Will there be performance layoffs this year? Yes BK confirmed multiple times that performance will be strictly enforced.
Will there be site closures this year? Yes Intel knows it has too many sites still.
Will projects be terminated? Yes any good business does this.
Call these steps what you want. Only difference it will be done by stealth this year.
Those with IR will be gone, look around bit 2-4% will be gone.
If you are the laggard when ranked with your peers you are gone.
Won't matter you are good team player or how hard you work. All about during that closed door ranking with your SLM and FLMs their preception.
Every groups always meets distribution for IR and SL4 and SL5.
So figure a silient 2-7% are gone in the next couple weeks.
GPTW
Bureaucracy or it, there is no act as far you know, right?
thats called bureaucracy
But none of those called act. I have never heard of act in 2017