#layoffs

Notifications went out this morning

3 Arizona employers announced mass layoffs in November 2025
azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:10:13 GMT
Three employers based in Arizona announced mass layoffs. These significant workforce reductions were made public in November 2025. The news indicates a substantial impact on the job market within the state. While individual company names are not specified in the headline, the collective action is notable. This means numerous employees across Arizona are facing job displacement.

City: Not specified
State: Arizona

Procrastinators of layoff doom, here is a record of totals for Ford employees.

I will post the link again when the 2025 numbers are updated.

Let see how correct the predictors of large layoffs for 2025 actually were.

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/f/employees/

You all can call me “blur”. I was behind the silent layoffs post. Few people just got laid off in content ops. I know that’s just a small update but will release more soon. Feel free to confirm what I said. Nothing I say is a lie. I work for the people. F these corps. See ya later skrrr.

It looks like another round is starting at Hughes this week.

Asking for a friend. What would be their response?

So ridiculous, toxic environment, years of dei hires with no experience, culture is like working at a buss terminal. HR & Labor Relations work together to sc--w you and make this job uncomfortable. Im still here for now but good luck to those laid off. Besides the paycheck what did you really accomplish.

Not sure if mgmt will attempt to bolster the Q4 results with more layoffs. The October 15-20% cuts will be included in Q4 but the goodwill reporting delays cannot be further delayed.

Insights on plans to capture further headcount reductions in 2025?

This month will there be IA for the 13,000 working through it ? Heard mixed messages

Someone needs to investigate Verizon and it's executives. There's no way they aren't hiding things that would get them thrown in prison. Stock manipulation, earnings manipulation, growth manipulation, taking bonuses while laying off employees, allowing outsourced calls centers to steal customers information to then be used by scammers (which we all know come mainly from overseas), ECT ECT. I'm sure the secrets they hide keep them up at night. Enough is enough!!!

Dead yet? Wondering how long the leadership can rest and vest doing nothing but errands for Uncle Hock. Lord knows nothing engineering related could have happened after I left the funhouse of mirrors that is bcom.

It’s funny how management was always telling us to sell sell sell, follow the prices even if I had to sell to 90 year old lady who is being transferred to assisted living facility who needs a landline just so she can talk to her son every Sunday but I have to ask her does she stream and she don’t know what that is. All of a sudden we customer focused it’s now be nice to the customer do what’s right for the customer, whatever, we have always said that but this regime was always about money money money and now look Dan laying people off left and right. We did this to our selves! Yes everyone is in the business to make money but let’s use common sense. Customer dies , but you want us to ask the daughter or son do they want to take over the internet. Yeah change this sh-t Dan!!

Free weekend meals going away
What else is getting taken away ?

You all the layoffs in 2026 will be brutal
We can all feel it coming
Brace yourself it’s going to be bad

Can you all sense it?

so flaming...

mindi cox of o.c. tanner says skipping them sends the wrong cultural message

simple, sincere gestures—letters, small parties, practical gifts—go a long way

most employees plan to attend celebrations this year, showing a desire for positivity

compensation talks should stay separate from holiday appreciation

https://fortune.com/2025/11/24/should-companies-throw-holiday-parties-after-layoffs-employee-gifts-economic-uncertanity-morale/

major layoffs happened at disney, warner bros, and paramount

many layoffs affected rank-and-file employees and mid-level execs

recruiters say past success doesn’t guarantee future leadership roles

some expect recovery in the job market by 2026

many laid-off workers are simplifying their lives to survive

new jobs, when found, often come with pay cuts, up to 50%

starting a business in hollywood is no longer stigmatized

many former execs are starting independent ventures

hollywood workers are trying to adapt to the tough new job landscape

the current job market remains tight for entertainment industry professionals

I joined this company when it was still considered a start-up and was part of its incredible growth during Covid, as well as the major decline it is now facing. Here are some things I noticed.

Management is not in tune with the market.

I hate to say this, but numbers were falsified during the CG buyout, which caused a hard fallout between the former management and CarGurus.

Many of the leaders who are still there are in over their heads.

CarGurus hit the panic button and laid off too many people at once, which led to a decline in dealers on the platform.

During Covid, CarOffer sc--wed over a lot of clients, which resulted in our reps getting kicked out of 20-group meetings and Auction Access taking rights away from CarOffer.

• United Supermarkets will cut 126 employees in Texas starting early 2026, continuing through the year.
• Cuts are tied to a major investment in new operating systems across United, Market Street, Amigos, Albertsons Market, and United Express.
• Roles affected are mainly in the Lubbock main office, including marketing and support desk positions.
• United operates 96 stores and says the changes will strengthen operations and service quality.
• The move fits into Albertsons broader cost reduction plan after its failed Kroger merger, including prior layoffs in Phoenix and California.

Can someone please break it down for me the main differences between the 1st wave and the 2nd wave? It sounds like the 2nd wave has a longer transition period until April 1st while the 1st wave only had 30 days? Just trying to be mentally prepared for what the 3rd wave would look like. Thank you all for your inputs. This forum has been more helpful and informational than any leader(s) could be.

There are still a lot of stragglers in Winston-Salem, NC. I know the building's being cleared out and sold, but I still don't know many people that have been told anything.

Huntington National Bank to begin layoffs tied to Veritex acquisition
The Business Journals
Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:25:00 GMT

Huntington National Bank is preparing to begin layoffs as a result of its recent acquisition. These job reductions are directly tied to the integration of Veritex. The process of merging the two companies often results in overlapping roles and redundancies. Affected employees will experience job loss as the bank streamlines its combined operations. This move is part of an effort to optimize the workforce and structure following the acquisition.

https://www.wfaa.com/article/money/business/huntington-national-bank-dallas-layoffs-veritex-acquisition/287-e9d05913-ea3a-4079-8313-20a64524db2d

What areas are expected to be impacted this week?

First day back from Thanksgiving long weekend. Very nice of you WellsFargo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

AI promises were made that it’d save TONS of $ and it has not. Now is the time to pay the piper and there are shareholder expectations to be met. They are expecting lots of cheddar on the promises made. So, you have to recoup that money from somewhere.
Lay people off + a reduction in force by way of attrition. Turn up the heat, pile on the work and watch people leave which is a big win so that you don’t have to pay out severance.

The best part that is that Jane still gets her extra 20+ million $ bonus….again. As far as Citi upper echelon is concerned, all is right with the world.

Go for it friends, tell me what ch’a hearing……..

I’ll start - next round of RIFs coming soon. Another 10k+ to go.

Look at T-Mobile, if they can operate with less people, so can we!

Each day gets a little worse with BE in charge. There is no communication no big vision. It feels like the last days of a company going out of business where even the shelves are being put up for sale. People are visibly miserable. Like openly talking about how much they hate it here miserable. No one cares anymore. Most are stuck because the job market is cr-ppy. If it turns around this place will lose thousands overnight.

they are silently reducing people and giving out severance packages already. More to come. Before you ask me how I know. Go to your outlook and lookup “usrifsupport@thomsonreuters.com”. Then ask me again how I know and why I would be d-mb enough to tell you all. Not fear mongering but all I’m saying is just apply and keep your resume updated just in case because this isn’t TR specific and all organizations are downsizing due to AI.

What do we think the size of the pre Christmas layoffs will be ? It seems like the top ones are early in the year and mid year , or have they also hit it hard before Christmas to avoid paying the match ?

Here we go…..more coming in January, confirmed.

Here’s one:

Verizon will lay off 165 employees in January 2026 including 14 people in Skagit and Whatcom counties.

The telecommunications giant filed the layoff notice to the worker adjustment and retraining notification database, part of the Washington state Employment Security Department.

In the layoff notice, Verizon wrote it was undergoing a restructuring “to maximize the utilization of company facilities and resources.”

What global and regional teams got cut due to the recent Amazon corporate takeover?

There are rumors spreading over MN SoC organization that due new strategy of CEO custom silicon is dead end and HW designers will be laid off, nvidia will be sole silicon provider.
Anyone knows something ? All of this seems unreal…

"As part of the closure of its blast furnace and coke making operations, Algoma has made the difficult decision to issue approximately 1,000 layoff notices today, effective in 16 weeks on March 23, 2026," reads an emailed statement from the company.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/northern-ontario-steel-mill-issues-layoff-notices-to-1-000-workers-9.6998768

IBM will continue layoffs until it finds a business model that works and works reliably for many years. For the last two decades, Software, Hardware, and Services have taken turns playing the IBM not-me game. I won’t make profit, but I will amplify that other team which will directly own your profit. Without my synergy, you will surely fail, so you must keep me. Every couple years, a new profit maker is anointed and a new round of the game begins.

Even if they find a model, it needs to work reliably for many years. Not so long ago at the beginning of Watson (AI), a Watson kick-off meeting was held in Austin for the entire Watson management team. The business plan presented would rapidly accelerate to stratospheric heights in 3 or better yet 2 years and remain there for 20-30 years before starting a gradual and still profitable decline. Commoditization utterly destroyed this plan and business in 18 months. Models fail even faster in 2025.

In a world of cheap vanilla-grade CPUs, RAM, networking, and storage and completely free software, it’s hard to find a higher grade product that people will pay for outside of regulated businesses. And those who do unquestionably need the value add point to the cheap stuff and demand lower pricing. And the cowards in sales fear losing 100% of their commission and decide that a steep discount benefits both them and their client.

This is nothing new; it’s just come to IBM’s corner of tech now. In the 80’s there was a battle between two consumer video storage systems: Betamax and VHS. The cheaper — in both senses — won out. There were superior alternatives to Compact Discs for audiophiles, but the CD wiped them off the market. MP3 audio compression is terrible, but it dominated the music streaming and download business for a long time.

All 3 of IBM’s pillars (Hardware, Services, and Software) have experienced their own versions of this. That’s why they play not-me. IBM has 3 future strategies. Hybrid Cloud, which can’t sustain an IBM-sized business. AI which is already deep into the commoditization spiral and has as an industry accumulated over a trillion dollars in debt. IBM has already stepped off the AI stage, preferring to serve as high-end salesmen for partners’ actual products packaged up with an IBM bow. Quantum Computing: how many non-governmental clients will actually need this capability badly enough to shoulder some risk, finance the development costs, and pay ongoing support. Quantum computing could be the opening for IBM to become the CocaCola Bottling company of tech — providing a low-profit product that makes others fabulously wealthy.

Until these things change, IBM will have to undergo periodic amputations. When it ends in one or more passes through Bankruptcy Court, then we will discover how bad things can get.

A once failing tech company called Apple righted itself for a while by leaving the tech industry and joining the fickle fashion industry. Is there another industry where centenarian IBM might fit well?

Buckle up folks … and prepare for turbulence for the duration of the flight.

Perfectly said, @tq+1kb1metdd.

Is anybody else worried that with the never-ending layoffs pretty much everywhere, even if we manage to find a job we'll be out within a few months because of the first in first out rule? I know everybody is getting rid of seasoned employees, but they have to balance it, and new employees usually pay the price.

Anyone find anything interesting in the OWBPA document for their groups in the severance portal? I was surprised to see how many people in my group were affected and the band levels

here is as i preserved it:

Original post: Layoffs started today, targeting work from home employees.
Posted 25 days ago.

Replies:

• Someone with a manager friend said no employees were cut in India and the India office is actually expanding.
  (16 days ago)

A user noted that something mentioned earlier has been in place since September.
(20 days ago)

Several people expressed sympathy for those laid off and asked about severance amounts.
(20 days ago)

A worker warned that company laptops have tracking software logging keystrokes, emails, and online time, and that data is sent to HR.
(20 days ago)

Another person shared a link to a post on X.
(20 days ago)

Layoffs reportedly began in Dublin as well.
(21 days ago)

Someone questioned why another user thought Canada would be next.
(21 days ago)

A commenter said that unless you worked more than 5 years, you did not receive 60 days of severance.
(22 days ago)

One employee from Delivery said they were let go a week after starting maternity leave.
(22 days ago)

A commenter suggested people start job searching or take early retirement. They said no WARN notices were issued to avoid media coverage.
(23 days ago)

Another said that everyone’s computer now has Sapience monitoring software and that you should always appear productive to avoid being cut.
(23 days ago)

One aggressive user responded rudely to others, which was downvoted heavily.
(23 days ago)

A user called the CEO a puppet controlled by Clearlake Capital and compared him to Elon Musk.
(23 days ago)

Another user angrily rejected mandatory cameras and status reports.
(23 days ago)

Someone reported that Product and Sales teams took a big hit.
(23 days ago)

Another person confirmed that a specific employee referenced earlier is also gone.
(23 days ago)

A detailed personal story
One employee wrote they were laid off and said morale is at an all time low. They described mandatory camera usage and weekly work justification summaries as toxic micromanagement. They said the CEO’s leadership style feels insecure and that this is a good time to leave a sinking ship.
(23 days ago)

Another user said Clearlake took a terrible bridge loan and that D and B is now trying to slap AI features on products to impress investors.
(23 days ago)

Someone noted that with over 3 billion dollars in debt, layoffs barely matter and that business units may be sold next.
(23 days ago)

Someone believed Canada might be next for cuts.
(23 days ago)

A commenter said the President of North America was gone.
(23 days ago)

Someone claimed more cuts are coming in the new year.
(24 days ago)

Another confirmed about 150 layoffs in total.
(24 days ago)

One user said the place has become terrible and advised everyone remaining to update their resumes because more cuts are coming.
(24 days ago)

Someone criticized the CEO for being in Europe while layoffs happened in the US.
(24 days ago)

A user asked which departments in Canada were affected.
(24 days ago)

Someone said approximately 200 people were laid off in North America and that this will impact Operations.
(24 days ago)

Another asked what “bc” meant.
(24 days ago)

A person responded with “80”, possibly referencing headcount.
(24 days ago)

Someone said they were let go while physically in the office.
(24 days ago)

Another asked whether severance was given.
(24 days ago)

A commenter said they personally knew of three layoffs: a project manager, a DevOps employee, and an ITSM developer. Two were in the US, one in India.
(24 days ago)

Another said valuable employees were let go and incompetent ones kept.
(24 days ago)

Someone explained that failing to issue a WARN notice usually costs a penalty equal to 60 days pay, but if the company gives two months of severance, that effectively neutralizes the penalty.
(25 days ago)

Public sector teams also experienced cuts.
(25 days ago)

A remote project manager in Texas was let go.
(25 days ago)

Someone encouraged laid-off employees to update LinkedIn, reach out to their networks, and asked how the layoffs were conducted (meetings or phone calls).
(25 days ago)

Another detailed scenario:
Client Success employees in Center Valley were affected. Even though they were hired from that office, their cost center was moved to Harrisburg after an acquisition in late August. They believe this shift was used strategically to avoid triggering WARN notice requirements tied to single-site layoffs.
(25 days ago)

A user asked which positions at which locations were laid off.
(25 days ago)

Another said the fine for not doing WARN notices is small enough that the company can easily pay it.
(25 days ago)

Additional replies toward the bottom

Someone asked everyone who posts to include their department and position.
(25 days ago)

A commenter said they too were laid off while working from home in the US.
(25 days ago)

Another person said they were let go from CyberSecurity.
(25 days ago)

Someone believed that WARN notice applies when 60 or more employees are affected.
(25 days ago)

A user asked others what roles they were in.
(25 days ago)

One person said they were let go but saw no WARN notice for PA, FL, or NJ and asked how the company is avoiding it.
(25 days ago)

Someone wrote that their position was eliminated that day.
(25 days ago)

Another person said they were in the office when let go.
(25 days ago)

Another confirmed they had just been let go.
(25 days ago)

• Omnicom's $9 billion merger with Interpublic Group will result in about 4,000 job cuts.
• The merger creates the world's largest advertising agency group with $25 billion in revenue.
• Omnicom will retire legacy brands and restructure into new divisions to streamline operations.

https://www.businessinsider.com/omnicom-ipg-advertising-merger-to-result-in-4000-layoffs-2025-12?op=1

Were you a high performer that got laid off?