Today I was laid off from Kelly and told my last day is tomorrow. Was told they do not refer to this as a layoff, rather a job elimination due to economic impacts. Was told by my other internal connection I have relationships within leadership, no more hiring in 2023 unless you have a current open req. If someone leaves your team positions may or may not be backed filled if your manager has leadership pull and data to back need. I was told, there are others across the company also being eliminated.
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Kelly is so fu---d. Keep rearranging the furniture and lay people off when you need to show the street good financials.
You name a Sr. Leader past and present. They’ll all id--ts.
Peter Q posting that he is retiring.......Destroy the company and retire
So glad I got out when I did...They off shored a lot of IT and with the lies of Brian Payne the moved over to an over priced enterprise app.
Be grateful because Kelly is a sad company with weak, timid leaders-especially in HR.
At least you got one day's notice. I was informed Friday that my contract was terminated due to a staff reduction and that Friday (not scheduled to work) was my last day. I gave HR a day to contact me, but so far I've heard nothing about a severance package, continuation of benefits, payout of sick days, nothing...... not a word. I'm pretty sure in my state companies over 100 employees have a required advanced notice and severance pay.
I had excellent performance reviews and was told those were not a factor. Then what was?
I worked for Kelly Services for 15 years. Mr. Adderly was president when I began my career. The elevation of Carl Camden to CEO was the beginning of the end. He was a marketing guy who didn't have the first idea about marketing staffing. Branch staff was always hammered about the way we treated our temporary staff. We were told, and rightly so, that without the employees we wouldn't have a business. Too bad Kelly Corporate didn't adhere to the same idea. Management at Kelly was a master class at failing up.
I was lucky enough to have this happen 7 years ago after 25 years with Kelly. So grateful to be out of the craziness. They have closed all of their offices in my area now and have lost all of the 30M in business that I had. It is sad to see the company about people care so little about people especially those that have been committed for so many years.
Deb Thorpe sunk the ship. Her model was for skilled worker: not unskilled. There’s no way possible to manage warehouse employees without being present on-site and housed in a local office. Deb dismantled the Kelly brands.
Revisiting a team meeting call: Deb had the audacity to talk about her 2nd home in Florida when 10% of the employees were taken away.
Way to go Deb you ruined so many people livelihood!
I was let go in the first round of layoffs earlier this year from Kelly. Sad to see so many affected this time. The leadership is decimating the company. Kelly used to be an excellent brand, but for a staffing company, they have no idea how to run one.
Kelly was a great company back in the late 90’s early 2000’s. They put too many people in VP positions who had no leadership or vision skills whatsoever. The transfer to Peter Quigley was a huge leadership mistake. The man is not the one to bring Kelly out of this. This is what happens when you keep people around for 25 years who milk the system but know the right butts to kiss.
Peter Quigley is way in over his head. Should never have put him in charge.
The 250 number stated above is incorrect, the number is actually 396.
Peter quigleys “leadership” has driven this company into the ground!
My position was eliminated yesterday, 2 weeks shy of my 30 year anniversary. No notice, just a call from HR with a well rehearsed scripted message. My immediate manager was not even aware that it was going to happen. My team is devastated that I'm gone. Deb Thorpe's misguided vision put Kelly on a track for destruction. When she saw how much the company suffered due to her poor decisions, she jumped ship.
A people company that can't seem to figure out to manage their best resource - their people. This company has become a huge joke. Pioneered the staffing industry, but getting run over despite their recent "top Staffing agency" award.
Unfortunately, my position was eliminated at Kelly yesterday. After having a great leadership team(they feel), which keeps sharing new ideas of business growth, Kelly has still failed to retain the best talent they had. I have not heard about the layoffs in any other recruiting agencies so far!! It was uncertain but keeping my hopes high.
I spent a decade at Kelly and finally left after the 3rd major reorganization in 2+ years. Deb Thorpe decimated the P&I business and their new "service model" has really hurt them. After laying off so many tenured and talented leaders during the first reorg it's not surprising how much they lost in terms of business relationships and operational knowledge. Mr. Kelly and Mr. Adderley must be turning over in their graves at the way the culture there has been destroyed. George Corona and Peter Quigley had no business being elevated to the CEO role. From the whispers I've heard out of leadership they've been trying to sell off their Professional and Industrial business line for at least 3 years now.
I find it interesting that a company who is a specialist in staffing cannot figure out what they are doing with their business structure, direction or staffing levels.
They also do not do regular performance reviews so it's a popularity vote to who gets sent off the island. Time to wake up
and get a consultant in to really assess the top levels of leadership. There are great people being laid off - another round today! Meanwhile average and below average performers continue to stay on and ruin good people.
Kelly is going off a cliff.. totally lost.
The horrible top leadership is the downfall.They have been setting themselves up for a sale or carve up for years.
You were told a lot.