Goal: Decrease operating cost by reducing high salary people and not paying for hourly worker benefits as there are many store employees. Take away store employee holidays so the full timers quit. Huge savings on the benefits. Then only hire part... — read more 

When separating from WBA, market cap for the combined WBA was worth 8 billion. After they separated into individual companies like Walgreens, Boots, Alliance, Village MD etc, how much do you think just Walgreens by itself is worth? I don’t think it... — read more 

Let us get some idea about how many people got discouraged and have left the company. Only like the post if you left the company or are in process of leaving because of OPO closure.

We all know that the timeline to make a room OPO employees at Deerfield. Based on that what could possible time line look like for re-org and may be layoffs. Here is what I think it may look like: Identify who they will still stay with the company... — read more 

OPO employees having meeting with their manager seeming to gauge interest in leaving over the change. Are they making a list of who to let go due to “downsizing”?

So now the rumors are that any layoffs will be in February, once the impact of OPO closing and related resignations can be seen. Likely reorgs across the board. With so many resignations, will there even be layoffs? Thoughts?

Pretty hard to work in an environment like you do...wondering what is happening or going to happen. Sad

People have to feed their families by earning from their jobs at Walgreens. Please don’t cause panic here with Fake Info or things you think may happen. Post only if you know things are happening in next two weeks.

Dollar Tree is quietly taking many shuttered Walgreens and CVS locations. Once they have enough they will add pharmacy and Starbucks, Ulta or Sephora. Any poor strategic actions like making experienced people quit will just accelerate that make their... — read more 

This is coming from your friends across the highway in Deerfield (for now) at Essendant. Sycamore will destroy Walgreens and it will be torture before death. Watch out for yourself, try to get out, don't wait around for things to get better or any... — read more 

This company is going to collapse, and you need to prepare yourself for that. I left many years ago because I saw the writing on the wall. The recent sale to private equity will not save the company; it's the final death knell. Let me tell you a... — read more 

Is this likely how the layoffs will go down? Store level employees should be mostly fine. Most likely cut is BWC. High paid SMs might be a target down the line, but I think the focus will be DM and above in January. OP: @a2+1kd6vad2r

The Christmas season is coming to an end. The Valentines Aisle is to be set in full in less than 3 weeks. Who do you think, at store level, is going to be laid off first? High paid SMs, high tier SMs, Hourly or Salary ESMs, IS or ISL, lessen the... — read more 

AI can be very helpful if used correctly. Lot of talk that it can replace human workers. That is absolute garbage. AI helps you do your job better. I am choosing words carefully and not saying faster. Before AI, it was hard to achieve required... — read more 

Leaders in past did not consider location and noisy office of its head quarter was the problem in turning company around. My advice sell it and build a nice office convenient to all. Even if it can only house 55% capacity. We can take turns going to... — read more 

Ok, let me get this straight, Walgreens wants employees to donate to a fund to help under paid coworkers? Am I understanding this correctly? That can't be what it truly is. No company would expect its employees to make up the pay gap for them not... — read more 

Sycamore is set to replicate the approach they used with Staples for Walgreens, establishing a Global Capability Center (GCC) and relocating over 70% IT jobs to India. TCS will be supporting this transition. Good Luck to those who are still with... — read more 

Confirmed from someone in finance and HR. AI, moving many jobs to India, and new leadership found many teams doing similar work.

With all these leadership announcements, do we think these senior leaders (Manmohan Mahajan (Finance), Lanesha Minnix (legal), Beth Leonard (Corporate Affairs), Erick Rudiak (CISO), etc., to name a few of the most recent ones) all "decided to leave... — read more 

This is a theory. They implemented this new bag check policy the same week that DM's emphasized on the weekly conference call how SM's have to be working 8-5 (no matter your store hours) while also emphasizing how they're tracking bags checks full... — read more 

What am I missing?

We heard this week that there is a hiring freeze on field leaders - DM and up. It seems obviously we’re about to see a big realignment and layoffs. Wondering what everyone is hearing?

If you are planning on taking Walgreens private, wouldn't you want to pay as little as possible to do so? And, once you own the company, wouldn't you want to "improve" it easily to make as much money as you can when you sell it or have it go public... — read more 

Head of the asset protection department let go?

Have you or someone you know been disciplined for non compliance of RTO rules? Asking for a friend...

....to only spend at Walgreens! Even when they try to be generous, they're greedy. Lol!

This is becoming ridiculous.

Sycamore Partners doesn't care about you. This is only the beginning, and will only get worse. Sycamore Partners bought Staples in 2017. You should check out their layoff page if you want to see what kind of stress and uncertainty is going to... — read more 

Walgreens hourly workers set to suffer pay loss: report - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/walgreens-cut-paid-holiday-hourly-workers-christmas-thanksgiving-11040090

Just wondering if anyone has received the severance packet yet? HR told me that they’ll mail out after 11/3 but I haven’t got anything in my mailbox yet

They just leave. They silently pack up their value, their loyalty, their potential, and take it where they will be appreciated. They don't waste time arguing for respect or begging to be seen. If a workplace fails to recognize their worth, they... — read more 

Whoever wrote it thought they were really doing something.

Confirmed with a co-worker that came from a meeting just now that the CMO was cut today (Sashi M). Some people will say this is good, others will say this is bad. Simply calling it out as there was more layoffs today. Not sure if it was just him or... — read more 

I heard that all contractors currently have 11/30 as the last day for their contract and leadership hasn’t communicated with any of the contracting companies about extensions. Anyone know if this is management being slow to communicate, or if we’re... — read more 

Sycamore is mandating a four-day commute to Deerfield starting in February, which significantly increases out-of-pocket costs for employees, especially those who commuted to OPO previously. Yet, despite 3% inflation over the past year, salaries are... — read more 

Myself in multiple colleagues across the organization have had their performance review numbers brought down from 3.5s to 2.9. We have been advised that these decisions are being made from upper management. I’d like to also advise none of us in our... — read more 

What is our current support center staff number? What is the available number of seats in Deerfield? I'm OPO and can't get any answers.

Has anyone heard news of corp bonus payout timing and/or percentage?

I suspect most of us at OPO are looking for other jobs. How do you continue working while job hunting?

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