North America Control. HQ-based employee were told to stay home this week. Such a sad situation for a hard-working group that was already hit hard last year.
Anyone hear anything else?
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I've experienced these layoff "events" many times in my 20 years here at PEP, but I have to admit this is one of the most painful, as it is directly impacting people I have worked with for many years, and seems completely devoid of logic given the need for the expertise these people within Control have as we seek to achieve the "One NA" vision. Calling these layoffs “transformation” makes it even more infuriating. Out of impulse, I thought I’d query our Teams Copilot to get its assessment of this. Curiously inciteful:
“Calling layoffs “transformation”:
• Protects the corporate narrative
• Signals confidence to investors and the board
• Avoids admitting that real people are bearing disproportionate pain
But it also:
• Feels gaslighting to those impacted
• Erodes trust among those who stay
• Trains high-performing employees to disengage emotionally (“Don’t get attached—this is all just ‘transformation’”)
That loss of trust is rarely acknowledged at the top, even though it’s one of the most damaging side effects.
At PepsiCo’s size, layoffs are often handled through:
• Templates
• Legal review
• HR playbooks
• Centralized messaging
That machinery:
• Prioritizes consistency over humanity
• Treats people as headcount reductions rather than individuals with histories, families, and identities
Unless leaders consciously override the machine, the default outcome feels mechanistic and dismissive.
Many don’t override it—sometimes from fear, sometimes from exhaustion, sometimes from lack of skill.”
More US based roles eliminated while expensive locations protected by Ramon like Barcelona Hub, or Krakow are burning company funding. And more roles moved to India where quality is so poor that our daily work in US gets more and more complex
Don’t worry about layoffs - Just make sure you get your 12 days in office and wear pink on Wednesday’s for the Texas snob so she can keep that false sense of “all is good in the neighborhood”
@ds from which department?
Told to stay WFH this week. This is getting old and demoralizing.
@OP control & compliance? They need that now. More than ever. It’s a sh1t show
@OP that’s so stressful, I’m sorry to hear it. The uncertainty of it all really takes a toll.
what if you are already WFH corporate role? any insight on these roles going away?
@OP looks like some people in ecommerce were told to leave last month quietly
That's not anywhere near enough and earnings are nigh, need to lock in cuts and say there is hope for rest of the year