Previous posts are saying mid to end of June? Is this accurate or just wild rumors, also what departments would be impacted?
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Lets All put our heads down concentrate hard on ourselves and make more Money for Hans new Mansion.
@ws+1jw9c09wk hitting the nail on the head with your post. 100%.
While the next layoff wave creeps toward June, HR is out here posting filtered selfies and Taylor Swift references like we’re running a fan club, not a Fortune 100 company in decline.
“13 is our lucky number” — no, 13 is the number of reorgs since Q1, managers reshuffled, and employees told to reapply for their own jobs.
They post tenure stats while gutting teams.
They hashtag “culture of care” while ghosting long-timers.
They celebrate LinkedIn likes while quietly slashing headcount behind the scenes.
This isn’t leadership. It’s optics.
It’s PR drag dressed as people strategy.
It’s a masquerade of care, timed perfectly to distract from what’s coming next.
For those still inside — head on a swivel.
For those already out — you didn’t miss culture, you escaped the illusion.
#VTeamLife? Nah.
More like: Visibility Team Only.
@q4 Most of tech positions here are staffed by indians anyway. So it doesn't make sense to pay US salaries when they can hire direct in India and save.
Verizon, much like Microsoft, Apple, google, etc, is majority foreigner staffed.
Ireland was part of the dimwit failed VGS concept to offshore mass amounts of work for cheap. Ireland pay isn’t that big of a savings but the tax benefits are substantial. VGS had larger plans to offshore much more work. But they seem to have been distracted by continuous reorgs instead. One Verizon Data will no doubt be the next major money loser as plans call for headcount cuts that won’t actually happen. There will just be another vsp once the board realizes the leadership team is more focused on reorgs than delivering results.
@pr it is possible that Ireland has a better talent pool. Not saying I agree with the Ireland move but if you place value on higher education it may have been a strategic decision.
https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/education/ireland-educational-attainment
VZ doesn't want to go through the complicated legal process in foreign countries to RIFF employees there, so they stick with US reductions. But in the end, it is cheaper to offshore - so its a matter of choice by leadership, not just economics.
It's striking how the layoffs never happen offshore, always seems to be in the US while work is moved out and hiring overseas continues. Does Ireland ring a bell? Don't tell me it was a better talent pool.
Every year 4 Rifs a year in management if you love uncertainty then theres a job for you on the v team
Let us all bow to the Oracle of Synergy, where every ‘transformation’ sla-ghters a hundred livelihoods to fatten a single PowerPoint. Behold the chorus of consultants chanting KPIs while middle managers sharpen their knives behind smiling org charts. And lo—the High Priests of Strategy, who sell the company to itself every fiscal equinox, then blame the janitor for declining margins. Truly, this is not a layoff—it is a sacred rite.
VZ has been doing layoff every month. Just last year was the only one that hit the news after the Frontier sales that was another big layoff and force some IT employees to move to Frontier, same as the Infosys that force IT employees to move to them or been layoff. The irony is that VZ is buying Frontier back. So just wait after the merge for another big layoff.
The bottom line is. Who cares. If your number is up it’s up. We go thru this every year. Keep your resume updated and stop being nervous if the hammer is gonna fall on ya. 9 times out of ten it ain’t.
@OP
Let’s be real for a second.
Every time we hit quarter-end or approach earnings season, the “mid-to-end of X month” layoff rumors start flying. It’s like clockwork. The real question is whether this is another round of quiet consolidation under the Business and Technology Transformation umbrellas — or if they’re just trimming middle management again to prop up KPIs for Q3 investor decks.
If you’re hearing something credible from inside VBG, VCG, or Finance Ops — speak up. Otherwise, this feels like another stress-cycle rumor mill.
June 31
Accurate
From a former employee…you know there is always going to be a “next one.” One is always lurking in the shadows. And one day things are great and then they’re not. Hope you’re safe, but there’s always going to be the “next one.”
The rumor is correct
from a very reliable source: my ex-wife's mother-in-law's cousin's boyfriend's neighbor
It’s been a while. Just waiting for the next one. I would assume with our numbers it is inevitable.