Can anyone who's been let go recently ACTUALLY CONFIRM the severance package given and your job designation? A3 A4 D2 D4 ETC?
I'm not asking what you think, what you've heard or what the documents in SharePoint say, is there someone with a real world experience that can definitively say what their experience was and if its a lump sum or ongoing payments until it runs out
Layed off in Oct 2025. Got 12 weeks based on years of service. Was paid out as salary continuance not as lump sum. US employee. Getting any useful information from alumni@xerox.com was impossible and extremely frustrating to deal with the lowest quality support team imaginable.
Severance is being phased out this year
IRIFD in January 2026. Severance was 8, 12 or 16 weeks depending on your job classification. In 2026, in US, they went back to salary continuation instead of lump sum.
@ef years ago it was capped at 12 months, back when they gave 2 weeks of pay per year of service. That probably changed around 2000 I think? As recently as 2017 it was 1 week per year of service capped at 12 months. I think the 12 week cap came about 2018 or so.
@be the severance is paid in one lump sum, not as extended payroll. That’s how they end the benefits immediately and get the accounting straight.
@bd typo. Capped at 12 weeks.
Current RIF US D4:
Form M3_Reduction In Force (RIF) Input filled out by HR and provided to employee by manager states IRIF and number of weeks of severance payment.
1 week per year of service, capped at 12 weeks, paid using your regular payroll cycle at regular base salary until exhausted (Form E1_EE IRIF Informational Package).
@bc 12 months? Everything I've seen is 1 week per year of service, capped at 12 weeks.
Right now, as of 2/28 end date, D5 US is a month for a year, capped at 12 months, paid as a lump sum, benefits ended immediately. Unvested stock award reversed.
The reality is the severance can and may/will change based up on the financial situation of the company each quarter as they lay people off. There is no set in stone; while there is guidelines and goals (sharepoint documents).. as the company continues to lose money and see chapter 11 get closer and closer adjustments will be made.
Don't count on severance for anything.. save up 20% of your income now as your own personal serviceman (wait good old fashion rainy day fund) because while ts drizzling now it will start raining in the next few quarters with a heavy rain and storms coming in 2027.
i phardded and shidded my pants