Can anyone that works at that location provide an honest accurate summary of how many employees have been let go and what departments are affected?
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The other Shoe has drooped, Boeing announces more 737 Max cancellations. Look for more cost cutting from Charlotte. Another 50 to 75 heads will be gone by the end of the year,
Honeywell handed over the GA and GPS markets to Garmin. Much of the rest to overseas. How patriotic of them. All those years of development, blud, sweat and tears, wasted and looted by the crown thieves of Honeywell. Now that all, including the Arizona facilities are facing the same fate, the whole company was wasted and looted. All business groups. They were "entitled to" a PPP bailout. Oh...wait.
@1ioj Olathe's fate was sealed when the Allied Signal takeover of Honeywell was completed in 2000. As a premier manufacturer of GA products it was left to wither on the vine. Margins for profit were too small to warrant investment by Morristown. This has led to the Rise of Garmin. The King is Dead... Long Live the King!!!
By definition, if you work at Honeywell, you already are in the meat grinder. For some facilities, they use a wood chipper out back.
Wasn't Olathe at one time like 20 years ago, the manufacturing jewel of Allied Signal, then Honeywell Aero (low defects, low cost, etc.)? In the states, it couldn't cost much less than the cornfields outside of Olathe, KS, for a facility with development and manufacturing. They let the facility go to pot (including the leaking roof), then just put it through a meat grinder. Makes you wonder where they could move that manufacturing for "cost savings" or whatever, unless going to off-shore. Well they did train most of the offshore manufacturing facility workers there.
What a waste of a legacy of multiple companies and sites to be moved there, only to later go to the slaughterhouse. If I worked in R&O there, I'd always assume the worst, and be ready for pay freezes, layoffs, and the whole bit, while looking for another job.
In the end, the executives and upper management of this company for decades have been (and still are) drastically overpaid for easy-street disaster capitalism. A bunch of high schoolers might have done a better job of running a company.
Summary, they are hosed. NO PET's Small contingent of PSE's and PE's. Some management and a lot of support roles eliminated. About 75 people let go. Production is going to go away, leaving R&O to occupy the rest of the building. The handwriting has been on the wall for some time.