hearing that there are probably significant layoffs happening within Target creative. what are people hearing?
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There is nothing creative about shipping workload to India so they can scale back US crews. By mid 2026 there will be no need for on site HR.
@2cs Or even worse; placed on PIPs so that they don't have to give them any type of severance, and make it seem like it was their performance that was the issue (despite years of glowing or above average reviews annually). Happened to two designers I know of. To the creep saying that some are barely working; maybe he is not in the design/tech or creative PDD but some other role that he has so much free time on his hands. Not Design. Without Design; there is no Target. And Design has been stretched thin for years leading to burn out. And once they are done with us, we are disposable. So much for this culture of "love" and "Belonging". All marketing to keep morale up.
@2cv what team are you on? Many of us in Product Design have double or triple workloads since layoffs over this past year. When we wfh we are working late into the evening. Even worse on in office days to get the work done. We are drowning
Come on, target wfh are working 15-30% of the time. Trust me I am one of them. Gravy train. When they lay me off I find a new job in another departmrnt
@dn I was a Technical Designer and was laid off in 2025. Many TD’s and Designers have been getting laid off in small batches very quietly.
@dd I personally knew of a company that called their restructuring “re-imagining”; as in let’s reimagine us with half the people but doing twice the work at less pay.
Anyone know of designers (either product or tech) getting the boot? Home/Hardlines or Apparel?
I think they call that "restructuring".
heard of 20+ people on Friday laid off. All different roles and depts—3D, project managers, writers, social.
A few support roles from the Winter Street Studio got let go on Friday.