Any rumors on layoffs/quiet firing/quiet layoff activities in Q3?
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Hiring freeze, attrition, no offical layoffs.
Hiring freeze, attrition, currently taking place at the Cambridge Canada Location. Low levels of optimism for the future of the Cambridge plant.
Wonder what happens with Dalian once the the real shooting war begins?
Hey guys, quick question do you know what the main criteria were for choosing who to let go? I'm asking because I've heard that a consulting company was involved in the layoff process. Do you think that's true? How on earth would a consulting firm know whether you are still needed or not?
Hiring freeze, atrittion, quiet firing activities will take place. No publicly announced layoffs yet
with the market collapsing thanks to Trump get ready for hiring freezes, and no raises or even worse yet them asking us all to take a pay cut like they did for COVID..
My plan was to retire later this year!
If the market does not rebound quickly, i may have to work for another few years!
I do not believe that the company will embark on yet another cost cutting journey. The layoffs are unlikely in the short term.
I'm pretty sure @1k7+1jq7wfm07 is a thelayoff bot pumping alarmist views into this board. And clearly ESL.
Let's be real, the whole stock market is collapsing.
Stock is collapsing!
RA stock tanked today!
Hopefully, the stock price and EPS will recover soon. I dont think that Layoffs are coming in Q3. They will try to shed ppl by attrition and forcing ppl to quit especially in NA!
Dozens? Keep em comin
2 ppl retired and 2 resigned from our location. The positions will not be backfilled. I anticipate the roles would be replaced by the roles in India. I do not see any “layoffs”. Thr quiet firing is quite evident. I have just retired with 93 points at age of 64.
I think Rockwell may be turning the corner. Good people like Jane Barr, Bob Buttermore and now Evan Kaiser are vp’s and above. These people have delivered most of the value for Rockwell after the old guard like Fran and Frank failed. We are on the upswing. Thank you Tessa Becky and Blake. Too bad we lost Arvind Rao. He will be missed but we will overcome.
As someone who worked for multiple s&p500 companies and have recently retired from RA, i would strongly suggest the following:
- Generate multiple streams of income. Nobody is irreplaceable and shielded from layoffs!!!
- Change roles, departments, companies! Expand your responsibilities and be visible!!
- Always ensure that you resume and profiles are up to date. Actively network always!
- Detach your identity/personal brand from the temporary title at work!
Fasten your seat belts because all big companies now conduct conduct stealth DOGE activities in the background ! NA long tenured, remote, high cost, PowerPoint creators, email forwarders, giggly soft skilled incompetent experts are a legitimate target!!!
Almost all of the remote roles can easily be outsourced to India. Covid times helped the leadership teams determine which rolea can be performed well remotely.
India offers an abundance of low cost, highly motivated, educated workforce who is online 18hrs a day!!!
Hi-Becky here-please give us a 100 on employee engagement. North Korean leader gets this, why shouldn't I?? We have retained Alix partners. They know who you are on this site and the response to employee engagement. If you are not supportive, you better get supportive or we will "reassign" you. It's important we get the right people. We are already looking at Matheus and Bobby B (But we like his hair). Matt is a robot, so we can direct him easily. Tessa is our DUI hire. All good. We got rid of Fran, frank, Lee, Patrick, Sujeet and all then other old losers. I am glad I can make sure I give money to the elite colleges and secure my kids admission. I don't really care about you folks who make less than 175K. You are sheeple. Columbians do the work at 1/2and provide me a little tootskie. Me/Him/Them/They-Becky
The manufacturing facilities in NA (especially Mexico and Canada) will have a very hard tome competing with Poland, India, and China. The layoffs in NA are inevitable! The leadership will gap the decline in EPS with layoffs. Let us see what Q3 will bring with tariffs.
So. All you folks who see the "insidious" outsource to lower cost countries as a "Rockwell" conspiracy. Maybe you are a maga fool who thinks we will "bring" mfg back. Wake up. The US public companies balance a mid term (CEO driven) and short term (EPS shareholder/share price battle). It's no wonder more companies are using PE and going private. A company should look to drive cost lower. Rockwell has had Dalian servicing distributed HMI SW for 15 years. China, India graduate 3x the engineers the US does at 1/3 the cost. Iran is right behind us. Wake up. We should focus on differentiated value with technology. Automation ain't that. BYD is eclipsing Tesla now. Blake and Becky are too stupid to understand this and Rockwell will slowly decline. Installed base and fear in industrial areas to change are the curse and savior. If you have 5 years or less, ease up, fu-k RA. they have fu---d you. More than five years. Look and look hard. Blake is a lean over, turn red id--t who has eroded shareholder value. What is the employee engagement? He listens to McKinsey. Those dolts have made $300M off of RA in the last 5 years. They also created Enron. Run
I agree with @va+1jq7wfm07. It's no coincidence they just opened a huge facility in Chennai. In the last four years, Rockwell has quadrupled it's number of employees in India. Is that all new headcount? Doubt. I'm guessing it's replacing the NA headcount.
https://www.business-standard.com/industry/news/rockwell-automation-betting-on-turning-india-into-manufacturing-hub-124121000350_1.html
I have been with a company for 3 years working remotely for about 15months now.
It seems that all the US remote jobs are either outsourced to India, eliminated, or soon to be replaced by AI. The company is performing a stealth doge in the background
@qk+1jq7wfm07 Because Blake has been outed as a cr-ppy ceo
Why Rockwell stock in free fall today?
Has anyone seen the latest employee engagement scores? What are they? What was the response to "I trust the leadership team"? I bet they are great. Remember when motion had a 78 engagement? Ahhh the good ole days..........
I would not rule out the possibility of more layoffs and “quiet firing” activities.
We have just lost a few good folks to the competitors. Their roles will not be back filled.
The layoffs will depend on the Q2 2025 Earnings Release results. Watch for the EPS. One if the easiest ways to increase the EPS is by layoffs. I would definite Not rule out more layoffs and quiet firing efforts
Remember when it was a race between Blake and Frank on who would be the next CEO??? Ahhh-the good old days. Boy did the employees and shareholders get s c r e w e d when they pick Blake "aw shucks" Moret. Who would have guessed he was stupid and arrogant. I think this explains Blake -The Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when a person's lack of knowledge and skill in a certain area causes them to overestimate their own competence.
Watch the EPS targets. Blakey-boy uses headcount to cover the gap as sales stagnate. I hear Q3 seems OK, Most segments doing OK or growing modestly. Leadership will claim their awesomeness in management is the cause. Even a stop clock is correct twice a day.
FIRE BLAKE
Hi-arvind here-I might be vertically challenged but I am not insignificant. I created 5000 slides. Now I will help carrier!
Arvind got more than $1M in stock options and probably double that. Scotty G is worthless. Blake has allowed Logix to get lapped (again) after he was warned not to defund logic development. Matheus is smart but outnumbered by id--ts. Matt is a SAP wonk. Tessa is-well, she wasn't the last generation of leaders pick to manage more than sales (so she influenced Blake to get them out earlier than needed). Cyril is nice but ineffective. ASEM was a lucky get for Optic as ViewE was a $200M debacle. (Blake paid 30M more than needed as well) Fiix sell price was Blake being stupid. $100M more than it could have been. . .
Cubix seems OK but another lucky get that Blake thoughts as "we are in data centers", (BTW-they where considered for 2500MCC, but trubshacw and engineering thought that "centerline" was a better idea - d-mb)
Plex, well, that broke the bank. @.3B for $160m in revenue in bespoke ware for niche glue software (ever wonder why Pharma, semi con, discrete mfg,.....MES SW is different??). I could go on, but no one left listens. Fran, Frank, Patrick, Sujeet ,Johny Mac, were way better than the current set of dolts. Blake should be judged on what could have been had he leveraged the talent he had vs. listening to the id--ts at McKinsey. And they are id--ts. They created Enron! That puke will leave rich. So will Becky, probably the queen of incompetence and fraud.
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@d7+1jq7wfm07, RA management is definitely reading the comments. The Ge----o is trying to find the person(s) that have made comments about our products, so don't say anything too specific that could be narrowed down to a specific group or location otherwise you might find yourself pulled into a conference room for questioning. If all else fails, remember what Sergeant Schultz would say, I know nothing, and say it with a German accent for fun.
Arvind Rao is fairly insignificant! His departure is unimportant.
He was probably managed out. Cashed out his options and ran.
Did Arvind get the boot? or did he leave under his own power?
I'm quite certain no RA mgrs are on this site. I think most people quiet quit a long, long time ago.
For the RA Management and Alix Partners people monitoring this site, the comment by @a8+1jq7wfm07 is called sarcasm and I have to state that because I am scared you might take it seriously based on past experience, but I dare you to further weaken the company by getting rid of more engineers and technical resources.
The uncertainty around the trade war will add to uncertainty. Some plants outside of US may close. I dont think there will be layoffs but many people will “quiet quit” or simply check out mentally.
Will depend on performance but likely not. If we do have more layoffs, we should target engineers and technical resources. It would hurt our company a lot if we lost a layer of sales middle management.