#townhall

Last minute townhall invite sent. Poor planning or intentionally last minute?

Just received an invite for tomorrow morning, 55minutes long. Sent to 'ETIPS_ALL_FTEs', only tidbit is "Please join the leadership team for an update on our future operating model and strategy". Whatever that means?

Where we get to January 2027 and John hosts a Townhall where he exclaims to the small crowd of Simple Jeff Oompa Loompas...

"You've won! You did it! You did it! I knew you would! I just knew you would! Oh, forgive me for putting you through this. Please, forgive me."

And then the room turns into an elevator that shoots out of the top of the building and sores above downtown Dallas as it heads to the future site of the Plano HQ.

What do you guys think about townhall/or whatever of new/remaining Honeywell

Town hall tomm. HR included on the call. People and culture is one of the topics. LMAO. These posts must have reached HR, and finally some action? Ok let's see what new BS they spew out

Anyone got an idea if there’s going to be a big announcement in Sunbury town hall tomorrow?

Ask about that number in the next town hall.

Leadership has been sworn to secrecy for that reason alone. It is a big number and it will get a lot of press in Milwaukee. Extravagant north building rebuild. Eating a massive loss on Franklin. Mckinsie is leading the way. All while collecting massive consulting fees.

Long-time reader, first-time posting. I was planning to post yesterday only, but I just came back from travel.

After yesterday’s town hall, I am still having many questions. It answered many things, but not the questions most people were actually asking. There were plenty of buzzwords and positive statements, but not much real clarity.

I am still not understanding the Alderon split properly. What will remain with IBM? What will move to Alderon? On what basis these decisions are being taken? Even after the town hall, I don’t have a better understanding.

Also, it looked like the usual favorites are getting special treatment. From what I could understand, many of those people will remain with IBM, while everyone else is still not knowing what will happen with their future. Maybe there are valid reasons behind these decisions, but they were not explained clearly.

Just wanted to know what others are thinking. Did this town hall give you more confidence, or did it leave you with even more questions? Are you feeling more secure about your job after listening to it? Interested to hear everyone’s thoughts and opinions

What’s going on with the Canada town hall cancelled??

at least today they said mckinsie is determining our "new way of working". that is as effective as sending a one legged man to a butt kicking contest.

This clown really writes this end of day, while they leave executives and senior management in place with absolutely no clue of what they're doing, canning some actually decent people today who were helping the organization which they canned on a whim. We hear nothing from this guy and this is the first thing that comes from this useless guy after the last useless CTO leaves.

Team:

This isn't an easy note to write, but I want to be transparent and open a dialogue with this team. Earlier today, a small but targeted number of colleagues learned that their roles in our technology organization were eliminated. These were not performance-based decisions. These are people who have given real effort to this organization and I want to acknowledge that as well as share with you the context behind my decisions.

If you are reading this and your role was not impacted, I want you to know: I do not take you for granted. And if someone you respect and have worked alongside every day is leaving FIS today, I want you to know: I did not take that lightly.

The structural changes we're making - moving work closer to engineering teams, embedding agile practices and technical product ownership where delivery actually happens, and integrating documentation and performance work into our normal delivery model - are the right moves for where we need to go. But right moves can still be hard moves. When we reduce coordination layers and consolidate how work gets done, I know there are real people behind those roles who have contributed meaningfully to this organization.

I want to be specific about what changed and why, because you deserve that clarity:

Agile coaching is moving from a standalone function into the product and engineering teams where those practices now live day-to-day. The discipline isn't going away - it's becoming part of how we work, not a separate layer.
Technical product management is being realigned to engineering teams so ownership sits closer to the teams building the product, with leadership layers removed to reduce handoffs and improve speed.
Documentation and performance work is moving into engineering as a core part of delivery.
These are targeted changes. The vast majority of our technology colleagues are not impacted and their day-to-day work continues. But I know that when people that you have worked alongside are suddenly gone, it affects you - regardless of whether your own role has changed. If someone in your team or in your network was impacted today, take a moment to reach out. Their work mattered.

I know this can be difficult. But the platform we are building - an AI-first, resilient, scalable technology organization - is not a future-state aspiration. It is the work in front of us right now. And the talent in this organization is more than capable of building it.

I will be holding a town hall to answer your questions directly. Your leaders have resources to help you navigate this transition and I've asked them to create space for open conversations as well.

Thank you for your commitment to this work.
Don Duet

Stephen and co. seemed to balance negatives with positives effectively (e.g. being selected as a Medicaid MCO for IL but also losing membership over the next several years.)

Have layoffs settled? Anything we should expect?

Pete L talking about IA employees are the most valuable part.. mkay how many will be RIFfed soon?

There are rumors circulating that 100–150 employees may be laid off beginning today, June 16.

Several anonymous first- and second-hand accounts claim that departmental managers are not being informed in advance about which employees will be affected. According to these reports, some employees are being told their positions have been eliminated and escorted out of the building, while others are being notified via Zoom or Teams.

At this point, none of this information has been verified.

MUHC has a Town Hall scheduled for tomorrow at noon.

Can anyone confirm, deny, or provide additional information?

Was in the calendar for 23 June, now to be “rescheduled following quarter end close”. Probably waiting to see who’s still here to do the presentation.

Wondering if different plans getting different information. Town hall for Fidelis today

What are people referring to? Have seen a few posts about this. I also missed the town hall where I read in a few comments that it apparently broke through a couple of times

Does anyone have the town hall meeting phone number

Was just recently alerted to a former coworker who posted to LinkedIn about being let go.
This wasn't the normal LinkedIn post just letting people know about the employment change.

This coworker was fired for asking an "Unprofessional" question about why "employee comp hasn't been keeping up with inflation while our CEO's comp has increased 300% during the same time"

I missed this but give this guy props. I've wanted to do the same on so many calls over the years.

Can't even ask comp unless it's private now. Nothing can be talked about in the open with coworkers.

Crazy to know that leadership doesn't include themselves when tightening CDW's belt to weather the storm....they'd rather just throw people beneath them off the ship to stay afloat.

This coworker sounds like they got walked off the plank for mutiny.

Thoughts on that Town Hall?

Any thoughts on the town hall yesterday? Lots of teamwork and buckle up talk but nothing of substance.

It’s about time these fu--ing millionaires in the C-suite open up a town hall for real questions.

Do it, cowards.

Monday June 2nd. Everyone at the Tempe site under CCB Any thoughts?

The town hall felt like the usual, with a few stand out moments. Plants legitimately asked how to get a req approved and filled faster and basically got an answer that EVP reviews weekly but other than that, we just don’t know! Also, having EVP say he’s not a process guy is frustrating- isn’t poor and cumbersome processes (tickets and self-serve apps that get you nowhere) a big part of the problem? That is probably the reason so much time is spent on calls and meetings and meaningless metrics. Joking about being EVP for a quarter means he outlasted the last guy was actually funny, but if exec levels turnover that fast, why wouldn’t employees? Don’t they quit bad managers before they quit bad companies? I guess we just need to be on site and that will fix things

Thoughts on today’s town hall?

To those posting positively about hiring and growth at OpenText on the threads here.

Please do a reality check on how things actually are here and across the industry. If you haven’t done your own research, ask around. Plenty of people will give you an honest picture.

If you know the reality and choose to ignore it, at least don’t mislead others. Stop posting overly optimistic takes about job openings or “returning to growth” when most people here see it differently.

From the recent all-hands and CEO town hall, many of us felt the leadership lacked ownership and accountability. Questions were deflected to the ELT, and there was no clear stand on strategy, growth, or revenue only focus on personal incentives.

The concern is real: without change, OpenText risks hurting both its financials and its people.

If you disagree, back it up with facts. Otherwise, it’s time to face reality.

Thoughts on the s and t townhall?

During the Q2 Town Hall, a question was asked about our strategy to replace commodity IT roles with external partners.

The answer was that we're moving to more of a factory model of labor, and we're going to reduce the need to have specialized 3M knowledge.

Between that and the other half of the town hall being about how we need to scale up our use of AI, it's clear that they're looking to reduce headcount.

What you guys think?

Hot Mess town hall today. Will he paint the org all rosy, as if we should be happy to be working under him? Will he conveniently skip over his big project to outsource all?

Does anyone in UHC have a town hall all employee meeting?

I could have sworn Sirini said point blank “layoffs are done for the year” at the last town hall a couple weeks back. Yet here we are with another big wave this past week. What gives?

I feel nauseous.

Let’s see how Dennis Mathew spins the stock below $1.00 during his Town Hall meeting today. I suspect won’t even be brought up.

Very odd it’s not in May, think they’re cooking the books with the layoffs to make the numbers look good? New CEO announcement? New RTO policy?

Any thoughts abour possible surprises at this weeks townhall?

They have been completely useless for years now. Try to remember the last time we learned something useful from a town hall. I can't and I doubt anybody else can. Just ignore them. They're nothing but a waste of time.

What a bunch of douch bags on that broadcast. How about a few of them get the shaft and why was the girl on the end so shiny? She looked plastic.

Even though you're doing more work, more hours, more roles and the load of three others, you don't deserve a raise because Vz is so much more efficient and has better tools than ever before?

He actually said that with a straight face.

Why is it so difficult engage with the executive during the town hall? So much skirting around. Just get straight to the point.