To my knowledge no employees were laid off in Germany on the Ansys side due to the work council. Any news on when this is going to happen? Any news on how close they are to an agreement?
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@3yd in which departments?
more coming this week
@3c7 what is the SOOS product ?
@3c3 SOOS team
@3br May I ask which team or product?
@27x Will we get more if we start a lawsuit?
Will we get more if we start a lawsuit?
@3bm People in my team have been notified
@3be Any news on this? I haven’t heard anything.
lays off are starting in Germany
@2yc Agreed....It's way too long since the first announcements....
works council signed the agreement, yes.
it was shared there is not yet a list of people to be fired, or at least not a complete one.
dragging on until the end of 2026 is unbearable.
a complete morale ki-ler.
Did the work council in Ansys Germany sign the agreement?
@27x wow I firing until end of the year is brutal. Every day is now stressful. Not sure why that is the case.
Some Sozialplan details on Ansys Germany RIFs:
Firings continue through all of 2026 (calendar yr).
Severance package only for all those "voluntarily" accepting getting fired, ie effectively not pursuing a lawsuit.
- 1mo total salary (base+prorated bonus) per yr of service, plus
- 5k per child, plus
- 32..52k depending on age, plus
- accelerated RSU vesting (details tbd)
No-compete agreement is terminated as part of the pkg, for what it's worth.
Normal voluntary resignations for those finding a new job on their own will not get the package.
@15x Is it true that Synopsys threatened to close all sites in Germany if work council called for a strike and did not sign the agreement that Synopsys proposed?
Ansys Germany has a works council and negotiated a "Sozialplan" wrt 10% cuts.
Their goal is to cut 40+ jobs. Next week they will share details.
@d4 Synopsys in Germany doesn't have work council.
That being said, haven't heard of layoffs so far. Layoffs happened last year, just a week after the US one, so far nothing here is far as I can tell. Don't exactly understand why the different waves exist to begin with and if the different waves impact different sites/orgs or whatever, though.
@j2 That is not a rumor.
France and Germany have a process with their work council.
The process has been communicated and is on its way.
I heard about France and Germany in April, but might be rumors.. that's the talking, sadly
Some layoffs have sadly happened beginning of the year already on the Synopsys side. The Ansys workers council seems to be stronger than the Synopsys one.
From what I understand, there have been no layoffs on the Ansys side in Germany so far, largely due to the Workers Council’s strong opposition. My impression is that discussions are still ongoing, and that reaching an agreement could take some time, which might mean Germany ends up being impacted much later than other countries.
I’m also curious, at a more general level, how this compares to the Synopsys side in Germany — the Workers Council, if it exists, there appeared to take a different stance. If anyone has context on why the approaches differed, it would be interesting to understand on the Synopsys side.