Looks like there are plans for major layoffs at Broadcom in the works in the next several weeks to a month. And apparently nobody is safe. It's great to know we have one more thing to worry about when things are extra stressful as it is. We'll see how it pans out in the end, I guess.
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It's a bunch of BS that HR mandate and split us into shifts when government worldwide asking everybody to stay at home. Art can spin it that his dog loves him deeply and happy to see him at home, but he can't wait to go back office. Which company would mandate 25% of workforce should risk and come into office when everybody is trying to minimize contact.
stay safe
Hock was pretty clear during the quarterly investor update that we don't plan on buying companies soon.
I posted this under CA Technologies, but might as well drop it here too.
Here we all are, trying to stop the spreading of this virus, and following the recommendations of our governments to stay at home. Broadcom - clearly living in Lala-Land - is meanwhile ordering workers to go to the offices wherever it is not outright forbidden by law, government recommendations be damned.
With customary ham-fisted simplicity, Hock is blindly applying a single policy without differentiating between manufacturing sites and software development labs.
There is absolutely no reason for us to be in the office as we at CA are fully operational and productive working from home.
This rotating shift system is going to be the last straw for very many of us. We did not sign up to risk the health and lives of our families, communities or ourselves.
I predict a torrential drain of employees as soon as the job markets revitalize after the crisis. We already knew that Broadcom takes a very utilitarian view of us, but this last move is morally objectionable to a point of no return.
The pandemic did not crush our productivity or motivation. This policy did.
If and when the inevitable layoffs come, many of us will not grieve.
Getting my notice Thursday.
There is no such thing as job security. There wasn't at whatever employer you had before Broadcom and there isn't at Broadcom and there won't be at the next place you work after Broadcom lays you off.
The only thing you can do is do your best, do your job and do it well. That will help you avoid layoffs longer and it will help you get your next job too.
Stay vigilant.
Yep it’s not IF it’s WHEN and at what rate and pace.
No safe haven anywhere, even if you get a job in the next month somewhere else you are at risk of getting cut.
Time to enter survival and prepper mode... conserve cash, eat rice and beans, do what you need to do to make ends meet.