Based upon company performance, I’m thinking yes. But just curious if anyone is hearing anything. Apparently some have already happened last week.
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I can't believe people are still buying these products. None of them are best of breed and innovation has been lacking for years.
Have the layoffs stopped for now? Will they be closing any offices? Are the old Micros Focus Provo and Houston offices still open?
That whole support approach was doomed from the start. From what I hear, ITOM is a difficult product and the skills have left or are leaving. The person leading the transformation didn’t have experience and I think he left us earlier in the year before seeing it through. Pressure will filter down to us in sales to make everything right again. I hope we can and I hope our friends in EMEA get some successes too.
I noticed a lot of management have not come up the ranks and understand the day to day tasks.
Lots of stupid management requests that waste time and leaving less time for day to day tasks. I will not work extra time in meeting all the requests and also complete my day to day tasks anymore. It's not like I get paid for extra time anymore either.
You can hire 20 people, but they are not going to replace a single person with 20 years of knowledge that knows every line of code. The mo--ns at OT will find this out the hard way. The customer service that left the america's is doing a horrible job. One person used to be able to replicate an issue and pass it over to engineering for resolution in a few days or less. Now there are customer issues that are taking 3-6 months to resolve, that were not complicated at all, but there was no longer experts to get a quick turn around. Such a train wreck!
What's the latest package this round? Worse than the last round? How many weeks per year of service?
They're not competitive anywhere. And now the stock grants are worthless.
The difference might be 100%. OT salaries are not competitive in Canada.
Is the cost difference between US and Canada that big that it makes sense to move a whole team? Rehire? Retrain? Can’t be any more than 20%.
To confirm the information mentioned below regarding the ITOM team in the US, I understand that a support manager for ITOM has already been selected , he will be working from Waterloo, Ontario.
ITOM in the US will soon be a thing of the past
I've noticed new job postings for ITOM— the first for a Team Lead position and the second for Senior Technical Support. Based on this, I assume the ITOM team in the US may be laid off, with new staff being hired in Canada.
I remember that OpenText laid off the support staff in the US and hired new staff in Canada for the eDocs team.
I'm seeing some really talented long-timers OT heritage looking for new roles. Mid-level female people manager beloved by team and great performance. They've already cut the MF people. Who is left?
For all of the "people come first" and diversity garbage, it seems to be lip-service? And a paragraph for the Annual Report and the ESG score.
Yes. I am hearing rumours that there is a layoff coming in 4-6 weeks primarily impacting US teams. Like others have said, it is a cash grab made to look like a move for more efficiency.
Micro focus was garbage and on its way to bankruptcy. Open text paid too much money for it and now they are stuck trying to find ways to trick the market. The micro focus apps were built on old technology and not competitive in the market. Open text thought they could just bring them to the cloud and make huge money. Turns out that was wrong.
Instead of firing the people who made the decision, they will fire normal hardworking employees to cover their mistake.
Some teams are safe but most American jobs will be moved to Canada or likely India. This move to India means open text wants cheap labor and not innovation. The India teams have not innovated at all. They can barely keep the apps running.
Until open text get’s a real board that will ask the real difficult questions. Thing will never change.
Mark specifically called out ADM and ITOM
I work for Carbonite and we lost some, I hear other areas of SMB did too. All seemed to be people managers S4
Have heard ADM and portfolio groups being targeted
What areas?
Seems like people managers hit this time
Looks like our direct lead have been sacked. We will have an update tomorrow.
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What do I search for on LinkedIn?
I think it's already happening, have a look on LinkedIn