The entire thing is a farce. It's a cost cutting measure, no matter how they try to spin it. If they truly were strategic instead of being top down numbers, they wouldn't have laid off a mere 6 people spread across a variety of teams in CoE North America.
There will be more layoffs in the US likely this or next week as Voluntary Early Retirement offers were due in by today, so they'll know how many didn't accept and then they'll move on to involuntary layoffs. Then there's the time to extend these offers in other countries (including in Germany where voluntary layoffs only and either the person or their manager can reject), then to hit the expected numbers they'll have to layoff more in other regions.
Spot on. Thought that @Y4Altxi-4zox was 100% on point.