I'm virtual in Europe, do I have a number on my back ?
How long have I left realistically
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Most managers and executives just look out for themselves and are convinced that other employees will pick up the slack or somehow AI will be the miracle solution. The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are to heavy to be broken.
@1es I am not 1cj, but here's my 2 cents.
Opentext have chopped my team by 80%.
I no longer get paid overtime and the workload has increase due to reduced team size.
The product offerings are getting sold off, relabel without clear benefits or lack investment.
New people trained last year are leaving the company or layoff.
Shouldn't the management be rectified before you have a crack at the employees ?
@1cj anyone that agrees with you are full of shi_
You are just pi---d that you can't sit around in your jammies all day doing nothing to help the company succeed.
Teams need to be together. Maybe not every day. But MOST days they need to be together. Period. End of Story.
If you don't understand this, you have NEVER truly been a part of a successful team.
Putting in overtime when it is required and sometimes it is a lot!
Helping new people come up to speed
Teaching other groups in the company more about product offerings.
But no, you sit in your stupid little chair and say, I don't have to contribute anything to anybody but myself.
You will never be sucessfull with that attitude. EVER!
@1a9 could be. Your activity in the applications. Against EU law and no notice shared prior that rollout.
@1cj some of OpenText’s most valuable assets are real estate.
Only three kinds of people oppose remote work.
1) Middle managers who need to justify their existence and crave petty power.
2) People who hate their home life and/or lack any semblance of friends without office culture.
3) Landlords and bankers with office real estate
@19c Does this mean tracking employee location?
They are now watching EU performance region with new browser extensions.
@a7 I disagree James will be the bad cop CEO conducting RIF now and Ayman can play good cop CEO when he comes in in April.
9 Years
@OP how. Many years with ot
We’ll know a lot more after the earnings call. Stock holders need to hear a reason to hold vs sell our stock.
I don't think anything will happen until April, in regards to layoffs. April 2024 was brutal remember too.
Why, because they'll wait to see the outcome of this first phase of return to office. How many leave between now end of March.
Once they have a baseline of the number of staff that's already left they will look to RIF where needed with virtual being number #1 target.
In Europe you do have stronger employment laws, I suspect if further than 50km to the nearest office your role will be made redundant eventually wherever you are in Europe and that role will move to India or other low cost center.
Then another waiting period from September to October for same reason, with another round of layoffs in November.
USA, UK, Europeans are top of the list due to salaries and benefit costs, especially virtual.
Looking at sources like Levels.fyi, Stack Overflow, Glassdoor, etc.
Junior SWE:
🇺🇸 USA $95,000 - $140,000
🇬🇧 UK $45,000 - $65,000
🇪🇺 Europe (DE/NL) $50,000 - $65,000
🇮🇳 India $6,000 - $15,000
@OP You (assuming the EU doesn't implode) actually may have better protections than the other regions.
You may want to see what deal, if any, is worked out.