Literally sitting on a call now with our management, who described this as bombshell news that they were only informed about late last night. We lost one team member directly which is actually a significant percentage of our team which is very small, their role will fall on to two other people in other groups that we're still going to have to support. Our entire team has now been moved to another BU and our management placed under a new leadership. It sounded like our manager was given a brief outline of what changes were taking place, as they were pretty apologetic and sounded upset about the lack of information or how this will shake out operationally - which we're guessing means wait and find out what the overall impact will be. Management was able to find out that there are a number of other groups that are being split up, blended, merged, and re-aligned. Management also stated that there were a number of other people let go but did not have good detail on that and how relationships between BUs and groups would be affected. Our team's role is not changing or at least not being re-purposed with a very healthy dose of YET on that, we're being told to just hang on and ride out the inevitable period of confusion and insanity.
This is not following the Traditional Holy Allscripts Layoff Calendar, historically this would be the late October/early November Surprise unless they're planning on that happening anyway. From our perspective, it sure seems like there is a conscious move to get out of certain lines of business and at the same time group things by product alignment which could sure mean they're looking where to put the dotted lines for the saws to take apart.
Still have a job, but really not motivated to give it my all beyond personal pride anymore.