Thread regarding Hershey's layoffs

It's currently around 16K with a lot of that being manufacturing, so the number won't drastically change. I can only speak from the IS//IT side and I will say that it will definitely be lower in this part of the company. Feedback and the generally c-appy response in anything IT since the outsourcing to India started does NOT get up to upper management or the CXX level from the people on the ground. It's blocked around the Senior Manager or Director level to cover people's asses.

It also doesn't help with the CIO having helped outsource a little over 300 IT jobs (he was contracted to outsource IS/IT before he got hired into Hershey). The CIO also has a very bad reputation of not liking women, and after getting rid of the number of women that would have been within 2-3 reports of him directly after being put in to the CIO position definitely did not help.

I'd say ~5% reduction, mostly from people leaving due to terrible hires into Director positions over the past year or two. We're wrapping up the COVID thing and I personally know of a number of people that are starting to look, the virus only set back the inevitable by a few months. Within the past 6 months we've also not been replacing key people that have left, so most of the attrition will be due to people leaving, though there has been at least one very suspect firing lately in IS/IT that came down from the CIO covered up by a fake HR report.

It's really sad, what was once a great IT/IS organization where people were really interested in working together and doing what is best for the company has been decimated in the past 5-7 years. Outsourcing, "early retirement packages" (ageism), extremely bad hiring into IS/IT Director positions (from internal and external sources), and a complete lack of backbone in the Senior Manager through Senior Director level have let down the company and the people that work for it.