Anyone know how the decision was made? From the upper management? In which level? Or based on performance?

US teams are done except for managers. Asia will be done by US midnight. Every team is impacted by at least 1. The managers have their meetings this afternoon. Managers have been asked to be onsite for a United front. If you’re in a group meeting... — read more 

I was laid off today. $200M in layoffs is what the package says. Good luck Seagaters.... Severance package was the same as October and March layoffs. Fairly generous if you have any time in. Minimum of 4 weeks.

Anyone know?

What's your estimates at each site?

I see the list slowly growing but not a lot of chatter. We still think the bulk of layoff is today?

I'm f_u_c_k_e_d aren't I? Should I go in office?

I see lots of Layoff boxes in every corner of the hallway when I came in early this morning in Fremont. Axe starting soon.

Good luck everyone

Let’s see what happens and how many go. The story already started with the sales and Marketing announcements … Interesting to see where things go from here … I am sure to retire tomorrow :)

then From mediocre to the brink of chapter 11, in 30 years

This company is so mismanaged...WG is going to buy us out and we will all lose our jobs

Any insight or estimate how hard LCO is going to be hit? percentage?

From their very own website: "Seagate is a global leader in data storage solutions for a reason: people. Creative. Collaborative. Passionate. That's the kind of employees we hire. Sounds like you? Check out our career opportunities." It's also the... — read more 

https://www.comparably.com/competitors/seagate-technology-ceo-vs-western-digital-corporation-ceo

Seagate is valuable asset making important hard drives. Govt will save the company to avoid monopoly by WD. Nothing to worry.

If I'm laid off on Monday, I plan to take a full month off. I need to recharge my batteries before I can jump back into it all. Seagate has truly played a number on me in the last few months (and even years, when I think about it), and I need to not... — read more 

So many posts here hating on this location or that location or this group or that group- You're venting your anger on the wrong people. Everyone is just trying to make ends up meet. It's not random folks in LCO or business excellence or whatever... — read more 

Why are people now mentioning Monday as the next day for layoffs? Where is that info coming from?

Found out seagate layoff will continue till 2025, building to be released, low demand, crunching manpower to its lowest, affected department to merge, affecting seagate around the world. The situation is very bad worse than 2018 economic downturn.

I'm going to assume there'll be no layoffs tomorrow since both Monday and Friday are usually not layoffs days. What I am wondering, though, is whether that means that the layoffs will continue next week? If that's true, I'm not looking forward to... — read more 

There is hallway chatter about 50% or more getting let go. Can any managers confirm?

hearing word that lots of HR team members are getting laid off today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-65371598 More than 100 staff at Seagate Technology in Londonderry are to be made redundant, BBC News NI understands. Speculation had been mounting for weeks that there would be job losses at the... — read more 

Work is so depressing and humiliating that I stopped going in. Actually I go in few hours a week and no one seems to care. I simply cannot be at work anymore. I cant get out of bed to go to work! They still pay me. My manager does not seem to care... — read more 

3pm announcement scheduled for all staff in canteen today everyone just been informed. Several news crews in the car park. Impending doom. Good luck everyone hope anyone who wants it gets the redundancies and it’s voluntary.

...be happy for your 100% inflation.

Why the wait for the inevitable news just hurry up so we can get on with our lives , paddy norm to take control #DOES #HOWYOUDOING UP THE CITY

I work with a lot of good guys but we are getting old / should we get let go first and safe the young guys jobs ? Big shout out to Silver Fox , Rusty Weasel & Honey Badger ….

Wish my friends good luck over the next few days, things have been hard in STST over last few weeks.. Loads of Love ❤️ Red Panda 🐼

Do you really think they didn't know they would get fined? I believe they made $150mil from the sales (enough to keep the dividend going) and the fine is $300mil....but they get to pay that over 5 years, allowing them to still keep the dividend... — read more 

BOARD CEO EVP SVP VP SENIOR DIRECTOR DIRECTOR = PRINCIPAL ENGINEER SENIOR MANAGER MANAGER = STAFF ENGINEER SENIOR ENGINEER ENGINEER II ENGINEER I Please take a look how many levels it has from CEO to Senior Manager. Normally 1 engineer is working... — read more 

Everyone intends to comment without any proof or evidence behind there points. Why can’t everyone just support seagate like they have supported us throughout the years, they provide us a great workplace that I believe is well paid. Union isn’t... — read more 

We've got way too many useless managers with too few direct reports hanging around, and it's high time we trimmed the fat. Let's focus on cutting down those bloated layers of unnecessary management. That's where serious change needs to happen if we... — read more 

Can you manage the company a little better, like a normal company?

Operations to be wound down at Springtown within the next 2 years. After exhaustive talks with the CEO of Enterprise NI, a press release will be made on May 22nd. Negotiations had been ongoing with civil servants in the Dept of Infrastructure. All... — read more 

Sales and marketing org being restructured. A few VPs and Sr Directors are out, some Sr Staff and Staff will be gone next week and some in June. Some already told they’ll be out on 22nd. Sorry mates.