Anyone else have the sense that there will be another round of layoffs and contraction coming in early Q3?
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I haven't heard anything internally about Finance. or any teams. How come nobody knows this? to not scare people? im really sorry that's happening.
Thanks for the Christmas present of laying the finance team off! CDW has the worse CFO CEO AND FINANCE VP! They are outsourcing 200 of us to India and threatening us our crapy severence if we dont train them until our final day jan 2nd 2024.
Layoffs were before the quarter results. Layoffs were April 23rd and the earnings came out May 3rd.
Notice that large meetings that we’ve had quarterly in years past seem to have disappeared in 2023. It’s as if the leaders can’t face us.
Earnings for Q2 get reported week after next. I’m trying to remember whether the last big round of layoffs were right before or right after the Q1 earnings report. I think it was right before…
The right answer should be: management and executives, since we are very much bloated up top, and there are very unnecessary layers of leadership.
The short answer will be: a mix of all demographics, levels and departments.
The longer answer might be: coworkers covering segments and product and partners teams where there has been substantial declines, such as small business, devices, accessories, digital signage / AV, etc.
So what groups would be laid off next, workers, management or executives
Hope Chris Leahy follows Elon Twitter example to cut expenses
Middle Management is mostly USELESS
I’ve very rarely seen any true leadership, presence, or inventiveness in the many middle-management types I’ve worked with over the years. They’re all married to outdated technology, they come up with ineffective processes then cling to them like security blankets, they use bullsh_it jargon, they needlessly over-staff branches beneath them to look important, they usually have the most toxic/pathetic devotion to their job, and they’re exploitative of their own employees. Stagnant wages across industries are largely due to the very top hoarding money but middle management often facilitates that abusive dynamic between the 1% and the working class. They’re all too often the lapdog of whatever prevailing authority there is. That said, there are some very sharp middle managers who “get it” and are the opposite of everything I’ve said but for every one of them there are three or four dinks worshipping fax machines.
I say all this because I’m truly sick of so many in this professional stooge class routinely f__king their employees over. They waste their time with excessive trainings, endless hoops made of red tape, deceptive job descriptions, micromanagement, a frivolous regard for their time, and an absolute contempt for any ideas they might have.
Some have started now, not sure how many.
I'm hearing that the next round of layoffs will be in October.
I'd imagine that Chris Leahy never wanted to be recognized as the first CDW CEO to have more than one layoff during her regime, let alone two. None of the EC members want more layoffs. The best thing to do is keep your head down, keep grinding away and hope for the best. Thinking about it will only stress you out. It's not just us. The entire industry is going through it as well. Onwards and upwards.
yes alot of us in our team feel this way. It's a shame, we love working here.