Our area was told to come up with a plan to show that we can save at lease 12% this year compared to last year. No more hiring for us. No more external consultants. Travel is almost non-existent after Sapphire. And we are asked to find ways to bring the costs down. There is negotiation going on regarding reducing some company benefits. And we have been asked to get more work done with the same employees. While this may be good news for many that we don't have layoffs, it is still bad news because we will have less worker protections and our benefits will get cut. And for sure employees will be overwhelmed with too much work. When this happens, you can expect the "performance" of all employees to go down and also their appraisals for next year. Welcome to recession at SAP I guess. As a company, our financials are strong but instead of investing in employees we are investing in... AI that customers do not want to pay more for and in... bonuses for group executives and the executive board. I hate this company.
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SAP needs to promote several Indians to the board. They will fix all ills and rescue the company.
@OP your Chief AI Officer for the Americas just fled. No announcement, just a LinkedIn farewell. Onward & upward with AI!!
@cx don't be surprised if the unfiltered shows an increase in trust in leadership. SOme areas had reorgs specifically to improve these results. New managers are given teams of less than seven reports so they don't get a bad review themselves. Several managers have been "praising" the great work done by our leadership and how things are bad elsewhere, etc. In India, if you and everyone else in your team don't give a good review to your manager, the entire team gets worse performance ratings and the lowest possible salary appraisal in the following year. And many many employees I know are not actively engaged anymore so they do not fill in these results. Of those that do, we also have a lot of fanboys of CK, DA and their group executives who will vote with very high scores no matter what. And then there are teams that try to be "pure" by not hiring immigrants and so they are happy to vote with very high scores as well.
I did my part of voting how I actually feel. And still I believe the leadership trust scores will go up and then internally and externally, they will flood the news on how great SAP leadership is and how successful our HR is and all such junk.
@OP I am looking forward to the soon to be published Unfiltered results. I am sure lying HR they will make some 'adjustments' to the kpis haha
@bn I agree. nonsensical...
@bn because the market is terrible at the moment so better the devil you know. Doesn't mean we can't see the terrible strategy of self enrichment by the board and long for a better approach. The fact that all the others are following similar self enrichment programs doesn't help things
Why do you stay if you hate the company?