We have done a number of silent layoffs in the last few years and there is very little to no info in the news on the subject.
Wonder how the most ethical company gets away with that?
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When "251 were laidoff from WD in California" in January 2023 (after being informed in Noveber 2022) WD shared a list of over 1100 titles and ages of the people they dismissed (as legally required).
I suspect "211 laid off from WD in July 2023" does not include hundreads laidoff outside California, similar to previous layoff announcements.
Meeting legal obligations can be than being honest or ethical.
I was looking for job right before pandemic, then pandemic came, no time to look for other position since need to stay home to take kid, but I was not unhappy until end of last year, they let go my manager, and they reorged my team members and informed us just by an email, this is so humiliates.
211 in milpitas layoff.
This corresponds to what % of employees roughly?
just curious
: @1lru+1n70zFAy sorry you lost your position and hope all works out for you
: @1lru+1n70zFAy if you were unhappy, why stay so long after integration?
I worked in WD more than 10 until got RIF this may. My team used to work on the top products when WD was a t peak, then the WD and HGST merge, my departure was taken charged by HGST leader, and my colleagues got RIF or no future and left. The funniest thing is that they can not compete with legacy WD product team which is a very small team consisting of some legacy wd people. TBH I don't think WD would be over, but shrink largely for sure, especially US site, HDD barely had a product.
211 in Milpitas, this is in % ?
@1utj performance review, what's that? where? Has HR posted anything about quarterly check-ins on Connect?
@1b..Too bad. This however seems to be a recurring theme here at WD. Experienced hires are routinely being screwed, both in performance reviews and during RIF. I wonder why they hire experienced engineers to begin with. This wastes a lot of company money, and spoil careers of these engineers.
@1bff+1n70zFAy sucks, hope you land in an even better position
I only got a few months in the job before letting me go.. I was told I was the newest so it made sense ....I left a good job for this company thinking career growth...
@1zix+1n70zFAy some groups will have new hires come July
I bet they will start rehiring by October
@bdt+1n70zFAy
It was copycat layoffs because other big corporates did too. 200 people in Milpitas is only about 40 millions dollars savings a year, and that doesn't count the severance. With severance, probably 30 millions max, assuming they are not doing hiring anytime soon.
no WARN report for GO site then?
211 workers impacted? Is that it??
So you are telling me that a company employing over 70k employees worldwide had no other options to cut costs other than laying off a few dozen hard-core silicon and system technologists. Some of the best and most experienced in the industry. What an utter clown show!
Even by the atrocious standards of present day semiconductor leadership in US, WD executives are in a league of their own.
@vla+1n70zFAy
Irvine was 81. Google for California WARN current reporting and download the appropriate xlsx.
so 211 is the official number from Milpitas location then, may be in coming days we see it for GO, FRE & Irvine as well?
@uxm+1n70zFAy, @zew+1n70zFAy
That's for the layoff that already happened 3 weeks ago. Companies used to notify CA WARN first that they wanted to layoff people and notify the affected employees 60 days after that. That didn't work well because people would know first, and rumors started flying around. Instead now they notify CA WARN and affected employees at the same time, and keep them employed for the 60 days plus whatever severance if any. The outcome practically the same, and tbh I think it's better that way.
@uxm+1n70zFAy Western Digital Corp. is laying off 211 workers in Milpitas. The San Jose company plans to cut employees July 28, Saravanan Chidambaram, its director of human resources, said in a May 25 letter to state and local officials. The hard-drive and flash-drive maker has already notified affected workers, he said.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2023/06/13/western-digital-to-cut-more-silicon-valley-workers.html
can anyone please post content of this article?
laying off thousands is news, not handfuls