Not to get things off topic, or rather back on topic. And just so everyone knows, I was hit in Ravi the destroyer's 2019 US IT purge. I was happy with the severance and was lucky enough to find a position at a slight increase in salary in about 3 months. I don't want Seagate to fail, but I do think they're desperate for new leadership at the top. I have lots of friends still working there and I hope for their sake something changes.
Frankly it may be too late for anything beyond 10 years unless they can FINALLY get HAMR to become viable. I don't think an Ops guy like Mosely is capable of anything than incremental change. You can only cut costs so far before you're cutting off your nose to spite your face. Even Luczo was completely wrong about WD's Sandisk acquisition. Seagate has (had?) great firmware writers, but you need the raw materials and Seagate needs to buy SSD substrates like every other 3rd party player.
Seagate will still be around even if they don't find a way to get quality SSD substrates from their own fabs, merge or partner with someone, but unless you get someone with some vision at the top, all you're going to do is manage the decline as rotating disk storage fades away.
There's no good way to respond COVID-19 unless you're sitting of 4 months of operational costs in cash and can just wait it out. Very few businesses can do that. I'm sure they're following the best protocols they can, but it's a scary time.
As cavalier as Seagate top management is about laying people off, I don't think they want illness or injury to affect their employees.