Sit back and watch the fall of Intel. Just be glad you left the sinking titanic.
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We shall see how these 90% do come next focal. All you need is one SSL4 and you will see the boot. Intel Kool Aid is very strong.
Think Intel is bad? GE (under Jack Welch) used to cull it's workforce by 10% every YEAR through their focal process, from which Intel and other companies borrowed.
From Google - "Jack Welch's vitality model has been described as a "20-70-10" system. The "top 20" percent of the workforce is most productive, and 70% (the "vital 70") work adequately. The other 10% ("bottom 10") are nonproducers and should be fired.[6][7] Rank-and-yank advocates credit Welch's rank-and-yank system with a 28-fold increase in earnings (and a 5-fold increase in revenue) at GE between 1981 and 2001."
Opponents would say there's no direct correlation to this process and the outcomes noted above. Maybe there is some correlation, but let's let the Harvard PhD's sort that one out.
One who did such is Rob Enderle - Cal State MBA grad; Tech Analyst, and Founder of the Eberle Group.
"Rob Enderle has argued that "No sane person could sustain the argument for forced ranking once it's applied it to products instead of people. Apply it to automobiles and make 20 percent or even 10 percent of any run unsatisfactory by policy, regardless of actual quality, and you'd immediately see that you were institutionalizing bad quality. With people, though, folks remain blind to the fact that forced ranking is walking example of confirmation bias."
Fast forward a bit, and we know that GE suspended Jack's Ranking and Yanking process 10 years ago. Microsoft, Accenture, Adobe and others have followed suit.
Their processes are probably being studied by Intel (which some parts have been adopted - for example - the dropping of "Ranking"), but a "Process" versus "Outcome" methodology is still being implemented, albeit slowly.
The question that still begs to be asked is would such a process have made the necessity of these layoffs (yes, necessity - Intel is way way too big to function properly), any less painful. Maybe.... maybe not. I'll check back in another couple of years....
Bye Bye Bye Intel
well, 95K employees plus another 10K H1-B's coming before the end of the year...
Sure the fall. Thanks little boy Intel still has 95000 employees and 55 billion a year.