Sabre will never be the same again because this is a huge loss of institutional knowledge for this company. I think the damage done by these layoffs is irreparable……
I don't think the leaders gave enough thought to the fact that damage is easy to make but sometimes almost impossible to fix!?
Sabre is not a tech company.
If it was, it would hire CEOs with technical background, not hoteliers, travel agents, and small airline managers.
Does Google hire a librarian or private detective as a CEO, because it is a search company?
Was Uber founded by a former owner of a huge taxi company? Or rental car business owner?
What about Booking?
Is it managed by a former maid?
Airbnb?
I am a former Sabre (and AA) employee, put in 32 years and was laid off in 2020. With my severance and subsidized Cobra, it bridged me into retirement and I haven't looked back. Happily retired!
I managed to get by unscathed through numerous layoffs during my tenure, but for those who didn't I think nearly all of them came out of it just fine, many better off.
While getting laid off is a very tough pill to swallow, if you had the skills to get hired at Sabre in the first place, I would say your odds of rebounding are very good.
If knowledge is not documented , the same with processes and procedures , then i call that bad management . We know all people are special and have unique values, but business needs to be structured in a way that it doesnt depend on individuals . The damage is that great people have to go through unemployment for some period and stress, from company perspective it should be no difference .
Totally disagree about the institutional knowledge. Yes some great talent with years of experience and knowledge were part of the actions taken but keep in mind this is not the same Sabre as years ago. The connectivity is quite different. With MFOL you are taking antiquated systems and refreshing them and hopefully making them less complex.
As systems are updated the previous knowledge of how things worked and were put together become less important.
Sabre is a tech company, therefore old farts without Comp. Science degree are not valuable.
@jpk+1mEGJXWK. You sound exactly as someone who doesn't know sh!t of what is talking about.
Perhaps in the last 6 years they did not let go our main sources of knowledge but this time they really did. People with more than 20,30 years working with AA/ sabre.
I'm not sure we will recover from this.
With every layoff round I keep hearing the same whining over and over. Dear employees, you are not special and your special knowledge is not as valuable as you think it is.
I have seen articles of Oracle buying the SHS/SPH products. I have to think they’re having some kind of liquidation after these moves. They are a junk stock right now, and I would spend one cent on Sabre stock.
I feel for those that have lost their jobs and the emotions of it but engineering is not the same as back in the days. There are enough info that the people left behind can piece together/copy to do the job and if it doesn't work then they can always blame not having enough resource to buy some time. I would rather think of as a moving on to the next challenge in life and look forward.
The reason "leadership" cut all the folks with industry expertise was because this was a precursor for a big selloff
Maybe the ones left will not be worrying about old stuff but whatever is salvageable and unsellable.
Completely agree.In one day we've lost knowledge built for decades and unique skills that are not tranferrable.It was the worst choice of candidates for layoffs in Sabre history,leaving those who stayed speechless and hopeless.
all that experience is massively undervalued obviously. Its evident that the target was long term employees who are nothing but $$$ to the company.
they are not leaders.. and by looks of it their job is exactly what they are doing right now..