#layoffs

Synovus will ruin Pinnacle IMO. Sorry for anyone that works there.

Opened LinkedIn on this Monday morning to find lots of resignation announcements. What’s going on?

A Stop & Shop store is slated for closure, a development that will result in job losses for its employees. This incident forms part of broader business news originating from Connecticut. The headline indicates that staff at the affected supermarket will be impacted by this decision. While the specific number of layoffs is not provided, store closures inherently lead to significant employment changes. The news report does not specify the particular city in Connecticut where this Stop & Shop location is situated.

The next round of the great Insight purge is among us.... Sharpen up those resumes.. While you are planning some NY revelry, someone else is plotting your demise. Lists submitted. The level of incompetence at this place is astounding. Services business is suffering greatly, fools only think that they can make this work. Can't compete against Deloitte or Accenture, CDW is in dismay. Don't do ERP or CRM implementations (hey KrustyBurger what's up with that? Thought that you were G Money Magic?), just playing around with AI like some kids at the school yard. Eclipsed by a bunch of other more nimble and spot on competitors. Does not matter how many ex-Cisco, ex-IBM'ers, ex-CAP fools are hired at 4x what you make. Let's anoint more CTO's and CISO's around this ghost town. Tumbling like tumble weed in the desert.

The technology sector has entered a defining era of “The Great Recalibration” in 2025. While the total volume is slightly lower than the 2024 peak, the nature of these cuts is far more strategic.

https://www.sightsinplus.com/news/layoffs/tech-giants-google-amazon-and-others-layoff-120000-in-2025

After eight months, I'm still looking for a job. I had a few promising interviews just to get ghosted in the end. I'm lucky because I have plenty of savings to be okay for at least another year, but I know so many folks who are not so lucky. These layoffs destroyed so many lives.

Having a job at DXC where I haven’t gotten a raise in four years effectively means that I’ve been taking a pay cut each year due to inflation, and my work has just been increasing. I can’t think of a single person outside of those at the very top who can be considered “lucky to have a job” here.

Mass layoff waves are anticipated to significantly impact various industries starting in 2025. These projected job reductions are expected to affect multiple sectors within the state of Texas. The headline specifically points to "Texas industries" as the entities facing these substantial workforce changes. While no individual company is identified, the report promises to highlight the biggest industry to be affected. The article aims to detail which specific sectors within Texas will experience the most significant job losses.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/mass-layoffs-texas-21221197.php

It’s been a rough year for the Texas job market. Several industries have been hit hard by mass layoffs as corporate headquarters ditched the Lone Star State for greener pastures, sometimes leaving the United States all together.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/mass-layoffs-texas-21221197.php

Leadership has bought into the AI hype hoping it will allow them to shed people.
AI is just another a tool...like a hammer.

"it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." ~ Abraham Maslow

Management is handing everyone a hammer and telling them to go pound on everything the see.

Exactly what @bp+1kc37smg0 said.

Any thoughts on when we can expect it?

I can't figure out why would you do mass layoffs without truly considering the people and rolls you are cutting? They just got rid of people blindly without thinking about the impact on the future of the company. Who does that?

To say I'm unhappy with how things turned out would be an understatement. I've been looking for the past few months and a few leads are looking promising. I'm worried though about leaving this soon looking bad on a resume. Is it better to switch now than stick around for a while for the future?

The Stop & Shop in Clinton will close as the company "has made the difficult decision not to renew the lease for our store," according to Stephanie Cunha, a spokesperson for Stop & Shop.

https://patch.com/connecticut/clinton/stop-shop-plans-close-clinton-store-heres-when-why

In case people are wondering why the job market is so employee-unfriendly, with so many people laid off and looking for work, including skilled, high-quality candidates, it’s no wonder employers are lowering requirements and lowballing offers. Something tells me things will get worse before they get better.

Tulsa 371 closing permanently Jan 18th

Is anybody else seeing an uptick in firings or is this an isolated incident? I’m spiraling a bit and starting to worry they’ve decided to save on severance by outright kicking people out without anything, so it’d be nice to know that’s not what’s happening here.

I don’t even want to think about what 2026 is going to be like, considering that for the past five years, if not longer, every single year has been worse in some respect than the one before it. More layoffs, fewer benefits, and a culture that keeps deteriorating. Let’s just say I’m not looking forward to finding out what the next year brings.

Being away for a week only made me realize how miserable I am at Dell. I know I'll be tripling my job search efforts in the new year.

It's gonna be wild!! 16000 this time. That's like 57000 layoffs in the past few years, plus all of the silent layoffs/RTO/RTT/RTH (30000+). Something close to 25% of corporate.

So how do the layoffs which tool place 1 year ago look now as a strategic initiative ?

On December 23, 2024, AM Best wrote the following:

Mutual of America Financial Group is laying off employees as part of its focus on becoming a "more efficient, strategic and customer-focused organization."

Is it more efficient now ?
Is it more client focused ?
Is this all just smoke and mirrors ?

Get ready for the fu-kery that's going to happen on the 5th, maybe even the 4th 😹

Can I take another job if I’m in my non working notice period before lay off?

In coffee line waiting for barista to take my order, overheard two people behind me talking quietly about organizational changes in Q1. Has anyone heard anything about this they can share? Will it be due to layoffs?

Laid-off workers at Western Forest Products’ Chemainus mill say continued raw log exports are costing local jobs, arguing their mill could still be operating if more fibre remained in B.C. The mill has been shut since mid-July, leaving 150 workers out of work while nearby logs are graded for export.

https://shippingmatters.ca/bc-mill-workers-question-ongoing-raw-log-exports-amid-layoffs/

Hundreds of families may be forced to pack up and leave the town of 11,000, heading east to Omaha or Iowa, or south to the meatpacking towns of Kansas or beyond, causing spinoff layoffs in Lexington's restaurants, barbershops, grocers, and convenience stores. "Losing 3,000 jobs in a city of 10,000 to 12,000 people is as big a closing event as we've seen virtually for decades," says Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Indiana's Ball State University. It will be "close to the poster child for hard times."

https://www.newser.com/story/380812/in-a-small-town-one-third-of-residents-are-losing-their-jobs.html

I just can’t cope anymore. Dealing with customers, especially under so much pressure from higher-ups, wears you down after a while. I know the job market is tough, and I have bills and financial obligations like everyone else, but I’m close to my limit. I’d take another job, even a lower-paying one, for the sake of my mental health.

From an article Titled:

"2026 begins with a wave of big-company layoffs"

Large employers are increasingly abandoning the old model of one big layoff in favor of repeated, narrower rounds that keep investors satisfied while leaving employees in a state of chronic uncertainty. I see this shift most clearly in the way Some major firms now talk about "reorienting" or "moving in a new direction," language that masks a strategy of trimming headcount quarter after quarter instead of taking the reputational hit of a single mass cut....

The early 2026 layoff wave is not just a tech story, it is also a tale of heavy industry, energy, and supply chains under pressure. Dec reporting on recent company layoffs shows how Chevron, one of the world's largest energy producers, is slashing up to 20% of its global head count as part of a sweeping restructuring, a move that illustrates how Oil and gas firms are using the current moment to reset their cost base. That same roundup of corporate cuts details how Dec has become a kind of annual reckoning point, with a "Layoffs List" that now includes Chevron alongside telecoms, automakers, and tech giants in a single ledger of recent company layoffs.

Oregon’s unemployment rate has climbed a full percentage point in the past year to 5.2%, its highest level since the pandemic. Oregon has the third-highest jobless rate of any state, behind only California (5.6%) and Nevada (5.3%.)

https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/12/oregons-year-of-layoffs-2025s-historic-job-cuts-are-shaking-the-states-economy.html

With Dan acknowledging our customer service is horrible, did customer experience execs (Ken lain, Suzanne Norton) keep their job or were they impacted with the RIF?

Any news or rumors?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ford-accelerates-global-layoffs-as-it-strategically-repositions-amid-shifting-ev-demand-and-market-volatility/ar-AA1Osivf

Overheard a conversation with senior leaders, speaking to other senior leaders about layoffs in customer service at all capacities happening in the beginning of the year. They forgot to hang up the phone and the conversation continued.

My heart bleeds for them.

Usually around second week of February from experience
Everything is being kept tight lipped tho.

A recently displaced HR manager at HY told me in a 1:1 that CS no longer wants to continue paying severance. Instead, he has instructed his directs to relay to all managers to rely heavily on performance reviews to justify terminations. He also mentioned that there is a plan to cut 30,000 employees in 2026.

Just before Election Day 2025, the U.S. federal government employed approximately 2.3 million people. By the end of the year, it is expected to have shed approximately 213,000 jobs, according to the Partnership for Public Service.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/over-200-000-federal-jobs-have-been-lost-in-trump-s-first-year-in-office/ar-AA1T3pvX