This seems like a small round, but you can never tell with the size of the company.
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From what could be seen in my BU, specific teams took the blow with more than 10% of persons fired. Global nb could be 2% but this is not homogenuous.
Two percent supposedly…
https://betakit.com/opentext-lays-off-two-percent-of-its-workforce/
@a9 When MF was assimilated, a number of them were placed within our team. I felt bad for some of them, having come from an innovative company to OT, which does things because that's the way they've always done things.
One of them had a horrible case of assimilation sickness. She couldn't craft her work as before, because we use ancient tools. I tried to tell her that her product, like my former one, was being cast in amber to be put on the shelf. The cut her loose when she finished the casting, so to speak.
But their was this other woman, who converted her stuff, even producing a guide for the others to do it, then bounced. She said, very diplomatically, that she didn't like working for large corporations and preferred an 80-100 person company. She found one and left.
I really admired that. I should've done the same thing. I'll do so now, for sure.
No way of knowing other than if you are in the know. It is smaller than the last one earlier this year and the emphasis seems to have been individuals who were absorbed from acquisitions who had high salaries. Sales, Management and Support were affected in this round with a particular focus on remote workers who no longer have an office to go to since the acquisition of the company they once worked for. It appears to be a cutting overheads exercise rather than a performance exercise. Many people of tenure in their old company before acquisition seemed to have been a focus. I think the moral of the Opentext story here is, do not stay too long in the company. Treat it as passing through. There also seems to be a pattern of companies focusing on AI and putting in hiring freezes which I believe will affect jobs going forward. The light side is any company that attempted this have failed thus far as the AI is dependent on the information being fed in. Developers are gate keeping the information resulting in their failures. As a result tenured staff are also being let go or are leaving the company out right as the decline we can all see continues.
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#1. Check Gemini how to query LDAP and fill content to a CSV file., using PowerShell
#2. Use this filter, and loop though.
#3. Pull data periodically, say monthly... and later compare.