Hi, I'm at Walgreens. What support center jobs/departments were hit with the layoffs the first year of Sycamore Partners buying Staples? Appreciate the insight of where I could be in the chopping block.
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Not supposed by the decision considering the 4 hours work day at the US offices and 1 hour for the offshore. Having a blast.
@ce They are just a much higher cost and likely make bad d
Business decisions too. They get golden parachutes anyway. More underperforming area managers that are layers of bureaucracy then customer support & junior sales roles will get weeded out(if Walgreens really has much of that).
SLT = Senior Leadership Team
Yep, SLT was the first to go.
No one is safe when SP acquires. They don’t value tenure or experience. If you are highly compensated you will be targeted first. Definitely the SLT is first that gets looked at. They need the minions to learn what they need to learn at the lower levels. They don’t get impacted until further down the road.