Anyone know when the leaders deciding the company would need to eliminate 25-30% of corporate/back office positions? Was this in the works for awhile?
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A what have you done for me lately, how likely is your position/service to contribute to market share and revenue going forward approach
Around about the time people were getting RTO warnings which was also shortly after the workday update requirement. If you didn't login to it or see the email, then may not be aware of the requirement. I had a pending action item after getting the email from HR. So, corporate is using it somehow.. march through end of july but they pushed it back to august
At their mansions, each one individually by starring at the mirror while intoxicated and admiring their sense of uniqueness.
Synergies and reductions come with every merger. Still sux.
This was planned before the merger.
John Legere spoke of synergies often.
When PTO rollover went back to 40 hours, and they said Sprint legacy PTO would not be paid when/if you left.
Like many big companies they are always ranking employees so when they have to do this it already planned.
i was told by my VP a year ago that this was coming.
"I got told by a Director friend that decisions were made in July, but they waited for some reason (likely to incur the cost in 4Q rather than 3Q) until the announcement by Skinny Jeans Sievert."
Nah. Planning started in early Q2. Cuts were planned for June, but not as deep. Postponement occurred to align more across the enterprise as well as to accelerated future reduction plans for ultimately deeper cuts.
then it was only to vps and dmts/smts?
For many orgs, that is correct. There are exceptions depending on the make-up of the org.
but some say senior managers didnt knew about this.
The workday profiles reveal nothing that senior managers and directors don't already know. Zero layoff decisions have been made based on Workday profiles. Just plain silly to think otherwise.
I would think this is at least a year in the making, i would think the first thing you would want to do is reduce the rollover PTO folks have booked before they would have to pay it out in a layoff scenario. So “use it for your mental health!” Was born.
were they looking at workday profile while making decision?
Job posting reqs froze around July for positions that were affected. I would say sometime leading up to that.
this is likely in the works for a while. Mass layoff like this needs a lot of preparation. T-mobile likely hired an external consulting company to oversee the layoff. This is to protect the company from legal lawsuits. Each org is likely given a target budget that they have to meet. The org leaders can't cherry pick individuals to let go or retain. But they will have flexibility on what criteria to apply in their org to meet the target budget cuts. The criteria produce the list that they can't alter. The list has to go through a series of legal review to make sure that there was no bias when selecting the criteria.
Who cares…
decisions were made at massage spa in thailand!
I got told by a Director friend that decisions were made in July, but they waited for some reason (likely to incur the cost in 4Q rather than 3Q) until the announcement by Skinny Jeans Sievert.
Remember when they asked you to update WorkDay? Right after then.
Pre-merger with Sprint.