CIO seems further and further from reality
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Making room for more directors. Still not top heavy enough. To align with the rest of Seagate, you need 7+ layers of management. For example, you would have say 2 engineers working in a functional department actually producing value, then a manager, Sr. manager, director, executive director, VP, COO, and then CEO. See, then you have completely duplicate management structures for HDD, SSD, and Systems, because that's all too specialized. For IT, I'm sure it can silos can be formed to pack even more complete management chains in to get down to 2:1 non-manager to employee ideal targets. If it goes higher than 2:1, simply lay off the lower level people and/or hire more managers at the same time.
Pune s---s !
With dim long-term prospects, everything have to be trim.
From the CIO Update today:
"... we have very closely reviewed our future management, skills and location requirements. As a result, one of the actions we have taken yesterday was a targeted, reduction in force (“RIF”) across the U.S., Asia and EMEA regions... "
Hmmm - No cuts in India!
Yes another 10% cut of IT staff.
None of his direct report staff of 12 VP, Sr Directors and Directors were not impacted.
How many directors or above do we need in IT?
The correct answer is 62! That's 1 director for every 16 IT staff.
How can IT support any Seagate business group/partner when entire teams are eliminated?
Guess it's through the 20 open IT job postings. Anyone RIFed want to move to Pune?
Hahaha
Soooo true