emails before RA. I don’t get the motivation to do this as there were no complaints against my work . How likely is this to happen

It's the only rationale that makes sense in my mind. There is no innovation any more, oh apart from some earbuds, lol. Reduce the workforce, the wellbeing of which went out the window years ago because, well that costs money. They own some realestate probably worth a bit. But no investment at all. Any educated guesses as to when?

About Union Pacific Corp.:
The Union Pacific Railroad is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans (as of 2016). The Union Pacific Railroad system is the largest in the United States and employs over 40,000 workers. The company is one of the largest transportation companies in the world and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

We are now about what 28000 employees... maybe? And they HAD 8500 locomotives, they only are running maybe 3300? How many are stored broke or have been sold off?

Things I’ve heard and seen posted on their sites. I’ve definitely heard about the remote workers being laid off if they don’t relocate, and the multiple support center layoffs. I’ve also heard about 2-3 days back to the office, not 5, but I guess we’ll see.

• Removal of FTO
• If you aren’t at Walgreens when bonuses (if we even get them) are paid out in November, you won’t get one.
• Switching to Business Casual, no jeans or sneakers.
• 10/20: Remote Employee town hall informing them to relocate or they will lose their job.
• 10/21: 10% support center workforce reduction
• January: 30% support center workforce reduction
• January: 2-3 days in office but also heard it may go to 5 days in office

The whole world is talking about H1B chaos caused by 'you know who' and here we are , pin drop silence.. is that an indication that Nike have laid off so many of the H1B that there is no need of any discussion about it.. anymore!!!

Soooo there has obviously been a huge amount of layoffs happening.

Please— if you have gotten laid off today or if anyone knows of anyone that got laid off can you reply the department name?

Also— does anyone know of how many people they are laying off and/or if they are going to be doing this the next couple of days?

Praying we are all safe.

India IT manufacturing team has been here on North Campus for the past month. Last year they got rid of the Philippines IT team and moved all their applications to India. confident the same thing is happening again for US owned apps. Also, seems they are targeting tenured but not confirmed.

~350 total between F1 and F8 (2.7% of total headcount) will likely go by end of year.

Get your backup plans in order, it’s just business.

All the other services have been on a downtrend, now it looks like the PBM side is being impacted. Doesn't seem like Evernorth is trying very hard to maintain its growth. With them already announcing that they're building "offshore campuses" a few months back seems like they'll be cutting a lot of people soon.

Great news folks, we are getting transformed!!

Some rumors I’ve been hearing is that the transformation team has been meeting since Q2 to restructure everything; meaning that they are going to announce layoffs in Q4. When? Have not heard.

It is going to be across all BUs and Roles regardless of direct or indirect billing.

So get your resumes ready. Reason being is that they are expecting to have a terrible next year.

Does anyone here know if associates with CarelonRx were also let go last week? Looks like MegS team affected.

Im tired of wasting so much time, money, and energy driving into the office for no benefit. It's such a struggle to find parking and then a desk, let alone nearby your team. And then its a noisy, chaotic environment thats difficult to focus in, but told this is somehow a more productive environment when it just isn't. This clearly isnt about collaboration or productivity or there would be better implementation and feedback routes. The current RTO model is implemented so poorly its doomed to fail, yet employees are paying for bad leadership. I'm tired of adding an extra work day to my week in commuting, only to make it harder to do my real job. RTO is a bubble waiting to burst and I wish it would happen soon so we can figure out a better way forward

• OceanFirst Bank to lay off 114 employees
• Cuts tied to exit from residential loan origination business
• Bank to partner with Embrace Home Loans for mortgage services
• Move follows recent hiring in commercial banking expansion

https://njbiz.com/oceanfirst-bank-layoffs-nj-mortgage-shift/

Do we know this for sure?

Hearing 10% across all ti by end of Q4. Salaried employees targeted, hourly will see smaller impact. 2 phase reduction plan could start Wednesday. Lots of rumors being floated, but be prepared.
OP: @11a+1k5ckbav5

Did anyone see a LD position posted with JD of "be responsible for delivery of enterprise-wide reduction needs"

Selling off and laying off in Europe and Americas.

Why did Aramco invest in this? At the end of the day its all the same Saudi bank account but not a good look.

An engineering, procurement, and construction solar company, Blue Ridge Power, will be laying off 517 employees across its Asheville and Fayetteville locations as it winds down operations. The layoffs, which will affect 348 workers in Fayetteville and 169 in Asheville, are scheduled to take place by November 18. This decision was communicated through a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with the North Carolina Department of Commerce.

https://news.ssbcrack.com/pine-gate-renewables-blue-ridge-power-to-lay-off-517-workers-as-business-closes/

LAYOFFS STARTING IN NILES IL LOCATION

The fact that we are going to 4/1 when there is only 1 desk for every 1.3 employees at Harbor Point makes me think that we will have more layoffs before bonus time. There are literally not enough desks for people to reserve 4 days a week right now.

Heard this from the HR slaves and also people close to functional leadership - there is another round coming within 18-24 months to further reduce “fat” - wow. Better luck next time jumping off this sinking ship of utter gloom and doom. The leadership and managers remaining are all nepo lovers and love the brown nosing incompetent “friends”. More with less. Woohoo!

How was wave 2 outcome for you? Were you selected or left standing?

Bankrate has laid off more than 150 employees on September 17th, 2025 across all business units and functions

Ive read 9/24 is a round of layoffs but I have also heard February Q1 after makor restructuring is done from Fishbowl. When will it be TTS turn?

Has anyone heard anything else from uk and emea lay offs? I've seen Ireland starting to be hit and UAE have taken a hit this week/last week but still nothing for anywhere else.