In Legal Affairs this week, 11 people most of whom are in their 50’s and women with pensions. They are outsourcing their jobs to India and hiring a few of them to teach their jobs to and manage their Indian replacements. Of course if you are one of the ones they hire back, you will get a demotion to a lower job grade level.
Is this happening in other areas?
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I've heard that entire internal cyber security team from GSCs (10+ FTEs) was replaced with 50+ indians from deloitte. everything will be outsourced now?
@y9 If there is no innovation, why have a Chief IP Counsel and many “Assistant” Chief IP Attorneys who are all VPs and patent lawyers.
Innovation is dead at 3M. The patent liaison group was dismantled a couple of years ago. Now the patent assistants. A sizable fraction of the 3M center attorneys couldn’t draft a patent application if they had to. That’s ok because invention submissions have slowed to a trickle of what they once were.
@OP The Legal Affairs layoffs are very disturbing for so many reasons. First, our GC and his leadership team make a fortune yet Legal Affairs appears to be a team in need of leadership (PFAS, ear plugs, no ethics enforcement, etc.). I am sure the patent assistants make a fraction of what an SVP or the GC makes. Second, if we are an innovation company, why lay off experienced employees who can assist with protecting our innovation just to save a small sum of money? Finally, it is terribly insulting to ask an employee to train someone in India to do their job leaving them financially vulnerable once the training is over. I have seen leadership do this before in my last role and it never works well.
ESC plants are laying off once automation projects are being completed. They are tracking the headcount savings very closely.
Lots more layoffs coming too in functions like IBO and Finance. Hearing it’s just going to be continuous across the entire company.
Like 10 people in IT security
ECOE yesterday
@e3 Patent assistants.
Does anyone know which roles in Legal were affected by the layoffs?
A few happening in IT this week too.
Polish your resumes and start looking around, folks. Other companies are actually interested in getting work done and not just shaving more and more off COGS.
Word is they just laid off the Poland based SOC team as well in IT. More to come most likely
If BB has a weakness, it's he thinks he always has the upper hand with layoffs. He is Mcnerney LITE. Even mighty Mac got sued and post-Mcnerney 3M had to pay up millions for age discrimination.
BB will find out his heavy-handed approach will hurt the company in court. But he will have moved on his millions soon enough