I wonder when will SAP leadership realize that laying people off in droves is not a good business strategy? That it is something that provides a short-term bump in profits but ends up destroying the company in the end, which results in no profit at all for anybody, including them? Just wondering...
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obviously quality would go down if the Leadership is only slanted towards Sales and not Engineering.
These awards don't mean much - only to satisfy HR's ego and KPIs: https://www.greatplacetowork.ca/en/best-workplaces/best-workplaces-in-canada-2019-1000-employees
They should add a qualifier to this award "It is a great place to work but you won't last long ..."
People who still don't see how SAP works are in for a rude awakening.
It's the IBM playbook at SAP to mask negative growth.
Stock buybacks and acquisitions then layoffs to pay for the acquisition.
Every app SAP sold since 2011 was acquired not developed at SAP.
This way, you don't need any R&D spend at all.
Employees are operating costs like rent.
Who cares? Probably the people who bled and labored tirelessly for SAP because they thought they were a part of something special. Make no mistake, this is a turning point for SAP and it's reputation.
Think the leadership is only looking at recurring cost savings this round of layoffs would yield over the next set of years ... 950 million euros of cost savings each year would yield a couple of billions of dollars enough to cover a part of the recent acquisition that SAP made. Everyone knows that the layoffs were required to recover the cost of the recent acquisition ..
Anyway who cares ?