So is there a real list?
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Who creates this list? is it HR or is it the managers and supervisors? Who has the final say in who stays and who goes?
I go out and smoke at 420 every single day but it ain't cigs. Get baked then surf the web until I leave.
What kind of sick big brother company makes people badge out?!?
Dear @OdwiDtu-asgt. Really blame the smokers???? I am not a smoker and find this to be ridiculous. The problem is that we hire too many Executives in Marketing, Delivery and Development lately that knew nothing of our industry, were paid huge sign in bonus, made horrible decisions, over committed things to get carrier signatures and then left the company. Sad part that those most who are responsible got reward have left!!!!!
Sabre spent how much money sending people around twice a day to get stats on who sat where in bldg A and B? Maybe do the same thing with the smokers. Monitor who goes out and how often and for how long. I see some of the same people out there all the time no matter when I cross from bldg to bldg.
Hurry before HR gets it deleted
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It sounds like the current target is closer to 15%. Obviously sales have pretty much stopped and the stock price has sunk, so unless the new leaders can generate some confidence in the market and make some sales, lots more cuts to come. At this pace, Sabre could be a takeover target for Farelogix...
In 2001 Sabre moved 45% of its 10,000 heads to EDS and AA. Over the next few years 90% of those were laid off. Over the next few years Sabre also laid off many of the heads they kept. Sabre has now grown back to a similar size. A 25% cut is possible. The list exists.
Let's hope they target some of the Delivery folks in AS who like to spend their days taking cigarette breaks every hour then return to their desks to shop online for hours. And we won't even talk about their 'work at home' ethics that 'might' include two hours of actual productivity at best.
So yes, there is much deadwood that can be deleted without truly impacting the overall service and support delivery of Sabre.
Not sure that it will be 25% that's a huge number but who knows. I"m sure there will be a big one after Latam integration, that's the last big thing to do. Once that's done I bet at LEAST 25% of AS will be gone. 2 more rinky dink airlines after that then NOTHING but defect resolution and release testing. It doesn't take 850 people to do that.
The 27% layoff cannot be 27% of the entire company because that is like 2300 people. If that layoff is most for ( like14%) expensive DFW people then that would mean to be lay off about half the entire of DFW peoples.
If that is plan then it is game over for Sabre very simple. If farmer prune that much from trunk of a tree he be pruning off many other green branches also and it will kill the entire tree. MVD, KRK, BLR cannot function without domain knowledge of DFW. There will not be enough domain knowledge left for Sabre to function for more than a few months and Sabre will crumble and die.
If this really is plan then sounds like the Stephen Elop style Nokia Trojan Horse has infiltrated Sabre at the top like he was rumoured to have done for MS. If so is Sabre being set up for an Amadeus buyout like how MS bought Nokia once it was worthless?
Even lay off 27% of DFW will be catastrophy. Are 600 people dead wood in DFW? There is dead wood but there is also much domain knowledge and cannot be hired, not in DFW and not anywhere else in the world for any amount of money, once they gone they gone. You cannot move that domain knowledge to a cheap shore in 6 months of 12 months. There are also teams that do not have enough people and are already refuse new work and can not get the work they have done now. When Sabre can not support the customer they will leave.
This can not be true.
Yes the list exists - and has been there since last August when the first RIF was contemplated. It was used again in January when that RIF occurred. And yes, that's why everyone is behind closed doors - to update the list yet again. Of course that's why hiring has come to a dreadful trickle.
There will be 2 different RIF's - not just the one at the end of July. The first RIF will effect mostly the non-dev people. Everyone within Corp functions as well as P&T, AS and TN that don't code or sell are under scrutiny.
P&T just made everyone self-rate themselves so that they can build the stacked-rank list 1-to-n. Managers to verify. There is talk of completely re-designing P&T, so expect a major shake-up later in the year - RIF probably in Oct. Expect that this will drastically reduce the number of SVP's, VP's and Directors - which realistically may be a good thing. Many of the real developers will move from one P&T group to another - still a lot of work to do - but also allows for moving much of the product development off-shore. This will shrink the teams in Southlake where it's most expensive.
The list has been in play since before the last layoff. It is a conbo of the dpms and then a 1-n for each group. It is always in play. That is why some who have historically always been exceeding exepctations now are just satisfactory is because mgmt had to go an additional step and compare the best from each group and then rank those. So there is a 1-n (list)....
I don't think it's possible to reduce number of employees by 25%. That would be a suicide for the company. I think that (of this is not a fake news) this is a number of people that will be affected by some structure changes. Some may be laid off, but others will be moved under other organization and will have different VP. Firing so many people would cause a dramatic consequences. And that's a risk nobody will take....
I can guarantee, that such list exists for some weeks.
During the contractors layoff in Oct/Nov 2016 such a list was being prepared for almost two months. I'm pretty sure, that directors (maybe even managers) now have an info who will be fired during incoming turn.
How on earth can you lose 25% of your employees without making a list? Of course there's a list, probably several across the different business units and a consolidated one in Finance so they can calculate the savings and the cost of payouts. Is it a list that someone is likely to share on here? No, don't think so.
No way... Could not exist
Nope it does not exist