Layoffs announced today. Sad day for our coworkers. When is this leadership going to take accountability??? 3rd round of layoffs, another miss for numbers, Seems to me the problem is how this company is being ran and that starts at the TOP!!!!
I feel sorry for the hard workers waking up to this news that they are being let go as we go into the holiday season. I am hoping my team isn't affected like the last round. Good luck everyone
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Sirius Account Executives are cry babies??? Let’s discuss this, Sirius had a totally different culture and compensation plan. Imagine you have been working with a customer for 20+ years and brought over a significant amount of business. Then you are told that you are no longer the account owner and you have to give up 75% of the revenue and gross profit! Then add that the company has set your goal based on that business! Taken away accounts that you have had long term relationships without telling you and not getting paid for closed business that they worked 100% on. And finally you are losing more than 10% of your annual income on business your owned! You also need to remember that Sirius Account Executives are solution sellers, would you be incented to work on a multimillion dollar solution and get 25% of the hardware and 75% of the services?????
I don’t know about you but I’d be pretty upset! I guess if you are on the receiving end of new business I’d want to disparage Sirius.
It's actually the 4th lay off: April 2023, October 2023, January 2024 and October 2024. There was no company-wide announcement for the October 2023 layoffs. CDW decided to move AP and AR processes to an outside company based in India. Many long term coworkers were let ago. It wasn't an immediate layoff though because they had to train their replacements in India before they were paid their severance. What a slap in the face for coworkers who spent 10, 15 and 20 years with the company!
On the FMLA topic, it is illegal to be laid off because of FMLA. It is not illegal to be laid off after FMLA for other reasons. The burden of proving this was not discrimination or repercussion lies on the organization. Lawyer up and see what happens. You have nothing to lose other than a bit of time. I’m sure the org would prefer to settle out of court and perhaps that gets you a bit more cash to make this terrible scenario a bit better.
LOL, last comment made my day
We should all be grateful that Keith Sanders and his merry coalition of pronoun warriors survived this round of layoffs unscathed
Are you referring to mat leave, if do i know of other moms who got laid off. One even had a complicated pregnancy and still got laid off. Metlife did not take action but since you just got back maybe try calling metlife
Why do you think they discriminated you for being on medical leave?
It's not like you were the only one let go yesterday
Hi guys I just got back from a FMLA leave and my first day back was yesterday and they cut me. Should I hire a lawyer? Would this make legal sense that they discriminated against me since I took a few months off?
Lost mine in Jan '24 as middle of the pack Account Rep. 100% Severance of 8 weeks. 1-2 Months later landed a new gig w/ 60k base and ~143K OTE. Right at about 114k so far this year. Keep your head up if you get canned, you're worth more elsewhere most likely.
TLDR: 35K salary aint nothing to cry about losing!! Best of luck yall
@1pbj+1uNxuZ8l I was not a low performer though my manager began bullying me non-stop in roughly July. That manager sat in meetings and passed bad information to the entire team. Never had an agenda for meetings, just verbal, then once product was delivered changed direction.
Leadership has been planning this for months, that is why some positions were never filled once vacated or a position was merged with another and filled by a long-term employee or someone from Sirius.
The other clue this is not about bad performers is the change in PTO...'no more accruing PTO past September....and burn down by March 1 2025." Halting PTO accrual enables the CDW to avoid payouts for the next round to hit.
There is documentation out-out-date everywhere. The mash-up across the UK, US and Canada is complete mess of people who don't and won't follow simple processes.
There are good people at CDW, however, there is also quality problems. When the corporate laptop configuration allows one to save their password in the browser...that is a problem. When the MS Taskbar is configured to provide the News and the team and leaders of that team can't be bothered to disable via a AD GPO, that is a problem.
Everyone laid off was a SEVERE under performer or pushed back asks for proposals for their area of business.
Just the 20 people I know.
Still sad, because nice and great people, but not super surprising unfortunately.
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Why would it even be near acceptable?
The person below mentioning the Sirius integrations…. The reason it’s still not done is because the tax write off for integration spending ran out of time. Once the tax benefit for spending money on integration went away, so did the budget.
Things went from “let’s get things done” to “welllllll hang on a minute, do we need to do that right NOW??”
Severance is always negotiable if you have a decent attorney. Most companies I have experience working with will be open to negotiating after the first contact from your attorney. Don’t sign the severance agreement until you speak with an attorney, consultations are usually free.
We are scapegoats for the ECs continued failures. When the dust settles tomorrow, look and you will see, they all have their jobs and bonuses despite being the reason we are in this situation. Make them pay.
I was among one of the employees let go in this mass lay off. I loved my job at cdw, and a top earner on my team but it feels like they just picked my name out a hat. Super sad for them that they lost me.
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Is the UK business that bad, it use to be a great place but the change in leadership appears to have taken it down a very different path that really lost its way few years into it being acquired.
Are they being hit by the layoffs?
“8 weeks at 70% is actually pretty fair right?
For only 2 years with the company”
FYI - that’s 30% less than they gave in January….
Also, note that if they pay it in lump sum, as was done in January, about half of it gets withheld for taxes.
Has anyone gotten a severance package? And are they negotiable?
Sorry for a dark joke, but is this serious? Lol, yeah, it's negotiable - why don't you show them your leverage as a released employee...
The UK business is failing terribly compared to previous decade of unprecedented growth. Usual story of “we’re making loads of money and growing, what shall we change to make more” all they actually done was drive it further into the ground. Appointed a VP of Sales who had only ever ran public sector sales teams, since she was appointed that have failed to hit target, forecast and outlook most months, but for some reason the US don’t hold her accountable. They spent millions trying to move away from their aging internal sales and CRM systems which still haven’t gone live. The senior leaders promote their friends (or relatives) by forcing others out of roles or out of the business. They ban any travel, but happily hold drinks and dinners for senior leadership at overpriced restaurants, their senior leaders are also given Ned memberships whilst everyone else is forced to stay in hotels under £100 a night. The only way to avoid future redundancies is to blow smoke up the leadership teams ar-e and tell them how great they are!
"The Sirius acquisition was about the best thing CDW could have done."
Hahahaha........can I have a bag of the stuff you are smoking.
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You'll get downvoted to he-l and back, but you're absolutely right. The number of piddly tiny engagements we staff is outrageous. "Steps over dollars to pick up nickels" is the best description I've heard.
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Many Sirius folks are required to use Sirius systems still. Sirius and CDW bill hours in separate systems as an example. It totally boggles my mind that 3 years later, that hasn't been resolved.
Several managers have been let go or demoted, so I wouldn't group the managers in with the untouchables.
The Sirius acquisition itself wasn't the biggest issue, it's that CDW has never forced any type of integration or acknowledgement that there was an acquisition. Sirius operates as a separate entity with their own personal email tags that aren't CDW standard, they're hostile, unprofessional and just nasty to CDW - hardly "co-workers" in any sense of the old culture. Exec management completely failed at managing, communicating or helping them to become employees and now they act like raging spoiled toddlers who need a nap. Please either integrate them or sell them off but this behavior isn't productive and we're losing money and customers over it.
The Sirius acquisition was about the best thing CDW could have done. Where the failed was absorbing Sirius’s service model. Sirius was a true integrator and knew how to service their customers. CDW slowly is bringing the Sirius model to their garbage model. CDW steps over dollars to pick up nickels. They care more about transactions than really helping the customers.
8 weeks at 70% is actually pretty fair right?
For only 2 years with the company
Why is the Sirius acquisition considered a failure? Is that group just losing money?
8 weeks at about 70% of my income after 2 years was my severance in case anyone was curious
I have my meeting in about an hour. Has anyone gotten a severance package? And are they negotiable?
Miss Tom Richards
Blackrock, Vanguard and statestreet are all going down
If you were invited to a meeting and told to be in a private location, you are getting let go. Get prepared..
VARs are a failing model. CDW is so convinced it's still some industry behemoth and outdated departments are too arrogant to pivot and capture marketplace revenue like its competition has. Citibank moved CDW from buy to moderate yesterday.
The drive to become an SI made sense but stale and entrenched leadership (like PPM) made sure to stall and block until those that wanted change left.
Exec leadership should be looking at those business units as having cost the company billions in lost M&A costs and if they really wanted to stall the sinking stock they would work to remove those blockers immediately.
We'll keep taking broadcom and cisco PPM dollars all the way down
Poor Decision made by "leadership" as usual. Stupid acquisitions that "leadership" wont acknowledge were huge mistakes. This company is a sinking ship but at least "leadership" will still collect their massive bonuses while the people who have not been layed off (yet) and do the work get cuts in already terrible benefits.
Just got out of a meeting with our supervisor. While any layoffs are awful, the actual number of people this time is a little over 300 and has nothing to do with the "failure" of the Sirius acquisition.
Do we know what type of workers have been fired? I work in sales and we’re all freaking out but never got an email after the first email from Chris
There will be ZERO managers / directors / VP’s let go because they are literally untouchable.
I understand you are angry but I know of multiple people at Manager and Senior Manager who are now gone. Careful spreading things you aren't informed about.
Sorry to hear that.
Yup that “discussion” email was about the layoff. So they gave me the reason the company’s declining business.
I got an email with subject line “discussion”
And also asked me to stay remote.
Is this an indication that I am about to lay off at CDW?
Unfortunately, probably.
I got an email with subject line “discussion”
And also asked me to stay remote.
Is this an indication that I am about to lay off at CDW?