Software engineering director quit the job last week and electrical engineering manager few weeks earlier. What is going on? Is there enough work? Is that why they are quitting?
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The competitors for IGS seem to disagree. In fact they have been scooping up IGS employees in droves ever since HW took it over... and especially now.
The offshoring won't be reversed overnight... it's been going the other way for forty years. Any reversals in the near term will be small and strategic so the overall tide won't be changing any time soon, unfortunately.
Bottom line is that the world is changing and Honeywell leadership sees it coming. The time of sending all the parts to china to get cheap assembly labor is ending. Shipping and transport has suddenly become expensive enough to more than offset any advantage in moving goods internationally on giant container ships.
What does this have to do with IGS? ... short supply lines means fewer hubs and less business for logistics.
The world is going to race to local sourcing and on-demand manufacturing. IGS will need to retool to serve that new model and it needs to happen quickly.
The first canary will be disruptions in the global shipping (oops.. check), the second canary will be an increase in attacks on shipping (aka pirating) and or massive tariffs and loss of rights for port of calls.
The same problem is affecting others businesses within SPS. Many are losing patience with the incompetent leadership. It has never been this bad. Engineering in particular is going to the dogs.
Not naming names, but I've heard that there are folks in upper management that are very difficult to work with. It seems to be mostly related to people who are upper management with no experience the IGS business. And there are plenty of companies that are pursuing the IGS talent.