Thread regarding Western Digital Corp. layoffs

Layoffs today at WD IT

There were around 100 ppl let go from IT today.


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Post ID: @OP+1k9xaw1rx

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What about our lazy CIO who rarely shows up to work and is usually clueless about this business?

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Post ID: @66a+1k9xaw1rx

What severance benefits were offered this time around? How sizeable were the packages?

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Post ID: @32m+1k9xaw1rx

Seeing some of retirement in Malaysia

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Post ID: @2zm+1k9xaw1rx

@1za They are replacing IT people with AI and shifting salaries for attract high paid engineers. Many of the folks they let go had been there for more than 10 years.

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Post ID: @2xk+1k9xaw1rx

@1vz read the room on transformations bc too often they last about as long as they have an exec sponsor commitment, a budget, and fearless removing organizational hurdles. Too often those hired for these roles run head long into the nay sayers, who are at least honest, and the status quo benefactors playing the game until they either shape shift a transformation or they outlast it. Update in a few months and tell us how it's going.

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Post ID: @1za+1k9xaw1rx

@1p0 They’re already hiring for an Sr Mgr IT Strategy and Transformation. Read the room.

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Post ID: @1vz+1k9xaw1rx

@1cq aren't they typically some form of "strategic"

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Post ID: @1p0+1k9xaw1rx

@b1
Well ,as long as it was "strategic"

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Post ID: @1cq+1k9xaw1rx

I think this happens every November doesn't it? Always around the same day- second week of november.

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Post ID: @18e+1k9xaw1rx

@qa what does that mean? Care to elaborate?

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Post ID: @wm+1k9xaw1rx

retooling skill sets

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Post ID: @qb+1k9xaw1rx

@b1 sure

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Post ID: @qa+1k9xaw1rx

Rumor is they RIF’d 10% of the workforce. If that’s true, stocks will probably go up, once it comes out.

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Post ID: @kj+1k9xaw1rx

@dz which BU ?

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Post ID: @j8+1k9xaw1rx

@OP I would have had no idea that IT would have so many people that they could lay off 100 head count. How many people do you suppose work in IT?

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Post ID: @e7+1k9xaw1rx

@dt
BU was hit, not just IT

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Post ID: @dz+1k9xaw1rx

Always before Thanksgiving. Does anyone know what functions were hit? Is it just IT or others also hit?

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Post ID: @dt+1k9xaw1rx

Some people in Irvine hit.

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Post ID: @cq+1k9xaw1rx

I heard it was a strategic realignment. No matter, no worries.

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