I am understanding that there will be a staff reduction in February of 2017 and that managers are preparing for it and ranking employees. What is very bad about this is that the layoff would occur before the bonus payouts in march 2017. About how many? Not sure but indications are that this time it would include a significant number of mid level managers.
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2glxm has forecasted correctly, results are so bad SAP has announced trimming of 4.5% of total headcount. More consolidation ahead. I hope they get rid of the useless mid level managers who are only good at kissing ass
Q12019 another lay-off. Except this time they decide to announce it to alleviate some of the negative news from the poor annual results
I hope they will trim the middle layer
There will be more cuts in Q3 if results don't improve
The layoffs are happening in many areas. Customer facing roles and some technical staff. Some very KEY PLAYERS are now scrambling for other SAP internal job postings but most are just out!
It's kinda earily like the days before the fall of WCOM.
There is bleeding in almost every group - at least in the US.
Oracle transformation is typically 6-18 months ahead of SAP, I won't be surprised if we have the same type of transformation as Oracle down the road
APJ - started one week before SAPPHIRE
15_20% globally cut.
Germany excluded - for now (expect next year due to the 1 year workers council legislation bindings)
Japan - not part of cull due to 'growth'
China - bigger cut (30-40%) started this week
NA - cut before and during Sapphire.
SAP acquired many companies. So the layoffs also depend on the "department" that you're working on inside SAP. So far we haven't seen many layoffs this year.
support and maintenance
which division is affected?
There is a major meltdown on Oracle's layoff board with some threads having 20K views or more - they are cutting deep, on both Oracle Applications side (ERP) as well as everything else...
See it here https://www.thelayoff.com/t/N2UeFdk or go to the thread directly here @N2UeFdk
it's happening now...
Agree -- too many middle management.
Then it's best to get rid of those that are neither building great products for SAP or in front of the customers... I am talking about the middle FAT layer.
Restructuring happens every year in Q1 and is over by the tmie SAPphire takes place
Every company has its top performers and bottom dwellers
Sometimes the kindest thing is to show people the way out rather than keeping them spinning in a low production mode
only the glittery marketing and salesy business development folks are left, mate
the product development and content anchor men are gone
i wonder how long it will take for the financial numbers to catch with this reality
some layoffs in APJ as well
I heard this took place in Palo Alto with P&I. Anyone know how many?
Is this pure unsubstantiated rumor?
If you were an employee on January 1, you're still entitled to your bonus payout.
SAP just released a strong 2016 financial result and a higher performance forecasting in 2017. I think organization restructure is expected as usual but doesn't mean layoff
SAP has too many managers. SAP need visionary leaders and transformative executors, not managers.
Will the payout be the same as in 2015?