Given recent internal company messaging, big cuts will likely be required in the future. Early retirement is step 1, and oddly specific/rigid return to office mandates are step 2. Once everyone has retired or quit, then the landscape will be assessed for layoffs. I highly doubt new reqs will be created for lost jobs. I think the emphasis will be on finding "new, cheaper ways to do things."
Personally, I have no problem with this. I just wish they wouldn't treat employees like clueless children.
Layers of clueless overpaid executives who loved their offices and power took over. Some of which are still there. Or "retired" with a sweetheart deal. It isn't right and they should be exposed for the horrible things they did to this once great and creative company and the thousands of talented people that they let go because they could never admit the real trouble was them. Are they proud of what they did? The real people that deserve to be proud are the ones who came up with, supported, and developed the great products, many of whom have been let go. Nobody can take away from them the remarkable things they accomplished before they were hijacked by the the business people. Whatever revenue Bose generates now is mostly because of the products and small variations based on ideas that originated with the people they disposed of. I've seen nothing new come out from there that even comes close.
The woke narrative is alive and well in easily angered and thus easily manipulated minds :)
As predicted, unable to define "woke." Imaginary marxists running a cabal, controlling the company for some imaginary nefarious imaginary "woke narrative." Real foil fedora stuff, with a few of the obvious code words.
It really has nothing to do with Bose Corporation, the company's current sad state, and the present VERO offer.
Woke bose has it's defenders ! When a rational and logical argument buries the narrative they will play the "you're a racist!" card - it's a clear indication they are mired in the dunning kruger trough of ignorance and will never claw their way out. It's a fact that 50% of humans are incapable of critical thought while many of the other 50% are compromised by being too smart in 1 field and using that as leverage to fool themselves into thinking they are smart across the board. Again, the woke narrative is alive at bose and like all other companies being extorted by marxist groups, it does zero to improve the bottom line and is a complete and utter waste of resources.
"Don't be easily manipulated by people who feel it's their job to be offended."
The person constantly whingeing about "woke" is the one who feels it's his job to be offended. Offended by dark skin, offended by women, probably more. People who complain about "woke" are generally white male bigots, and they usually can't define "woke" without referring to people who are female and-or dark skinned.
The company was founded by a man named Amar Bose, who had brown skin. Since his death, the Chairman of the Board has been white, and the company has been flushing itself down the drain. "Woke" this, pal.
I took the 2nd early retirement about 6 yrs ago mostly because I could see the future exactly as it has unfolded. Bose had not developed anything really special for years before I retired and that is the reason for their downfall. Working in new product development we would question "why" are we doing this project and would get frustrated that upper management never seemed to listened. Dr. Bose was a visionary, made everyone feel important and people felt they had a voice. Most of upper management after his passed seemed more concerned about their status and path to move up.
Welp...looks like more C0VID lockdowns are coming soon. Hope you guys are secure wherever you are or wherever you land.
It is clear the RTO is just the first step of a layoff. People have been shown the door in the PRO side and they are trying to bring a new VPE to tighten the screws. Do more with less. Q2 preliminary results are not good. Mood is at rock bottom.
Equity means the janitor can be the CEO ...he just needs some extra help - Nut Case!
Diversity for the sake of diversity is a straw man argument - Don't be easily manipulated by people who feel it's their job to be offended. Equal opportunity is all you need skipper.
This whole "woke" person who keeps complaining doesn't get it- diversity doesn't hurt anyone. For the longest time Bose was that stuffy brand that your old white grandparents had. They tried to show they are affordable and cool, so diversifying hurts nothing.
What is destroying Bose is its pi-s poor products- products that have had recalls/quality issues and being lackluster.
The company is a woke joke now - run by a nobody...if you're the last to leave grab the flag.
Shame Bose was another old name roped by hucksters and opportunists.
Anonymous wrote: "RTO will be needed to create the work culture required to actually make it."
I'm thinking that ship has already sailed. Bose HAD that culture, and it was destroyed by one management regime after another at the behest of Bain and McKenzie acolytes
RTO will be needed to create the work culture required to actually make it. So I get it. Also, Bose trends to follow some of the other large companies on this stuff… big companies are trending back to the office… su-k it up buttercup
If I were Lila, RTO is not the hill I would choose to die on.
If you've been offered the VERO, TAKE IT!!! You retirement payout will be based on current interest rates (it's an annuity calculated at retirement time), not like those that had to retire after the 2020 layoffs when interest rates were near zero.
non-compliance to the RTO mandate likely results in being fired - quite an underhanded and unseemly way of reducing the next round of layoffs after, for the 3rd time, they will say there wasn't enough who took VERO