It wont be a layoffs. They will use failure to comply with company policies (e.g. netflix at work, not returning to office enough) to fire people for cause (no severance)
This makes a lot of sense. if the goal are maximum cost savings, eliminating severance is the next logical step. I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be true.
The company has a solution for Quiet Quitting, which is Individual Terminations.
it's coming..
Yes this has been brought many times. We all know who you are talking about. But nothing will happen to them.
@m7 baaaaaa
@k1 The sheeple are in denial, until they are herded to the door.
@h0 All large companies are closely monitoring their employees, and the large tech companies have turned AI and other tech they develop on their own workers.
It is a cost saving, eventually leading to at least a portion of management being performed by automation.
Due to the large number of workers outside of the office, Amazon, UPS and other delivery companies have their warehouse worker and drivers already managed by automation. For example, the cameras in the vehicles and warehouses are watching what the worker is doing and provide real-time feedback.
Amazon has brought other technologies into the office, but the idea is the same.
Anyone who thinks LBT is not paying attention (to the productivity and cost savings these other companies are achieving) is in for a surprise and an abrupt walk out the front door.
This site is full of lies & other trolling. This is not one of them.
Netflix? Ha! I have seen folks on a certain team glued to their screens looking at E*Trade trying to short stocks and options completely ignoring what was happening at work. And this was on site during normal business hours!
I hope you all know you are being surveilled constantly on site. Entrances have notices that facial recognition is in play, and at least at a couple of campuses, they are increasing the number of badge readers and cameras at all indoor/outdoor access points. Even those within the security perimeter.
You might as well have a gps beacon shoved your backside.
1984 is here, the place is Intel
It is still not clear to me if LBT complaints about 'bloated' employees was a reference to Ann's org, or merely Ann.
But to be fair, many of the fab techs are far larger than Ann.
In any case, by removing both Ann and at least some of the bloat from her org, LBT seems to have left little to chance.
The company won't make everyone wear an ankle monitor.
They don't need to, when they can track everyone all the time by the RFID chip in their badge, various software and the camera on their laptop, and AI-enabled cameras all over the place.
@ev Not to be excessively pedantic, Christoff did not get shoved out.
Intel historically did not monitor performance and only selectively terminated people for slacking off. HR considered that to be something for the managers to, you know, manage.
Turns out the managers were also slacking off and one of the first to be pushed out by LBT was Christy.
Ann got pushed out and that resulted in about 2500 in her org being laid off.
Christoff got shoved out and now there is no more SMG, with Marketing being oursourced.
Head of HR affects the whole company, so maybe expect some company wide policy shifts about performance management.
lol you guys watch netflix at work? no wonder the company is in deep sh-t
@as on monitoring employees. This is 2025 and not 2022 and many other companies including Amazon, Banks, and many others monitor exact employee movement and keystrokes on their computer. Absolutely no legal issues at terminating employees who violate policy. “Work laptops must only be used for corporate work”
@ay are you saying that evidence of people who are not performing or not following policies that they agreed to follow are not grounds for termination? Sounds like we need to be bringing those jobs back to the US.
Doesnt the def Met team day trade on site during office hours?
@az You excluded, of course.
It's crazy how not one person knows what they are talking about on here
@a2 not outside the US, people have rights
@as Well gosh, since you're a manager at Intel...I mean you said so on an anonymous board, so it must be true, right...we can all breathe a sigh of relief.
Current manager here, this is fear mongering. Intel looked into this in early 2022 and late 2023 and determined that anything more than monitoring badge data would land the company in a legal landmine. Badge data is traceable even now but no one looks at it. As of today, there has been no communication asking managers to monitor badge data for “hybrid” employees, but its a matter of time before something amounting to that is asked for.
@a2 not if you have a slam dunk case and the attorney takes it pro bono. Fabricating performance issues/deficiencies is one way to get there…. Mass layoffs aside
At the direction of both the named partners, I installed spyware on all hosts at a law firm. It was a keylogger and took screen shots every 5 seconds.
When it is a work machine, you have no expectation of privacy and no legal protections from whatever they do with their equipment.
Performance management is lots of work and takes time.
They will just layoff more it is a lot easier and faster.
And then fire for policy violation which is really easy.
Logical if you're a sociopath
@a7 Here's how this most likely plays out:
In short, welcome to the police state version of Intel. You WILL be tracked & monitored, and it WILL matter for performance reviews.
Not to go all RTO but everyone should expect ramped up monitoring of badge data, as well as managers being given the mandate to keep track of what their employees are actually doing (aka doing their job).
Past experience has been that when managers fail to manage their employees and those employees are violating company policy, both the workers and their managers are walked. In a few cases that involved the removal of an entire group.
Assuming that everyone got the message not to go bowling for several hours every day, the refusal of some managers to enforce RTO is not likely to end well for everyone involved.
The company wants to see marked improvement in productivity, so PC and camera monitoring could start to be a thing. Amazon does this more than any other company and has worked out how to feed that data to management.
The other large tech companies are way ahead of Intel in performance management, and I expect LBT wants to catch up to at least some of their processes and techniques.
You manage what you measure.
This post wins the Captain Obvious award for today.
Your prize is a free banana.
@a1 the legal issues would be minimal. If the have evidence of policy violations or performance issues they have nothing to worry about. Most people won't sue. It costs money to sue.
Well NO, that would have massive legal repurcussions and hassle. It'll be quick, involuntary and unchallangable....so generous as before.