Thread regarding Adidas layoffs

I’m an expat living here and I can validate most of Germany does about 1-2 hours of actual work a day. The rest is meetings / PowerPoint / coffee / and more coffee

Funnily enough, I’m sure some people think the same about OP.

Not saying you are completely wrong but I judged people like that in the past only to find out they were doing boring but necessary work.

Also, having worked in a few markets I can tell you that most of them think that everything everyone in Laces does is drink coffee and go on holidays. Do with that what you will…

The OP is way over the top, but I partially agree. There are in fact roles you can remove and no one will face a relevant negative impact.

However, we are a big company and we need global processes for a lot of areas to be efficient - handled by employees which have no direct impact on the bottom line.

But over time, these global teams got blown up and started involving themselves in market responsibilities more & more.
Do we really think, that someone sitting in Herzo knows which style is „hot“ in China, which marketing campaign we should use in Brazil or which street in San Francisco is a good spot for a store?

To positive impact of this global involvement is minor while the additional complexity causes workload and delays.

The OP sounds like coming from the mouth of an M1 or above.
When has having psychopaths in charge of people become normalized? Serfdom at its finest.

It’s a dangerous narrative to assume being laid off means poor performers, and usually not true, trust me, they are looking at orgs, not details and often not who.

So many talented people I know have been laid off, including some great leaders who ended up at adi.

Try empathy and not being an a-s

Do let us know about how meritocracy works and how MAGA only is the way to go. What a hateful piece of S*** post and of a person you are, posting the same hateful ideas one after the other.
Germany and other European countries have been successful because of the social policies that still treats people as human beings, labor rights and laws.
Pack your bags and move to the MAGA country unless you are already there.
This type of intolerant behaviour has been tolerated at adidas for too long.
Yes, truth hurts, intolerant Po*

The sad part is that lazy ones always stay yet sharp ones are quick to leave because of the environment created by lazy ones who actually bring zero value to the business.

Truth! This post is the biggest bo-b dropped on the Nuremberg region since WWII

Honestly we could get rid of 33% of all workers and likely be more nimble, agile, and efficient.

For instance - how many “aspen” requests does a person have to open to even get the tools needed or do their job?

How often has Puerto mangled payments and contracts they cost us money?

How many project managers just exist to create PowerPoint slides and then read them verbatim in a meeting?

How many meetings do we have about meetings we had?

Townhalls, trip reports, needless expenses on trinkets we don’t need that don’t help do what we need to do: win

All the people managing that fluff, likely add up to a huge number