I wish that the leadership would have done more to address the impact this week would have on productivity and emotional status. Work is not getting done, and any meetings, nobody speaks about any of it. Yet the elephant in the room is crushing morale and the ability to function. I can't believe meetings are even being conducted this week. Management absolutely needed to pro-actively manage all aspects of the impact of this huge downsizing. I would like to see a plan mapped out for those employees not laid off that communicates the impacts across all the orgs (not by name, but by role), and a strategy for how the work is going to get done and mitigation plans in place to realign and re-prioritize the work. There has been no communication internally like that. It's an eerie silence that is very unhealthy for all. Those leaving feel awful, those remaining feel horrible, and no one can talk about it in open forums. We have to log into this one to do it. What a huge miss on Intel's part. I hope they can collect and analyze the postings this board has facilitated over the past week and incorporate into the process in the future to help maintain integrity and respect in the midst of corporate re-orgs and downsizing. This isn't their first rodeo, this is a very complex system that impacts a global portfolio. It would be easier for the employees to de-personalize the outcome if they were treated with more dignity and not feeling undermined.
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My guess is that this year's non-performance will show up on next year's focal review thereby dragging down those of us who remain. Personally I think I am done with this company, even if I am not affected by restructuring.
"blue koolaid" thats a good one
we have lost so many quality folks in mmdc. some because manager screwed them. but others because they were level 7 too long (or level 8 or 9). I have never felt so demoralized, so discouraged about the company I work for. I have been through layoffs before, but never one where I saw key individuals, who contributed nights and weekends for years...just walked out the door. I have been offered the erp. I will take it. Because next year it may be an ISP. I was proud to work for DEC and Intel when they bought us. Not now.
Best thing to do is find another job otherwise you may get impacted next year.I am not trying to be sarcastic just the truth.
@OP- excellent post!! Those of us left here are seriously traumatized by all of it. And now to find out we absorb the work of our peers who were walked out with zero pass down. That is just plain stupid on Intel's part!!
@H75ecOh-nlt You have a board of directors that does not understand the business nor do they have any legitimate vision to ensure the company prospers (public information). Looking at all the bitterness on this site, I question how many people utilized every proxy vote opportunity to reject the board itself and all of their desires. Obviously not enough. This is what happens when the actual workforce does nothing to band together (i.e. tech only meetings, unionization, etc.). Americans do this to themselves.
kmj: "Those who are let go usually have a good reason for being in their position. Just because they cry doesn't mean there isn't another side to the story."
That's an amazingly insensitive and ignorant way of looking at. kmj is drinking heavily from the Blue Koolaid. Yes, there were "reasons" why people let go. But as somebody else pointed out in some case they had changed managers so their old manager gave them an SSL simply because they had to meet a distribution. Or they were ranked against people who did an entirely different job from them and worked on more prominent projects. Or the people managing the rank group didn't even understand why job the person did or the value it brought. Or simply their manager just didn't like them and decided to reward their buddies instead. I've seen all of these things happen in my time at Intel - repeatedly. They are all symptoms of a highly dysfunctional and broke performance management system; for a while we at least knew what the rules were, but now it seems they change every year at the whim of the CEO. Yes, lots of reasons but few of them were good ones.
i do accept that businesses (and Intel is a business) need to regroup and consolidate and yes lay off very few years - but we did that every 2 years or so since 2000 - and why after every layoff don't things get better? Productivity goes down because work is handed off to the survivors in addition to the job they were hired for. No work actually goes away - thats a management issue. 200 layoffs is a correction, 12,000 layoffs are a sign of systemic bad management from the ground up to the CIO. They are not addressing the elephant in the room: all these layoffs are for naught unless they overhaul the upper management system - you'll see when 3-4 years from now headcount is back where it was today. Just so you know, AMD is still our competitor and they have LESS employees that we are laying off....
non Intel person here... man I feel for y'all. I really do.
I hate Intel's bordering or actually illegal market share business methods. Now you know what AMD people feel like, having been at the other end of Intel's market share domination strategy "Intel Inside or No Cash Besides"
However, we all feel for you Blue heads nonetheless. Good luck, get outta there while you can .
And if you get out, please don't bring Intel attitudes with you. Outside of Oregon or Santa Clara, people don't give a F about Intel x86. We really don't. It's like a generic motor in our PCs, nothing else.
I'm a "non-impacted" Intel employee. Here is what it has been like this week. People randomly getting walked out of the building, escorted by HR during business hours, we cannot say goodbye, they do not pass info, and they are leaving pretty much everything on their desks never to return again. I can't focus, I know I'm safe, but so many of my peers, friends and managers are leaving due to VSP, ERM or worst case scenario ISP. I'm starting to feel guilty for still having a job and scared for what it's going to be like moving forward. I've postponed all of my work because much it relies on sites and people. I joined a weekly (project team) meeting to find only one person other than myself remaining (everyone else was ISP)...that person got the email about his site closing as we were talking. Employees that I respected and viewed as high contributors are getting ISPs...they changed managers mid-year and their old manager did their focal (successful, but level 4 stock). I no longer have a manager and have not gotten word on how we are going to function now that we have lost 1/3 of our team...are we hiring? taking relos? just waiting? No passing of duties, disgruntled employees not telling us passwords because their HR meeting is in an hour. I'm calling the managers of the people that got let go asking them who will be doing the work or if we should just wait for an update (then worry about how not finishing this project will contribute to me getting a level 4-5 stock at my next focal...and we all know what that means). Then...drag myself out of the office feeling like I went to war (and lost) only to find the media camped outside, like vultures feeding off of the carcasses. So yes...to say the least, they need a "survivors" open forum.
Everyone in my dept is working hard. No one was given ISP. In fact on my floor everyone is working business as usual. We are committed to the company and our jobs. It's a contract.
Those who are let go usually have a good reason for being in their position. Just because they cry doesn't mean there isn't another side to the story.
Post ID: @H75ecOh-bup: Your statement about Corps over 100K don't operate that way, that is a fair statement. I understand the complexity with getting through such a large downsizing quickly and do believe the CEO was transparent in sharing the strategy from the beginning. The area I think that could have been given a little more attention may have actually helped with the damage control that is going to have to follow as a result of the disgruntled employees laid off, as well as the significant reduction in morale for those remaining. I do think it's possible to accomplish a positive outcome with something so negatively impacting of the people affected. Even something as simple as an internal forum like this one, where people can ask questions and share information real time. It's the silence and unknown that gets most. At the end of the day, so many people were actually really satisfied with how well the Co took care of them as part of the separation package. And for the people left attempting to work this week, productivity is non-existant, and this may have been an excellent week to suggest training classes be done, focus groups meet or anything that gets people together and talking. Conducting regular meetings where half your team has now been laid off, yet you don't find out about it until the middle of a meeting, is just a set up to propagate even more angst. And I just think talking about the elephant in the room would help all involved be productive, supportive and engaged during such a difficult transition. Whether you are escorted out or not.
The number of emails I get from technical work-groups (cannot divulge what they are) have drastically reduced in the last two days - I usually get a couple of them per day. Intel employees are paying the price for mistakes made by executive and management teams. And the actions are unfortunately necessary for long term survival and success of the company. But it is only natural that the morale of employees take a big hit.
CEO announced notifications would be this week, except in countries where not legal to go that fast. There is a specific reason why going fast is important, to get through the limbo.
The plan is to reset to a new strategy and cut 12,000 people. How work gets done will depend if your work is cancelled or not.
Companies with 100k employees don't orchestrate like you suggest.
For impacted employees like me, not having the ability to hand off work or deliverables, especially to external organizations, is really bad. It reflects poorly on Intel but also on the individuals involved.
The indiscriminate nature of the cuts is spreading the productivity loss across the organization and not just to the parts of the business that are being de-prioritized
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I wish that the leadership would have done more to address the impact this week would have on productivity and emotional status. Work is not getting done, and any meetings, nobody speaks about any of it.
Yet the elephant in the room is crushing morale and the ability to function. I can't believe meetings are even being conducted this week. Management absolutely needed to pro-actively manage all aspects of the impact of this huge downsizing. I would like to see a plan mapped out for those employees not laid off that communicates the impacts across all the orgs (not by name, but by role), and a strategy for how the work is going to get done and mitigation plans in place to realign and re-prioritize the work.
There has been no communication internally like that. It's an eerie silence that is very unhealthy for all. Those leaving feel awful, those remaining feel horrible, and no one can talk about it in open forums. We have to log into this one to do it. What a huge miss on Intel's part. I hope they can collect and analyze the postings this board has facilitated over the past week and incorporate into the process in the future to help maintain integrity and respect in the midst of corporate re-orgs and downsizing. This isn't their first rodeo, this is a very complex system that impacts a global portfolio. It would be easier for the employees to de-personalize the outcome if they were treated with more dignity and not feeling undermined.