Given the number of people leaving, it is very interesting that the company also decides to make some cuts. I guess they expect those who stay to be willing to do double or triple workloads. Obviously, leadership and management are detached from reality and do not want to accept the fact that there are fewer and fewer people who want to work here, that is, it will not be easy to find replacements...
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Yep, you are correct. Definitely didn't want to include first level managers who usually take on the brunt of the impact when an employee below them leaves or is laid off. It mostly applies to Senior Managers, Directors, VPs and on up who do nothing but read emails all day, attend BS meetings, require their teams to work nights and weekends while they spend their time at the lake, and come up with useless powerpoint slides to show higher ups how busy they are.
Please don't put line managers in the same bucket as the rest. Many of us have taken on more work (from individual contributors) to keep our teams from being overloaded. This has caused extreme stress and burnout at the manager level.
Letting go of worker bee engineers and keeping useless managers is typical at most every company i've been at, Commscope is no different
Supply chain cuts? You mean the very people who are ki----g themselves to get materials to supply products that are back-ordered?
Also, it seems like some laid off are very productive people with deep technical knowledge. Why weren't they moved to other projects and SVP/VP/Director & Sr. Director level jobs axed?
It seems to be mostly supply chain cuts - they needed it. And I heard a large group of engineers whose product had reached its end of life.