18 of impending layoffs under WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining... Stanford University told the Labor Department in August it planned to layoff more...
https://sanjosespotlight.com/big-business-plans-to-cut-more-than-8800-jobs-in-south-bay-by-end-of-the-year/
Untrue. The $ savings was used against the number the uppers were looking to save. Dead end products didn't need the support anymore so those teams went. And finally bottom 5% and sales teams that weren't productive resulted in the other numbers. There were a small number that may have been competent but the larger number probably should have been gone. Sort of like Chuck, Maria, Alvio, Steve...
“Do the ERs not count as part of the layoff at Cisco?”
No, Cisco made a big deal out of carefully Branding this last round of workforce reduction as Choice, this or that. They gave employees the choice of Early Retirement, Leave of Absence, Look around for another job (aka wait and see if you get fired in December), while extorting the choice makers with the threat of a smaller severance package for waiting. So, no. The Early Retirement takers, The Volunteers to leave, even if warned that their job was at risk of being cut, they are all voluntary leavers, not layoffs. Slick going Cisco, sicko leaders once again. Prep for more creative reductions in 2021, it’s never ending.
Do the ERs not count as part of the layoff at Cisco?