Thread regarding Cargill layoffs

1week/year but nothing is for sure.

Whats their severance package if any? I have strong feeling I am part of next lay off list

It was actually closer to 700 people globally including contractors. However, doesn’t seem like much thought was put into the who was laid off as managers and business leadership weren’t aware or consulted.

This is what you get when you promote sycophants. Leadership has zero vision and the whole IT re-org is now taking of total 18 months with multiple missed deadlines and zero apologies or reflection. Eliminating EC building in MIN only to have new office off-site of the HQ in Atlanta? LOL nice strategy.

Yes, IT in Cargill is (was?) overblown but the way it worked was that there was 20 powerpoint makes for every 5 people that actually deployed/maintained/coded - that's the primary problem and shift that would need to happen but it means a lot of heads in the management to be reduced, the same management that drives "the transformation".

Cut the fat at the top not at the bottom. Thirty years employee

Worst CIO ever. Why move a Minnesota based company who’s IT headquarters was sound here to Atlanta? Nothing to do with costs. These large ERP projects are understaffed but you have twenty managers over you daily. That’s where money is wasted. In the meantime the people who knew how to do the work are all gone now and we are left with people who can make fancy power points and spreadsheets and no one to maintain the systems. Leadership in IT the last two years has been absolutely disastrous.

I was one of the laid off people and a female with 40 years of experience. Their spin to the press is a flat out lie.

Most companies have too many IT employees, by half.

I was there for this yesterday - this report is spot on. Laid people off en masse in cold meetings.