Sabre will avoid press by doing incremental layoffs avoiding the WARN notification to State Workforce Commissions/Departments. The WARN Act is considered when a mass layoff is a reduction in force resulting in job loss at a single employment site for 500 or more full-time employees, or
50 to 499 full-time employees, if the number of employees laid off makes up at least 33% of the employer’s active workforce by location. In this case, HDQ in Southlake. Doing a mass layoff requires 60 day notice. So, unless Sabre plans on a layoff of this magnitude, it will not be required to be reported, thus positioning it as "managing to the business." This seems more probable because if Sabre is having business issues in certain units, they will trickle people out the door. Typically, high revenue generating employees are spared. High cost (compensation, medical benefits, etc.) could be high on the list. Good luck to all and please know that there is life after Sabre. Trust me.
This was posted by @QoTWKta-1ppz, but it's right on the money. I don't think we'll have one big layoff any time soon, but we'll have plenty of smaller ones as the time goes by. I think this is now our reality at Sabre.