Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

They are not even trying to fix the situation

HON management has no interest. There is more money to be made by driving the company into the ground. Actually leading and managing a company is hard work, and a task to which none of the AERO ALT are qualified or able to do. Sell off product lines, get bonuses. RIF employees, cook books, get bonuses. That's the name of the game at HON. Nothing else. Extract all the value till there is none to be had then discard the corpse.

I've seen this and thought it was an excellent point: why would management even try to bring Honeywell back to its former glory when for them, it is s much more profitable to do the opposite? We pay with our jobs, they pocket the bonuses, it's a clear win for one side.

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Having layoffs is different than a reorganization or a new better way. IN preparation of the new _ ? Please inform 1zqe. I am uninformed.

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Post ID: @1ybo+Oqm8xGk

Really very few open reqs. What is the new bright future of HON? Does anyone know of new top line growth products? Is anyone working on development of new products? Id like to know. We all know the old products dont last forever. I think Hon future looks a lot like IBM and HP. oh and GE.

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Post ID: @1thc+Oqm8xGk

"no intention of getting 'new blood'"??? There are open reqs, new people being hired, and not just in/from India or college students. There is definitely new blood being trickled in. And I think the intention is getting more, once the stagnation finally seeps away. There is still a lot of reorganizing going on as well, in preparation for the new. I think you must be uninformed, or completely unaware and you yourself must be on the way to down and out.

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Post ID: @1zqe+Oqm8xGk

"it must evolve and churn its workforce with new blood and new ideas"

There's no intention of getting "new blood" (Indians?) and there are no new ideas, only "me-too" ideas already ventured into by the likes of IBM, HP and other stagnant has-been companies who are going for the latest trend, and are not executing well because they don't want to invest into the future while looting, and don't hire management who care to manage big development projects. Hiring "yes-men" is not going to advance anything.

So the only way is down and out.

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Post ID: @1oqf+Oqm8xGk

I haven't heard anyone say Management, Leadership, Corporate, et. al. are trying to bring Honeywell back to its former glory. I think that's a huge misconception and would be utterly pointless anyway. Honeywell was apparently a great company to work for in the 80s-90s, right? The world has far advanced past any technology or product we were producing then. I disagree with how it's being managed now, but I can see a valid point in breaking it completely down to rebuild into something new (or break it into pieces, sell them off to become something new, whatever). Unfortunately, that has obviously affected our aging workforce. It was a necessary evil for the most part because so many employees had become complacent and feeling entitled, just because they had never worked anywhere else and had been here for umpteen years. And a lot of them were not interested in moving to something new, afraid of change, too lazy, or just too comfortable with what they had known so for long (this has happened amongst mankind since the beginning of time, let's face it). But, Honeywell is a company, not a family, not a religion, not a club. in order for a company to survive, it must evolve and churn its workforce with new blood and new ideas. We may not like it, but in order for our own sanity and successes, we must not be afraid of change. I'm sure I've ruffled some feathers. But if it was your own company, would you want it to remain stagnant? And no, I'm not Management, I'm not HR, etc. I am a peon with a high IQ and good grasp of the world.

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