Thread regarding Fidelity Investments layoffs

Laying off amid record profits

This is what absolutely infuriates me. Fidelity is laying off people while profits are skyrocketing. Why? How can this be anything else but pure greed?

Fidelity Investments pulled in $5.3 billion in operating income in 2017, a record for the company and a 54 percent increase over the previous year, according to its annual report published Tuesday.

The record profits came in a year in which more than 1,500 senior employees took voluntary buyout offers from the firm, and hundreds more were involuntary laid off

https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2018/02/27/in-year-of-buyouts-and-layoffs-fidelity-s-profits.html

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Post ID: @OP+RWSJ6Tz

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Boston HQ cafe is already so crowded at lunch. Great logical thinking in shoving more people there. Fidelity leaders - all they are good for is scratching each others back, trying to get a few drops from the Johnson family teat. This is 'has been' place - get out and get a hold of your career.

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Post ID: @zooa+RWSJ6Tz

Getting up to Boston from RI is a nightmare hour and a half time. If you drive it's gas, miles on car and parking, else your driving to a rail stop + parking, mbcr pass. The commute really starts to beat on you, and traffic into Boston had gotten worse past year.

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Post ID: @wwzb+RWSJ6Tz

The hundreds of folks who refuse to put up with the “PI Transformation” are leaving as fast as they can with the package and their knowledge and years of experience. Those left want to just hang on and collect their paycheck.

I’ve heard people don’t want to co-locate and are looking to get around the mandate. Good luck, PI doesn’t care and will cut you loose. It’s all about dollars and numbers.

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Post ID: @viou+RWSJ6Tz

There are rumblings of another RIF in may/june. Hundreds of PI folks have been asked to move to Boston. Once those who reject the offer (of $5000) and take the severance, there will be another round of clean-up with those left. I wonder how many people will take the generous severance.

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Post ID: @uriq+RWSJ6Tz

Save your money. drive your car 1/2 million miles or til it turns to dust. don't buy anything you don't need. pay off your mortgage. you never know what is just right around the corner. good luck.

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Post ID: @rrlu+RWSJ6Tz

Hundreds weren't laid off. Thousands were. I was out 12/31 and there was another RIF in Feb.

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Post ID: @lopj+RWSJ6Tz

Any recent layoffs? Seems to be quite recently.

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Post ID: @9qxp+RWSJ6Tz

that's what i've always said....does Abby need another billion??

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Post ID: @4omm+RWSJ6Tz

Usually private companies have no incentive to financially engineer anything.

Fidelity is making money hand over fist, and with the Trump tax plan they will make even more.

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Post ID: @4vmk+RWSJ6Tz

"Record profits" is a matter of opinion.

Shady accounting practices, financial engineering, these are how companies announce record profits, yet are laying people off. It's all a big con, where the goal is to make it seem as if everything is awesome, when it's not.

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Post ID: @dsg+RWSJ6Tz

The paragraph under the quote was also supposed to be a quote, not sure what happened there.

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