To save 1.5B they would need to fire 15,000 people making on average $100,000 (total costs, including benefits and payroll taxes) each.
If those 15K people get fired over the course of many months, and on average they work 2/3 of the year, that would be 1B in the first year. But if their severance and unemployment get counted, then they might actually work 1/2 the year or less on average.
Whether they call it a WAS or WFR or redundancies or synergies, they've promised the street that there are going to be many thousands of us FIRED and they are going to have to start soon.
Posted originally @M0XZwa3-3lef