Here is what I captured in our threads over last two days, I hope this helps somebody:
===== A. Technology, Engineering, and Cybersecurity =====
- "They are laying off tons of Cyber Security employees at the moment." (@c6+1k8nb9xqa)
- "TES is getting gutted." (@c5+1k8nb9xqa)
- "The entire GXC team has an invite on the calendar. Fiddelke and his cronies are insane, their email specifically said a goal was to 'accelerate technology'." (@c4+1k8nb9xqa)
- "Tech is getting hit with them as well." (@bh+1k8nb9xqa)
- "Target plans to outsource all of tech, engineering, and security, what does not get moved to India will be outsourced to a contract here in the US." (@a2+1k8njmzmw)
- "Tech / R&D - Nothing yet!" (@a5+1k8neramv)
- "TES Procurement." (@a5+1k8nd7sed)
- "Which team of cyber? Does anyone in cyber received an email?" (@df+1k8khq2xa)
- "The entire r&d/new technology team was let go. Their lab, which is where lots of teams went for testing and where they gave tours to outside groups, is dark and empty." (@ba+1k8rbk1en)
- "Lots of engineers, TES: L4s in service centers got hit hard, also L6, and WFM." (@OP+1k8p4z1py)
- "I’ve seen two senior engineers get laid off from digital. Also saw a principle get laid off from research and development area." (@a4+1k8nx6h2k)
- "Food supply chain lost a few directors." (@dx+1k8khq2xa)
- "EA is gone." (@a7+1k8nj573p)
- "Enterprise Insights." (@a3+1k8ngxvkj)
- "Data Analytics — My husband was just laid off. He's technically in the Tech space so looks like no sector is safe. He wasn't an engineer btw." (@ab+1k8nm3hwg)
- "In my department most are L6 and L5 and the cuts were: 5x L7, 5x L6, 2x L5." (@a8+1k8p5x96h)
- "The company's performance was lagging, so today's layoffs are the sad and painful result of that lackluster performance." (@OP+1k8nfxb8q)
===== B. Merchandising, Planning, and Design =====
- "L7 planning directors. Remote L7 merchant directors." (@a8+1k8ngp8jp)
- "A few contacts in Merch Planning have posted on LinkedIn that they were cut." (@ac+1k8np3z05)
- "All buyers and planners did not survive." (@a8+1k8nr1dcy)
- "Did planners company wide get laid off or just in F&B and E&B?" (@a4+1k8ntf0w6)
- "I believe any L7 (director) planning role was cut. Merch Planning had roles from L4-L9. A few L8s and I believe 1-2 L9s as well." (@aj+1k8nr1dcy)
- "Merchandising includes Buyers/Sourcing/Design/Tech, right?" (@aa+1k8neramv)
- "Merch (design)." (@OP+1k8njsv5g)
- "Creative (marketing) is gone, too no?" (@a1+1k8nngs71)
- "Properties, Merch, Store Ops — so far..." (@a2+1k8neramv)
- "Properties." (@OP+1k8neramv)
- "They eliminated our US director so everybody reports directly to India now." (@a7+1k8r4vhg6)
- "Some teams disappeared entirely (e.g. the Multilanguage team that handled all translations.)" (@a3+1k8ref4pn)
- "This is the breakdown of the layoffs by position in the US: Director - 87, Manager - 56, Lead - 45, Analyst - 19, Principle - 9, Associate - 6, Partner - 5, Specialist - 4, Engineer - 3, Auditor - 3, Accountant - 2, Designer - 2, Admin Assistant - 2, Recruiter - 2, Consultant - 2, Scientist - 1, Other - 11." (@a5+1k8p4cdjv)
- "Agostino said names of teams and people who were let go in a team meeting today, when's he getting fired for leaking names?" (@a6+1k8rgty6d)
===== C. Customer Service, Operations, and Call Centers =====
- "Quite a few of us across CSC." (@c0+1k8nb9xqa)
- "L7 on my team. Store ops." (@bp+1k8nb9xqa)
- "The call centers got hit hard. L2 - directors. Gone." (@ac+1k8ny0d51)
- "DGS/CSC/GCS mega hits." (@a3+1k8p4z1py)
- "GS, CSC, GR — Any word on how the call centers faired?" (@a2+1k8p2ba0w)
- "All three? what are you talking about? 5 leaders (including Sr. Manager and Director). DGS/CSC/GCS were completely gutted." (@ac+1k8nxp7tb)
- "400 TCB employees laid off." (@a2+1k8p53mv4)
- "TCC is gone, and all service center TLs are gone." (@ak+1k8pgaz3b)
- "AP. Higher up leadership has a private." (@a7+1k8neramv)
- "Legal Affairs or Investigations — I see 9am blocked off on a L7 and L8 I think." (@c8+1k8nb9xqa)
===== D. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community =====
- "They let go most of the DEI teams and the company is being transformed into a sweat shop with no values or morals." (@OP+1k8rtbfab)
- "The diversity team just changed their name to community impact or something like that and none of them were touched by layoffs." (@a9+1k8r4q82d)
- "The diversity team doesn’t exist anymore." (@a5+1k8r41pyx)
- "Much more supply chain folks next time. Community and belonging will also be affected once those holiday photos come off the fridge." (@ad+1k8rtbfab)
===== E. Finance, Analytics, and Administrative =====
- "Finance impacted?" (@ad+1k8neramv)
- "TES Procurement" and "Finance impacted" both mentioned as affected functional areas. (@a5+1k8nd7sed, @ad+1k8neramv)
- "Official WARN notice... Positions affected include: Accountant, Analyst, Director Finance Strategy & Operations, Sr Manager Tech, Sr Manager Cybersecurity, Sr Recruiter, Team Lead Financial Products, Team Lead Guest Relations, Team Lead TCC Delivery Services, Tech Operations Program Manager, Vendor Manager." (@ad+1k8np2as9)
- "Communications." (@a2+1k8nghft6)
- "Design/PDD Teams — anyone get emails? What levels? What Divisions?" (@a5+1k8nf9ynm)
===== F. General, Multi-Area, or Target-Wide Mentions =====
- "Tech / R&D - Nothing yet!" (@a5+1k8neramv)
- "Tech, digital & cyber so far so good today. but... are we just left for latter and will there be a massive cut within these groups as well?" (@a7+1k8p1j133)
- "The company's performance was lagging, so today's layoffs are the sad and painful result of that lackluster performance." (@OP+1k8nfxb8q)
- "From what I’ve seen it’s mostly been low performing ICs in digital. Minimal impact. But I’ve heard rumors that there will be another wave that will hit digital harder after peak." (@a3+1k8nrdpg3)
- "Very sad to see research and development teams eliminated, it always seems like the first thing to go in a mass layoff like this." (@OP+1k8pntp9g)
- "In my area, all the L7s were let go were doing the work of an L5 or even an L4." (@a6+1k8r7fqnj)
- "The distribution list that was used to email people who were laid off was shared." (@a5+1k8pkdyew)
- "Associate buyer Sr Consultant Financial Products Lead IDO Specialist Sr AP Tech Investigations Sr FSQ Specialist Home Based Sr Specialist CSC Principal Engineer US Sr Photo Producer Associate Fabric Engineer — from what I saw." (@aa+1k8nqwqqq)
- "TII employees that were not impacted received an email telling they would continue to be a team member. Apparently guest facing and marketing teams were most impacted." (@a5+1k8n55yrd)
- "completely gutted." (@a4+1k8p2em87)