Thread regarding McDonald's Corp. layoffs

The full company memo

AlI U.S.-based McDonald's offices, including MHO, will be closed April 3-5 and employees should work remotely. During this timeframe, please reschedule any in-person meetings at MHQ with outside vendors to be hosted virtually or a different week. Please reinforce this message across your teams and to any external contractors who work at MHQ.

  • AlI U.S.-based employees who work from an office location may work remotely for the duration of the week of April 3.
  • Please flag any scheduling or remote work concerns to your people manager. If you will not have access to a computer due to travel, please share your personal contact information with your taflager
  • For international corporate employees. please confirm guidance from your market leadership regarding local office status.

Hello everyone,

As shared in January, transforming how we work through Accelerating the Organization (AtO) is a long-term strategy, requiring us to shift from legacy mindsets to new behaviors. Thank you for asking important questions and contributing to the discussion over the past few months as we start to shape our change journey.

We have a clear opportunity ahead of us to get faster and more effective at solving problems for our customers and people and to globally scale our successful market innovations at speed. To change our ways of working, we are evolving our culture and organizing our structure with a commitment to be:

  • Faster, by leveraging our global scale to align resources and take smarter risks to solve customer problems once together.
  • More Innovative, by pushing innovation out to the markets where we are closest to our customers and franchisees.
  • More Efficient, by reducing work that does not align to enterprise priorities or can be more effectively performed at the enterprise level.

And to provide our people with:

More exciting career opportunities, by providing clear career paths and development in a raster moving, more innovative organization.

During the week of April 3, we will communicate key decisions related to roles and staffing levels across the organization to help us achieve these ambitions.We are committed to our values guiding our decisions, how we communicate those changes, and how we will support every member of the company.

AlI U.S.-based McDonald's offices, including MHQ, are closed April 3-5 and employees should work remotely. We want to ensure the comfort and confidentiality of our people during the notification period. We also recognize that next week lands within a busy travel season and we aim to provide a consistent communication experience for all employees. As such, all notification meetings will be hosted virtually.

  • All U.S.-based employees who work from an office location may work remotely for the duration of the week of April 3.
  • During this timeframe, please reschedule any in-person meetings at MHQ.
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Post ID: @OP+1lXUNMfw

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Is this going to be another "cut staff and flatten the organization in the name of being more agile and innovative when really it's just about cutting people and paying less" transformation?

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Post ID: @4pev+1lXUNMfw

Love all the comments about management not having the guts to lay people off to their faces… That’s what happens when you refuse to RTO. now everyone can just stay home. Some permanently.

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Post ID: @3xbl+1lXUNMfw

Anyone have insight into what consulting firms they are being paid to think for them and running this show?

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Post ID: @2qii+1lXUNMfw

Maybe spell check your communication Sr Management?

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Post ID: @1pfb+1lXUNMfw

McDonald restaurant's are Franchised so this won't effect your local MC'Ds. This is a corporate layoff.

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Post ID: @nig+1lXUNMfw

Senior management is just chicken nowadays. They don’t have the guts to tell people to their face that they lost their job. This is worse than in the 90’s when at least you could exchange hugs with your coworkers as you were packing up your office. How non-human oriented.
Do it in person. You can temporarily add extra security and remove objects that could be used by very angry and disgruntled employees who take being fired personally.

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Post ID: @qua+1lXUNMfw

I hope they start with Greater Chicago Metro area corporate staff, because at least one suburban McDonald's consistently serves COLD hash browns at all hours of the breakast timeframe.

Switched to Burger King as a result.

Good riddance bad senior management!

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Post ID: @bgy+1lXUNMfw

Here are some "customer problems" you can focus on solving effectively: Your food is low-quality, too expensive, your client-facing staff are rude and lazy, and your "restaurants" are filthy. Fix these problems, and you'll be fine. Haven't you guys been in this business for something like 80 years? How can you not have this figured out by now?

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Post ID: @sik+1lXUNMfw

https://www.businessinsider.com/read-mcdonalds-memo-to-staff-outlining-shift-in-strategy-layoffs-2023-4

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