The real clue that you will start to see now that bonus has been paid, are the internal emails about how employees have informed their managers of their intent to retire or pursue outside opportunities. The language is the same, regardless of the manager sending the email. No ingenuity there.
Exactly what @zqw+1lUf47HP said. This has been the way for years.
I hope they get rid of the low quality, bottom of the barrel people managers. Anyone who's worked elsewhere, knows we are being subjected to absolute junk managers here.
The larger scale is inevitable. The true economy is collapsing.
Those are not layoffs. Those are one off changes (whether voluntary or not, doesn’t matter… they are not large scale cuts).