Thread regarding Canon Inc. layoffs

If anyone's days are numbered, it's PK. If there's overhead in Canon USA, PK would be a great candidate to outsourced to the street.

@dh wow the only thing missing from that is let’s all protest outside the office

This is a symptom of a greater issue. US labor laws are terrible, and management knows this, despite not knowing much else. They want to wear you down, overwork and under pay you at every step. union up and block their nonsense in its tracks. document everything, so every termination is a retaliation case. talk with your coworkers. Did you know that Canon Canada only has a mon/wed hybrid while the states have mon/tues/wed ?
we are all in this together, whether intentionally or not, but your coworkers, yes even the d-mb ones, are not your enemy. we only lose if we let management win.

Well said! The writing isn't only on the wall it is everywhere. It was evident at the kickoff meeting when a conga line of self serving people giving speeches when on and on.
The comments about the President (like him or not) and tariffs was not necessary. Super "S" sc--wed up Canada and the Latin America on the US markets backs. The first day he sat in Melville he knew exactly what he and his cowardly crew were going to do.
The Japanese do not care about one person who busted their as--s to make Canon a quality brand. They hide, black out their pictures, and tell each other how great they are. It take zero talent to gut a company especially when a staff like "S" has as they are to busy blaming.
POA, Dex, RJ Young, UBEO, Novatech are chomping at the bit for our miff and be aware they don't need anyone from Canon.
Wake up this is reality.... no notice no severance... the promotion just announced is textbook what Ricoh and KM did before turning out the lights.

PK has always been an absentee leader, even going back to the CSA days. In all the years I've worked for Canon in its varying forms I've never even seen the guy, let alone met or spoken to him.

Regardless, the writing is on the wall here. The corporate bloodbath in the US (1.15 million layoffs in 2025 alone) will come for Canon too in 2026. The leadership shuffling that puts WTS direct sales under the control of the same team that heads the vendor relationships makes it pretty clear direct sales will be crushed in short order. We lose more and more customers to our direct competition because of pricing and then sit through meetings where they call B&H our "great partner"... Meanwhile, Canon loses 30% profit per unit when a vendor sells an item over direct sales.

At this point we're all just treading water, waiting for changes we have no input on to take effect, and watch people who have made this company millions of dollars over the years get laid off so outside vendors can make more money on our products than CUSA does itself. People saddled with their wages remaining stagnant, stuck with laughable quotas obviously designed to limit commission payouts, inflation and health insurance costs swallowing every bit and more of the pennies-on-the-dollar max base salary increases even for high performers.

Honestly, I don't know how the current leadership of this company sleeps at night aside from medications and a complete lack of empathy and human emotion.