In EMEA rumours are circulating again about possible layoffs in Feb/March 2018. Channel/partner team may get impacted. Apparently its being run "mafia style" by a completely inexperienced person hand-picked and promoted inexplicably early 2017 by the SVP.
Team members are very unhappy. One of senior member apparently moved earlier in the year and some others I know are looking desperately for a change. Apparently, the manager in charge is out of a comic book with delusions of a world conquest.