Curious that they are striving to be "open and honest" at this point. Wonder how they expect anyone to believe anything they say when there's literally an article from earlier this year implying there would be no coming layoffs:
https://www.thebaron.info/news/article/2021/02/23/thomson-reuters-reshapes-for-post-pandemic-world
"It aims to cut annual operating expenses by $600 million through eliminating duplicate functions and consolidating technology, as well as through attrition and shrinking its real estate footprint. The cost cuts do not involve layoff programmes and divestitures, the company said."
So the layoffs are to attributed to a different cause, possibly "to support the customer" as stated in the meeting, but I guess that allows for misleading statements like this to be made. Just a PSA to not put a lot of value into what's being said if you're a part of the US staff.