It's happening. Not surprised with Amazon pulling back in the market place along with economy slowing down.
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We’ll it can’t get any worse than it is so I’d be happy if we were sold!
But whoever buys Intelligrated might have a lot of overlapping technology.
@4Npod+1it6mG1t Everyone I work with across 3 of the SPS businesses is infering the same, everyone is spooked for the coming quarters. Lots of strange activity.
St. Louis is still a profitable portion of Honeywell's Intelligrated portfolio. Our machines are the best in the world. Though Honeywell is trying their best to give away our technology to the third world. Makes sense that they'd try and sell us before the real damage starts.
Been rumored since January that big changes were coming to SPS in the second part of the year, sadly I think we are on the verge of seeing those rumors come true. Last year saw a huge withdrawal of investment across all the business groups (and of course the global layoffs and furloughs) then a new leader and CEO within a realtively short space of time. It does not bode well, where it goes I don't know but I imagine a fair number of businesses won't be here next year and SPS will be renamed/rebranded in some kind of scaling down and reoganistion which will be declared as 'a change in strategic direction'.
Belinda came in to the St. Louis Plant yesterday with a group of people said that they were customers. But found out that they have the company up for sale, but they say different. There is a different between what a customer wears and a potential buyer wears. Plus seen lots of parts disappear overnight and a lot of repairs finally getting done.
Guess they tore up this company enough now and sell what is left.
I believe Pittsburgh still has a regional office PSS divisions, right?
I've been with Intelligrated since the Honeywell acquisition. I know many people that have either been let go or left on their own. Without exception, each of those that I know are better off. I still keep in touch with many and they all wonder why I am still here. I happen to like what I do with the exception of having to do it in the Honeywell environment. Here's to hoping that I get the voluntary RIF. It would be nice to take a little bit of Honey Money going out of the door.
Now they’re asking SOME people to self-RIF.
Can anyone tell me if the Mason office was affected? I just left there a few weeks ago and did not know any of this was happening, seems like I had good timing. I also heard they're getting rid of the hybrid WFH?
Are they layoffs over? What is the outlook on orders?
@ezw
Last thing that I heard was that the only regional office still left is the left coast office. All others are gone.
Whats the current status on the regional offices? I think they had six of those last time I checked.
@drcq I've said it before, I'll say it again... you could replace "Intelligrated" with _____________ (fill in the blank) the name of around 75 to 80, maybe more, companies that Hon acquired and trashed from 2002 to 2022. Take a look at Wikipedia.
15 years with Intelligrated, winning Region of the Year multiple times.. Honeywell comes in and Furloughs multiple times, takes away bonuses and pay raises, does nothing to keep incredible talent, shuts out communication, closes offices, has zero value for legacy employees or their input.. etc etc etc. Incredibly sad to watch an amazing team get shredded into a constantly changing management team that seem forever d-mbfounded on how to run the company and clueless on to how treat employees like anything but a number. Shareholders for the win.
what positions within HON Voice (SPS) were let go?
Indicative of a clueless upper management at IGS: first item on the agenda in Thursday’s town hall, the day after we all lost our jobs, was how those remaining have to train to get a safety sticker on our hard hats that has a QR code. Even our illustrious VP will not be allowed on site without one. I’m glad the comrade sees himself as one of the proletariat. Upper management at Intelligrated have lost their collective mind.
Exactly, there are very few people left who have any experience and it shows. We are so incompetent and dysfunctional in every department now, especially in leadership positions. The heavy hitters all left and the majority of people who were promoted or brought in are incompetent.
Your post barely makes any sense...
Intelligrated has been subjected to furloughs for 2 or 3 years by this point. Furloughs have always been a Honeywell tactic to beef up the numbers during even the best of years. The loss of Amazon orders is a factor now but it's mostly a convenient excuse for what Honeywell does anyway which is acquire, crush, close, and spin off. These are all tactics inherited from GE & Jack Welch where the only thing that matters is maximizing shareholder value while the employees are not even a real consideration.
Layoffs were hardly necessary since the company was in constant turnover ever since the acquisition. Anyone with a pair of eyeballs and 5 minutes of spare time can witness that fact on Linkedin with a basic search. These people went on to beef up the ranks of competitors such as Dematic, Vanderlande, MHS, & TREW which are now eating Honeywell's lunch. Honeywell wanted to bleed Intelligrated slowly but they got a runaway collapse instead. The wheels have fallen off due to a combination of greed and pi-s-poor business strategy yet they want everyone to believe that the layoffs are solely due to a lack of Amazon orders. Truthfully the real damage happened when the talent jumped ship and joined the competition in the years following the acquisition. Now we see that the emperor has no clothes and is desperately looking for excuses...
@3yfh
John Boy, welcome back! We expected you. Given your disastrous management style, I am not surprised that you'd come in here to try and defend yourself. How are the family holidays? Feeling a little uncomfortable around daddy in law? Feeling the stare? You should feel ashamed for the amount of cash you have lied your way into. But then again, you are a sociopath.
Ever since I started in 2018, those who were Intelligrated prior to the HW acquisition all have a bad attitude. My experience at Honeywell Intelligrated has been great! Yes, layoffs/furloughs are the result of upper-upper management relying on AMZ future which has obviously flattened. Makes sense to me that we have to take these extreme measures because of 1 customer who reneged. #amboycottingAMZ
Does anyone know if there were RIF's within Intelligrated in April and May of this year???
My friend was laid off from the Baltimore office along with 40 others. I think they started with about 100 employees and now they have 60. No warning. They canned all the younger engineering talent along with half the production floor and a few others. Maryland has some labor law though requiring that they have 60 days to leave so honestly how much is HON really saving there if they have to pay those poor folks for two more months and then give them at least a month of severance? Morale is at its lowest and who can blame them.
From all hands meeting seems like directors were asked to give a list and the GM hand picked people. Pretty sh---y thing to do, to be honest, especially when he doesn’t know anyone of them. As per him more layoffs will come if we don’t meet revenue goals.
If you don’t want to be touched, meet your goals! Which is funny because those goals are controlled by sales and not engineering or project management.
From what I have gathered from a couple of meetings today, middle level managers were given a list of who to eliminate. No consideration given to the performance of the people or the office to be eliminated. Managers were not consulted. It sounds to me like there is a great exodus about to occur on all levels. Typical clueless DA / JW move.
Former Intelligrated engineer here. Can confirm that the entire Chicago office has been closed. People with 20+ years of material handling experience, dumped.
Just incredible.. You go from the most profitable to being shuttered in just a few years. The cluster$&?! That is Honeywell is just awe inspiring in its absolute ignorance in addressing what the real issues are.
Wow! Given what I have heard around SPS, it seems as if we are going down. I think we can blame JW for that. He is the one that focused on all of the losing propositions for SPS. Why is he still with Honeywell? Oh wait, he is DC's son in law.
Last time we had furloughs, we lost customers and engineers. Guess we will lose more of both, and just go further down.
Honeywell is a destroyer of established companies and their people. I'm out of here.
We lost 9 engineers today in the Mason office and that's just one department
I can confirm that SPS is affected, I was just laid off today. It looks like they fired everyone in my department with over 2 years experience in my band.
Phoenix Intelligrated closing plant by October
@1hlg
Add to that the North East engineering. Seems most if not all are gone from there.
Friend of mine in CLT was let go last week. The RTW mandate is phase 2. After that, more thinning. This always happens folks
Does anyone know if round 2 is coming?
Thanks for the heads up. I will relook at our proposal from Dematic. They seem much more honest than the slick haired, skinny suits, from Honeywell who come across as arrogant. Bye-bye HON.
I've heard Charlotte, Mason, Chicago, and West Coast.
Can confirm that Honeywell Voice (SPS) has had layoffs, not sure of the extent yet.
What a disaster. This is why you shouldn't put all your eggs into one basket. Clearly huge efforts were made to bend over backwards for Amazon for order and manufacturing priority while other customers were pushed aside. Now the chickens have come home to roost. Good luck getting those other customers back.
What really stings is that the executives who make these asinine decisions rarely pay the price when these risky games backfire... yet everyone else does, often by losing their jobs. As a final thank you they will pull in H1B visas once the dust settles and demand picks up again...
More info about SPS teams affected, please?
Same within SPS. Effective 8/31 (tomorrow)