Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

LR in Jan-Feb

Same source as the one who had predicted LRs in August and then in November says VP and SED in UKI have requested names for Jan-Feb timeline. Target is sales .

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What's weird is that they are forcing good employees to be on pip performance improvement plan!
This way they are covered legally and pay less Severance. Ofcourse while ruining the employee reputation

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Post ID: @ciyu+1q12jl7f

@bmxv+1q12jl7f any idea on how big a layoff? 5%, 10%…

I suspected this for while as our SSED has been shiftier than usual lately. Normally he’d be raving and ranting at least a month before Christmas making our UKI market sound like his uncle’s business. But not that much this year.

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Post ID: @bjxt+1q12jl7f

Oh and it's everywhere not just sales.
Employee relations confirming this.

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Post ID: @bilz+1q12jl7f

I am employee relations at Cisco and contributing to help others here.
Yes massive layoff in January February is confirmed by EVPs.
Employees are/will be asked to resign or to go on a PIP.
You can't actually refuse a pip so once it's there you are considered fired eventually regardless of what you do and will never be hired again by Cisco.
It's unethical and you should sue the company asap.

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Post ID: @bmxv+1q12jl7f

@5uma+1q12jl7f GES is the enterprise segment in sales

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Post ID: @6nxj+1q12jl7f

@4fnp+1q12jl7f What’s GES? I am working for Cisco for over 2 years now and still get lost in the sea of acronyms! Some acronyms appear to be used more in the U.S. than here across the pond.

Agree that something is coming. The official mouthpieces in the form of excel-sheet clicking SEMs and SEDs have gone dangerously quiet lately.

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Post ID: @5uma+1q12jl7f

Was told Sales to be hit very hard with GES being heavily impacted.

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Post ID: @4fnp+1q12jl7f

If it’s going to be Jan/Feb, then the names would be already done.
Something is definitely coming, the expense controls and opex cutbacks I’m seeing are unprecedented. It’s clear that an LR isn’t far away.

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Post ID: @4edf+1q12jl7f

Rolling layoffs totaling 20,000 beginning end of January to get ready for Splunk employees

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Post ID: @1srq+1q12jl7f

“ If customers no want the. Why so many billions?”

From a third world mentality who never seen money before

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Post ID: @1hls+1q12jl7f

"If customers no want the. Why so many billions?"

Once more and this time in English please

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Post ID: @1plw+1q12jl7f

If customers no want the. Why so many billions?

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Post ID: @1zqb+1q12jl7f

Products no one wants.

Just in time for the holidays.

"The Land of Misfit Toys"

Thanks Santa!

Happy LR Rudolf!

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Post ID: @1oiw+1q12jl7f

telling lies again

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Post ID: @1rop+1q12jl7f

not just sales, but TAC

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Post ID: @1bdb+1q12jl7f

good time to chop fats, even after unloading fats, slogans and noises from CR are here for temporary, won't able to sustain Cisco to survive.

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Post ID: @ppb+1q12jl7f

if you have products customers don't want, no matter how you are selling them, they won't get sold, this is true to most of the Cisco product lines. I seen customers buying products from different vendors like these vendors are selling cake. Please do not blame on sales, blame on ELT, Engineering, product management, project management. Fire multilayer PPT processors in between.

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Post ID: @pcj+1q12jl7f

We heard not only sales

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