Just wondering if Oprah, known for her Business Savvy, and empathy did anything financially to help WW with at least providing some kind temporarily support for employees... Did Oprah or Upper Management meet w/any employees to discuss possible... — read more 

The New York Times Mass Firing on Zoom Is Latest Sign of Weight Watchers Unrest https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/weight-watchers-firings-zoom.html or if paywalled see this: http://archive.is/Z7w6n The Sun ... — read more 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/weight-watchers-firings-zoom.html #NoEmpathy #ActionsSpeakLouderthanWords #WellnessThatdoesntWork

If you need to lose weight eat 500 calories less a day and you will lose one pound in a week( 3500 calories is about a pound) thats 4 pounds a month...slow ,safe ,inexpensive and very effective way to lose weight....find something to do that you ... — read more 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8348101/Weight-Watchers-fired-thousands-employees-five-minute-Zoom-call-staff-say.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8348101/Weight-Watchers-fired-thousands-employees-five-minute-Zoom-call-staff-say.html

In my 30+ year career in technology, leadership and HR, I have never seen such a poorly executed downsizing as this. I was not laid off but others who I worked closely with and admired greatly were. WW should be ashamed, deeply ashamed! What... — read more 

Did you get fired on the WW/weight watchers 4 min Zoom call. Where you a long term WW employee? Contact Julie Creswell - creswell@nytimes.com - Biz reporter at the NYT https://twitter.com/julie_creswell Reach out at... — read more 

I have been a WW Guide for a little over 3 years, and I am disgusted as to how this was handled. An email about a mandatory phone call which turned out to be a very short termination phone call. My TM read a script, muted us all, and ended it. That's... — read more 

WW has been going downhill since Mindy come in and the name changes - Guides, Studio, Wellness that Works (by the way that would be WtW - NOT WW). The idea's and the implementation of those idea's have all been faulty. The fact that (probably) not... — read more 

If anybody outside of the U.S. was also fired, did you receive any severance? I know Europe has better employee protections than we do so I'm wondering how it went there - if in fact people were cut in other places as well and not just here. I'm... — read more 

Ask OPRAH and Mindy Grossman how they timed the PR stunt of 2020. Senior Speech and Free Seminar role out the same week. But no AP press release about 4000 middle age woman fired. This should go down in history as the best disceptive Marketing... — read more 

When will our government require businesses to operate under the 7 Nolan Principals. The majority of the workers fired are woman over 50 and under paid during their employment. UNETHICAL firing and this company needs to be investigated for fraud to... — read more 

What, we don't fit the image the company is trying to project anymore so they use the pandemic as an excuse to get rid of us?

I thought people were entitled to receive a severance when being laid off, what happened to that? Is it legal to just fire people with no cause (because if you show somebody the door without severance that person is not being laid off, they are... — read more 

They should ask people who work in the field what our members what and need. People in a Board Room or in Corporate dont have a clue about our wonderful members and what drive business. The thousands that were fired could of answered that... — read more 

I was never an employee of Weight Watchers, but I have been on the Points, then Points Plus program for many years. I quit the meetings & online after they introduced Smart Points because it never worked for me, but I continued to follow the PP... — read more 

People are getting let go in the Peoria IL region because of Covid 19. My guess is it’s happening all over.

People who worked 7 meetings were terminated. All the Guides. Keep Zoom support. Studios will be opening with no Guides.

In my territory they seem to have fired those who had no workshops assigned to them or worked only one. And only guides- no coaches. Poor practice to do it in mass phone call.

I worked for WW for 10 years and retired last year. Our wonderful, competent TM was let go a few years into my tenure because she made the most money of the three TMs in our part of the state. We were the middle territory and they split us between... — read more 

Go to this link: @OP+14X2R6vq or copy/paste this https://www.thelayoff.com/t/14X2R6vq

They let go all the store front guides and coaches.

I’m am devastated! This was a job that I worked from home as a 24/7 chat coach and in the studio as a guide. I was also a coach although not active. I’ve been with the company 6 years. This money kept myself my husband and 2 kids (2 1/2... — read more 

Make sure Oprah knows how they are treating us. FB, tweets, insta... She has to know - this was a low blow for thousands of hard working employees. And it happen during the hardest times ever.

If you want to see what discussions recently had replies - click "ACTIVE" button (it's blue, next to "New") It will sort discussions based on which one had the most recent reply. I hope this helps.

Happened on a 2 minute zoom call. Was told to keep it quiet. Manager joked that there's no need for WW now that people will be starving with depression era unemployment. I was a little startled by this.

Hi all, I've recently heard about the frustrating and dehumanizing way that Weight Watchers has chosen to lay off employees from a friend (who told me her own story about the ways the layoffs were depersonalized and insulting). I'm a writer... — read more 

I was on the layoff conference call today as well… It was a very short (few min) audio-only Zoom video conference – all participants except the organizers were muted, so we were not allowed to speak up… The TM read a written statement – it was... — read more 

While I feel SO terrible about the recent lay-offs by WW, I can't imagine there is a GOOD way to find out you've been fired. But really, the culprit isn't WW; it is the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic crisis it has created world-wide.

I was let go from my job through a muted 4 minute mass zoom call. I’ve worked for this company for over 6 years. I get free membership for life, BFD! There was no humanity, no personal connection. The Territory Manager read a statement and hung up... — read more 

I no longer work at Weight Watchers but I read about the layoffs and had to check on what was going on. I can't believe that the only severance offered is a lifetime membership - are you kidding me? That's not a severance, that's an insult to the... — read more 

Thousands of us service providers were let go today! Our severance? Lifetime free WW membership. Big woop.

Info request - what's the total headcount at the co? How many people are employed at NYC?

Do you think there will be Weight Watchers Layoffs 2020? Any news or rumors?

Do we know if yesterday's layoffs are done? Can we expect even more today? And if that's the case, any ideas on what might get hit after tech and marketing?

Do you think there may be small/medium/large Weight Watchers Layoffs in 2019?

Last year all was good, now all of the sudden, people are complaining and there are rumors about layoffs here in NYC.

This is going to be a short note - I heard there will be layoffs in our corporate office in NYC.