Thread regarding Fossil Inc. layoffs

Our European colleagues are definitely not happy with this mandate. Just one more exec decision to dishearten the folks that have been loyal. SMH. how many more bad decisions can mgt make? And WTF has A&M done to help besides let go the talent that can make this company actually run?

Well, the breaks were really just... grab food and sit at the computer and forget that it's there while working most of the time. 🤣

Damn, you were getting lunch AND dinner breaks? Jealous. I don’t think I’ve had a lunch break since 2020 when we went remote.

Haha! The corporate overlords have spoken! Pandemic is over until the next one. We need control of our underlings!

Being able to work for only three hours would be cool. Wonder what that role was?

To prepare for BF/CM in November, I often saw 12-14 hour long days on the regular as a remote worker. Imagine days where you take both lunch and dinner breaks.

Every hybrid worker i know say they only put in 3hrs and finish their work. Rest of the time they do stuff around the house.

Felt tone deaf and cold. Also what year is this?!

The amount of people in these comments that think people who WFH/Hybrid are not working is INSANE. IMO, lots of them I’ve met are some of the hardest working in the company. Different environments work better for different people.

How cute that you say that when I've lost a LOT of Fridays from working late while working remote, Glam.

There are people who just seem to have forgotten that work is still needs to get done and decided to straight up ignore the requests I made of them. And they were still in the office.

Try again.

So surprised that all of you 3 day a weekers are so upset. You still get every Friday off

Teams absolutely already have remote meetings. My department works closely with EMEA and APAC and when I was in the office, a LOT of the meetings I was in were already just at my desk with a headset.

And if they were called in to a meeting room, the people who called to it remotely were often just not very much a part of the conversation because it wasn't very convenient to the meeting as a whole.

If Elon Musk can run twitter with 80 percent less staff. How much bloat do you think Fossil actually has? There will be people resigning for sure. However at the end of the day. I don't see why it still makes sense to continue to operate a facility. Let it go. The old ways of business are dead.

Why have the extra overhead when you're already operating over the cloud. If collaboration is so important. Then make team meetings remote where you have collaboration. I know some teams already do this.

If a new startup watch company was to be fully SaaS and everyone worked remote besides their manufacturing, and distribution divisions. Then I would venture to say they would be highly more profitable.

Ms Truth spewing 'truth' when the real issue is that there are people who are in the office, but are also utter cr-p at the job they do. Some of the people that I've known as remote workers are out there having to either fix problems they've started or sit meetings at all hours of the day trying to talk these people out off of their id--tic ideas.

I bet that most of that money being lost is likely because we're driving customers away from not knowing who we are anymore. We are too busy talking to ourselves instead of to them.

Lots of corporate brow-nosers in these comments. The only people working part time or half assing it are those in the office. While the remote employees are schlepping away with 10 hour days that start at 6am because central employees have no concept of time zones. Those in the office play arts and crafts, sit around and gossip, have “team lunches” that take hours, spend company time commuting while they call into meetings while driving. Fossil has long promoted being a company of culture and work life balance. What happened to that?

They outsourced half the development teams to India. They want the remaining few people to come into the office for what? They won’t be collaborating, you fired their local coworkers.

Good resign then. You got accustomed to half assing it. Be happy that you only now have to work 4 days a week instead of 5 like everyone else.

This is absolutely a cost cutting strategy. The amount of people that will be resigning will be insane. There are some of us that do way better working at home as we do not have the constant interruption from people around us and noise distraction. There are those that just want to do our work and help turn the company around. I can understand creatives being brought into the office because the need of collaboration is there, but for those in positions like AP & Finance, where data and numbers need full attention, working remotely with video meetings are more than sufficient.

Of course they should have everyone coming in. It should be 5 days a week. No wonder we lose money when so many of you only work part time