Comcast has been significantly cutting down workforce in the US and is on a hiring spree in India. Started office in Chennai couple of years back and are now opening more offices in other cities like Bangalore and Pune.
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I think in the future I will have to talk with a Indian accent in order to get a job. Am I still in America?
@1ej3 Any Comcast US side employee d-mb enough to believe management that they are not training their replacements are incredibly foolish and live with their heads in the sand.
More layoffs. Employees training their replacements in India then being let go.
I would love to see this turn into a PR nightmare. Lying to employees about why they’re training a team in India basically digging their own graves.
@mgg+1umD4Lvv
Over the past ~30 months, there have been dozens of smaller lay-offs--the largest of which I am aware of was about 30 individuals--under the guise of corporate reorganization. Many of those have directly impacted National jobs within various Engineering groups spanning Comcast's Headquarters facilities between Philadelphia, Mount Laurel (Bishops Gate, more specifically), and Denver.
Comcast has tactically performed lay-offs in series of small "waves" from at least October 2022 through January 2025. If this were tallied up and shared as a single lay-off event (likely thousands of employees), Comcast/Xfinity would be buried under an epic PR nightmare. Combine that with the fact that many of these positions either have been or are currently posted for fulfillment in Comcast India Engineering Center (CEIC) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, and it would be further damning of this company's image/reputation and trustworthiness. Comcast's PACs contributions walk the political tightwire with 51% of funds going to Democrats and 49% going to Republicans. I wonder how Trump's MAGA base would feel about Comcast off-shoring American jobs?
It’s just the way the country is going. All uneducated labor is to be sent to India, Philippines, and other countries better suited than Americans for this labor. Your management is in agreement with this.
"Maybe if you do your job like we do in India then you would not have the need to care."
Poorly, begrudgingly and incompetently? When a customer or employee has an overseas rep answer the call, they know they're in for a 3 hour marathon of answering the same question 30 times and having to re-explain issues constantly. How arrogant.
@fbxz+1umD4Lvv I work for Comcast and the sales ops team I used to call based on the USA transferred to India yesterday, no one could do their job, massive incompetence, and wasted 3 hours of my time trying to get a very simple issue fixed.
Good! Better to get rid of the waste while we can. Hopefully we can start fully contracting out tech work soon.
Maybe if you do your job like we do in India then you would not have the need to care. Americans are useless except they have money to save by hiring us. Kindly rethink what you are trying to say.
Manila and India are going to continue to grow. The labor is very cost effective for Comcast, they hire them rather an outsource through contracting, allowing skirting of disclosure of layoffs in US. There will continue to be reductions in Comcast US labor force.
Are you really surprised? Comcast is a terrible company to work for.
When you say South Jersey, do you mean Bishops Gate or the Moorestown office? I was in the NED and laid off with other coworkers in my department this year.
My job was eliminated in July (South Jersey), outsourced to a new Manila office. At least 80 others in my layoff group.
Hey @byh+1umD4Lvv
Have not heard of any NJ orgs being impacted.
Can you elaborate?
Yep , massive layoffs yesterday cutting teams in half in nj.