@n5 all will be complete before end of year
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@M1 Any timeline?
@dd , not enough for the “brass”.
It’s not 10k, it’s a straight 10% which is somewhere around 15k. All orgs, teams, and levels are impacted. This is straight from my HR source and has also been shared within my organization.
We will never see 10k or anything close to that in "one shot". What we'll see is high hundreds or perhaps thousands during different layoff cycles impacting management and non management titles.
How many waiwes have been completed so far?
Should be at least 50% of all the employees
@cq current total employees at 133k
Just cut headcount to 70K, that would be a good start. With AI you can expect further cuts to about 30K, that's being generous.
It won’t happen all at once. Expect a steady drip rather than a headline-grabbing wave. Small, incremental cuts designed to avoid drawing attention is what you are looking at. The goal is to stay under the radar, not trigger scrutiny or public backlash.
Most exits will be framed as “for cause” wherever possible. At the same time, there’s a gradual wearing down of employees. People are already feeling the pressure, and that fatigue is part of the strategy.
Warnings, both subtle and explicit, will become more common. Expectations will tighten, communication will grow sharper, and the environment will feel increasingly uncertain. All of this nudges people toward leaving on their own, reducing the need for formal layoffs.
In the end, it’s a mix of quiet terminations and voluntary departures, unfolding slowly enough to keep it out of the spotlight but consistently enough to reshape the workforce.
They'll keep doing small chunks. The problem is they dont really know what they ultimately want. They know their top end number of employees they'd like but not the lowest. They'll keep cutting until it's broken and then hire one person back.
Monthly and quarterly waves are the only approach that this current leadership knows. It is truly a sadistic approach, speaks volumes on how awful they really are. It is just another blaring example of the incompetence of Stank and his minions.
T Cullture
Where is this 10K number coming from?
We dropped over 7000 people last year without major headlines. Could basically drop a additional 300 per month and hit 10,000.
"Wave"
Anyone who doesn't know the difference between "wave" and "waive" should be first.
Split up to reduce headlines. Compared to other companies like Oracle, a 10,000 employee cut is small change.
This is just waive 1
Phase 1 of 2026