I'm starting to hope not, but you never know...
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Bigger layoffs every 6 months, for last 5 years or so but now they are doing smaller layoffs targeting directors it seems in between the larger 6 month layoffs. Looks like next big one is Feb or March.
No more layoffs for the foreseeable future. Hard drives are going to crush SSDs. SSDs don't have spinny parts, and hence lack gyroscopic stability. This makes data stored on them unstable. Alas poor solid state, I knew ye well.
confirm lah! No layoff how to be "more profitable"
The mid year bonus will probably be the last one we get for years I think. HDD TAM will drop 30%-50% in 3 years time. Seagate you see now is totally unsustainable in the future. Indiscriminate firings with no thought or plan are quick trigger pulls used in the past without hesitation. Losing money for a while is not even an option because the company is debt laden. Nobody is going to lend Seagate cheap money.
Seagate has nothing that WD needs. Can't see a single reason for a merger. As to the original point of the post, there will continue to be layoffs as Seagate shrinks to remain profitable. Now that there appears to be major snags in areal density growth, the whole game is to cut costs to the bone.
Seagate will merge with WD. The SSD business and others will be spun off. Eventually the consumer market will die and the inexpensive RAID market will reach a steady state. Only then will the layoffs stop, like the last company producing Betamax tapes, soldiering on decades after the world has forgotten.
You do know. We all know. As long as the sun rises, Seagate will have layoffs.
The answer will always be yes.