I heard that McKinsey will be moving on from PSBU and going to EBU. Have fun with that. If you dont know who they are I would check out John Oliver's last week tonight deep dive on them. With the slow downs in EBU (shifts being cut, layoffs, reduced work weeks) and now McKinsey, I would watch out there.
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Why do you think they have essentially a hiring freeze in Cummins and employees are being poached and/or "borrowed" into other depts.? It's because the economy is hitting everybody and also inflation period. Then add to the fact that in CTC there has been major reorganizing of duties with exempt and such. From what I have heard and been privy too, many are trying to position themselves for the corporate RIFT that they know is coming sometime next year. Remember she still (Rumsey) talked about individuals working from home and saying that 60/40 split (which is lower than what she wanted in the beginning). You know she doesn't like that people are pushing back on that from the start of the year.
I think they are going to use how often you where in the office compared to at home working as a ja major metric to decide if your position needs to be gotten rid of, including the hourly admin who take advantage of it also.
@4h5 I don’t think anyone is being a wet blanket. This job market su-ks. And layoffs have become so commonplace in many industries.
It normal for people to worry.
Ya'll need to quit being a bunch of wet blanket bi--hes. Cummins was recognized by Forbes as one of America’s best employers for company culture; rated as a top military-friendly employer by Military Friendly®; and named “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion” for the fifth consecutive year by achieving a high score of 100 on the Disability Index®.
@4d2 I mean the Q3 results were good do perhaps there won't be one?
Will there be RIF ?
McKinsey is in every office and plant not just in Columbus. I overheard one of the McKinsey consultants that is auditing our office tell a manager that they have to turn in their reports by the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
McKinsey is a very unethical organization. It’s astounding that Cummins now relies on them as their main consultants to make their decisions. When the deciders at the top are not morally accountable, the company is not ethical. Leadership at Cummins means being willing to sell your soul to the devil McKinsey for profit. Do we really believe we have ethical leaders at Cummins anymore? Whether it’s cheating emissions tests, laying off thousands on the whim of our institutional investors, covering up a major HSE failure, or working hand-in-hand with a scandle-riddled organization In McKinsey, we have really become a fairly morally corrupt company. Anyone opposed to this perspective?
If they are going to the engine business unit, they are going to cut alot of the office staff and depts. at the tech centers especially CTC. Alot of our cells aren't running and we have alot of personnel from salary and hourly working in the new building, the fishbowl (center of the tech center building) and at home. With the way the economy is and everyone is cutting personnel (especially with the advent of AI) they won't need alot of these personnel from the hourly Admins to the salary admins because they essentially have made AI agents that took over their jobs.
If any of you are apart of the Cummins AI forum and group they had a 2 hour presentation back in the summer where at the end of the presentation about AI and what is going on and such and not to be scared and use the AI as something like an assistant, a person asked if the AI agent/prompts that you designed for your job and you leave the company can yo take it with you and the answer was an astounding and abrupt no. They said it was the companies property and it stays. From HR to data to whatever, they are finding out that they don't need as much people and definitely don't have to fight about working from home or a half schedule of percentage at work and at home.
I believe they are going to cut alot of people just you wait.
Nothing like having a bunch of twenty-something year old consultants with no industry experience advise leadership on the best course of action for business. I bet they use the same PPTs and “problem solving” tools they used in DBU. Funny how all these consultants come to the same conclusion; reduce headcount, while also manipulating leaders to tell everyone that the headcount reduction will actually save our jobs. Same old playbook from terrible Cummins leaders.
The whole “consultants come and help us improve so we don’t need to make people redundant” idea is a scam. Everyone knows that if McKinsey comes it means redundancies because the quickest and biggest savings can only be made on headcount reduction. And because most of these consultants are clueless about business improvements, never worked in the industry so they only have academic knowledge of business operations which rarely match the real world.
@b9 Yea, after watching the show I was blown away that Cummins was okay with using them. They are the scapegoat so leaders dont have to actually be leaders. Leaders will still be in their roles after McKinsey is gone even though they were the ones that got us to a place that there needed to be a RIF and couldnt be a good leader previously. McKinsey gets % on the the "savings" they help fund so they are all about being ruthless. BSY is a load of cr-p when they also use McKinsey behind the scenes to do their dirty work. Vulnerable leadership my a**.
Hope there are RIF at DARLINGTON DEP there will be a stampede.
@r0 so they'll go through ideation first with mckinsey where all employees in that BU will provide suggestions on how to save money and that's when there'll be opportunities for suggestions for RIF. They'll then have to build business cases to justify how they'll manage a RIF for that area. Q3 results in November is when they may announce something.
From what I heard, once consultants are hired, RIF follows. Does anyone has any intel if Components will be next in the chopping board?
Hope there come to DARLINGTON DEP a lot of dead wood there Stevie T comes to mind
More automation, more production in lower cost countries and more job cuts. The McKinsey playbook is ridiculously predictable.
@OP Worked in distribution when McKinsey came in to "help". It is brutal: change for the sake of change, made it harder to take care of customers, centralized most aspects of the day to day operations, you end up losing staff, it's the "do more with less" style of work. In the end they ki-l morale and hurt customers. Also McKinsey was involved in the opi--d crisis and was fined $650 mil for the damage they did and Cummins still is OK with using them.
Just seen John Olivers last week tonight going to be a blood bath