Layoffs are coming, Expect the announcement this week.
Pace acquisition complete, they have made their selections and getting ready to make us 'lean and clean'. Hopefully Obama's economy is ready for the influx of available engineers.
Say goodbye to your bonus this year, maybe the severance will make up for it, best of luck.
I know we are all angry and disappointed at how this has turned out, But remember the main thing: this business of set-top boxes is fast going down the tube - very very fast!. We have all have to prepare for the next stage and it is going to be hard for people who have spent their lives in this (like those in Horsham)
What corporate communication crap? There has not been any at all, not a single email. My inbox has been shockingly quiet all week and the office feels like a ghost town. Nobody seems to be doing much of anything other than chatting quietly in the hallways and updating resumes. Morale is in the dumps and deteriorating further, there is no leadership presence and no communication. With so many key people gone and no list of WHO is gone at our location or other sites and who is expected to step into those empty responsibilities everything has ground to a virtual standstill. I have been through other layoffs both at Arris and other companies and this one reaches levels of incompetence I have never before experienced.
Around 30 in Bangalore ARRIS
Any count from PACE Bangalore ?
Rough numbers:
530 in US
100 in Isreal
55 in Argentina
For a total of 685.
If you believe the 800 total world wide, there's still another 115 to be notified.
I believe (guessing) UK offices will majority of this remaining number.
Can someone post/point to the disclosure sheet? Also how many have went of the 800 so far? And currently im working on a project due for deployment 2017 do you think they will just get rid of me and my team?
It is shocking that the only info we are getting is from this site. If this is how Arris normally operate, expect many of the best people to resign over the coming months. Feel very sorry for people in all locations.
10,000 views and such a good discussion, a million times better than the corporate communication crap they serve us every day
Arris is notorious for gobbling up competitors, extracting anything they can squeeze a profit out of and then spitting out the carcass. They will not be content until they own 100% of the market. This sort of behaviour has become standard business practice. Started largely in America but it has spread.
I too have worked for pace for a long time and it's sad that now the company is being ran into the ground. Its a sad world we live in where Arris mgmt go unpunished for such vile acts
Quote "Also find it strange how both CEO and Director buy a ton of shares then fire people to make prices soar. Is this not illegal in all countries Arris operate in?"
A significant number of British shareholder still have not received new Arris shares in exchange for Pace stock, 2 months after the merger. During this time certain Arris execs (formerly of Pace) sold shares and made $millions.
Certainly something is terribly wrong, but getting the regulators involved is nigh on impossible. The behaviour of the top level execs at Arris is borderline criminal, certainly immoral and will probably go unpunished.
If I can get the FCA and SEC to investigate Arris then I will. A great British company has been wrecked, and it's the wrong people who will find themselves jobless.
Some of the stuff I've read about Arris management turns my stomach, and I worked with scum bags at Pace for long enough to have grown used to that sort of behaviour.
I am sick of this stress. Current Pace Employee with bills to pay. Does anyone know where is being hit? What departments? How long is notice? Also find it strange how both CEO and Director buy a ton of shares then fire people to make prices soar. Is this not illegal in all countries Arris operate in?
Hey arris, how about some internal communication? Did you accidentally lay off the person who is supposed to coordinate the layoffs?!
Yes and I know several more key people are making plans to leave. So many good folks gone and some really incompetent asshats still there. Arris has seriously bungled this, it may be the beginning of the end.
Where did you find the disclosure sheet?
If the disclosure sheet is correct, 47% in Boca, two groups wacked plus some of the sw developers.
Good luck to all.
Pace is not in charge or Influencing any of the actions, at least from what I can tell it is above the SVP level and purely a cost reduction. High cost individuals are wacked.
The people who are left have some real challenges ahead of them, everyone of our customers are now extremely upset, this is not going well. The key people for key products for key customers are no longer available to develop or support. Some projects are almost at the finish line and the key people have been wacked. It's like the executives want this to fail.
Obvious the executive team is clueless and of course will be rewarded heavily for messing up a great company.
All.the sites I have talked to are in total chaos and there is no leadership, worst execution I have ever seen and I've been through several of these already. The developers are the last to go, first set is the support staff, accounting, hr, finance and so forth. These areas have not been touched.
More layoffs to come as projects close. My prediction is small development sites close in the summer another big RIF near the end of the FY2016.
The bell weather will be the executives cash out the stock.
This PACE merger was for tax inversion only, thank your favorite political advocates, I really think this would have gone a different way if tax inversion was not available.
I do not envy the ex-Pace people. Arris management is notoriously backward and dysfunctional. Groups are given impossible goals with insufficient resources and political grappling between middle management at different locations slows progress to a crawl. When a person resigns their position is not reopened and hiring someone to replace them is incredibly difficult, approval has to go all the way up to the CEO. How insane is that? Maybe it made sense when Arris had 200 employees but they are close to 7,000 now. To make it worse, there is a culture of information hoarding, everyone knows the company views employees as an expense rather than an asset so people passive-aggressively resist sharing information others need to do their job in attempt to preserve their own positions. Get ready for occasional all hands meetings where executives spend an hour droning on about dull financial aspects and repeat the same old message "we're doing great and earning profits in a difficult economy but we need to earn more profits and take more market share while lowering costs."
Translation: Work harder serfs, and you'll just have to find a way to take on the work of the people we're going to fire. Shareholders blah blah synergy blah blah align goals and collaborate with customer focus blah blah blah.
The lack of comms. from both ex-Pace and Arris management is quite extraordinary. The majority of information we have is coming from this site.
If it is indeed true that the Pace guys are getting a much lower payoff than the Arris guys then I dread to think how low morale is going to go among the remaining ex-Pace staff. Some of us had high hopes for the takeover, things have not got off to a good start and it's going to take some special leadership to turn things round. Where that leadership will come from I'm not sure
Pace is not taking over, maybe someone with a brain in arris has worked out how Pace consistently beat mot up over the years. It is very regrettable that some good people have gone, but wouldn't it have happened anyway due to arris' poor q4 results?
roughly 15-20% (147) of Horsham was laid off on Monday
If Arris purchased Pace, why does it seem that Pace is taking over/running the show
Same, I'm still here but I'm not sure whether I should be thankful for that or not. Part of me thinks it is only delaying the inevitable and staying around is just going to mean a repeat of all the stress and pain a few months from now. We lost so many key people that there is no possible way to succeed with the scheduled releases, we were already woefully short on resources. I cannot bring myself to ask any favors from those who's last day is tomorrow, many of them had poured their life into being part of the team for a decade or more.
@FWuC3rL-brmy I would just pack up, leave, and let them figure it out. I'm still around and could use some info from people leaving, but I won't do that to them. They should leave in peace after being blind-sided. I'll figure it out later...
Yes not a single email announcement, just lots of hushed whispering in the hallways. I doubt anyone is getting much of any work done, I know I'm not, I'm still in shock at how the situation unfolded and wondering what will come next. I also can hardly believe they gave people notice they were being let go and then expected them to come into work and be productive for the rest of the week. Why would anyone do that? What is in it for you? That's like doing favors for your ex during a breakup, you're not going to get anything in return. Call in sick and take the time to update your resume.
Lots of public commentary about people being let go but not a single piece of internal communication to employees about what the plan was/is, timescales for that plan or comms when people have been let go. We couldnt be more in the dark - Lots of chinese whispering though - You can literally feel the morale decreasing by the day.
I am supposed to go over my work today with those who will be taking over my duties. I don't feel like it. Why should care? There is no way they will be able to do what I did. They may be able to get by but they will not be able to provide the quality of info that I provide. Yet,the good soul in me says to do it because it is the right thing...
Moto to Google Google to Arris Arris buying PACE, I am so sure it is not the end.
Open your "Living Arris" book to page 2-3. Uncle Bob is on page 2, now turn your attention to the bottom of page three and the quote "We're just getting started". How prophetic………..
3 from Philadelphia Pace office.
Córdoba-Argentina development center was completely closed. I remember when we were Motorola and almost 250 employees were working here, now this center ended up having just 50 people, all of them laid off last Monday, so sad.
God luck to everyone.
Bye.
Test automation teams in Beaverton and Kirkland were wiped out completely. They invested in expensive hardware years ago but never devoted enough resources to make it effective. There have been situations more times than I can count where insufficient resources were allocated for projects to succeed, causing schedules to slip or projects to fail entirely. Employee growth normally involves taking on more and more responsibilities without ever handing anything off because there is nobody to hand it off to. When somebody leaves, their position is not automatically re-opened and getting approval to hire new engineers is like pulling teeth so everyone else is expected to take up the slack no matter how busy they already are. Arris is notoriously penny wise and pound foolish, they are so CHEAP that they miss opportunities for profit. Every communication from the executives involved them crowing about increasing productivity and lowering costs to better serve the shareholders. It's unfortunate they didn't focus first on making top notch products and treating employees as assets rather than expenses, letting profits follow.
Boca teams were destroyed on 22nd; entire departments were wiped out. Long term Pace software, Hardware and QA folks who were key to some large accounts were let go.
No news here in Saltaire yet - we do feel like we are being kept in the dark. I can only assume it's because of UK employment law requiring a 'consultation period' once a certain number of redundancies are announced, so they have to get all the ducks in a row before an announcement.
my brainwash bible was called Living Arris too. i never heard of the other one, but would anyone be surprised if there was multiple abominations?
There is nothing info of Hangzhou.What will be happen?
I dug out my copy of that book, it's actually called "Living Arris" and they gave out silly Quality badges. Ironically the spine of the book is printed upside down, quality indeed. What a joke.
OMG - that stupid orange book! What crap...
Santa Clara, CA lost 19 out of 50 employees.
I agree with the earlier comments about that stupid orange book. That and everything else management did seemed less than genuine.
Yeah, that ridiculous book "The people of Arris" . Such an expense to send that out along with the crappy mechanic shirts sent to some of the field folks yet little or no training budget for the folks that do the work.
The CEO and his cronies are out of their minds. Anyone remember that orange hardback book "The people of Arris" that was given out with some fanfair a while back? It was nothing but a circle jerk of executives patting each other in the back. I left not long after that but still keep in touch. I remember the emails sent by the CEO that were filled with so many buzzwords and euphemisms I couldn't read them with a straight face.
Sorry to hear about Horsham. In addition to losing good people in the RIFs, some really good people have left there following past RIFs (I'm sure people in most locations are updating resumes). As far as management goes, Lowell is the same. Upper management rewards their friends/drinking buddies (including those who've managed to kill product lines and are on track to do the same again) and whacks others. It boggles the mind.