Official L&D numbers and announcements coming by end of 1st quarter too. Got a glimpse earlier this week at future locations and knowing cuts are coming. Plenty of details unavailable at this time. Huge portion of the dept is outside the future locations so not sure what that truly means for those impacted...
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Ad Services announcements coming 'by the end of 1st Qtr'. Cuts coming to , Mail, Tech Services, Transportation among others but F&S studies keeps delaying announcements. Outsourcing seems inevitable or at least has been moving in that direction. Seems like they have no idea what they are doing, just spin the wheel, see where it lands and hope for the best. An aging dept. so if any type pkgs are offered, most eligible will probably jump ship. Seems like they really want to get rid of 20yr + employees.
I thought I had it bad when I was offered my meager involuntary severance and given my QTD, but in hindsight, I was lucky because I am the only person in my role in my entire city who was affected by this lay-off. This turns out to be one of the unanticipated benefits of being a remote worker.
On the other hand, the people in Bloomington-Normal could very well find themselves competing with hundreds (or thousands, God forbid) of people in similar roles in a much smaller market.
I'm not feeling so sorry for myself anymore.
If I were working in BLM in a role targeted for reduction, I would be interviewing with other companies right now, and I sure wouldn't be waiting around for severance. The severance won't be large enough for people to wait out the surge.
Yes, and these studies have everyone in the department's name with their salary next to it. When "a study" is done and cut the staff count down in a department or eliminate it, they say, "look, we saved so much money on salary/benefits by doing [x, y, or z]!". And that's all the execs and the consultants really care about (without realizing what the real cost of all this BS is).
There are some other numbers they should really care about though...
In response the the corporate studies comment, you are exactly right. They are trying to keep it all hush so no one really sees how widespread this is and what’s happening holistically. Everyone needs to start talking to each other. This is not on a need to know basis. It’s all need to know at this point. Interested to see what this all ends up doing to the local community and businesses here once thousands are job hunting at the same time. There isn’t enough work in Blono to sustain the folks who will be out of jobs.
"In Newark, OH a Maintenance TM is now a Claims TM. Go figure. Would love to know the qualification criteria for that decision."
SCPs.....enough said.
Most corporate departments have structure studies leading to expense cutting and leadership flattening. Bank, Learning & Development, Human Resources, Public Affairs, Human Resources, and Administrative Services at the least have official studied & transitions, in addition to the IT related studies and transformations. The impacts are intentionally not announced widely, to keep how widespread this is hidden. But it is widespread, and even departments without official studies have undergone some unofficial form of the same expense reduction, staffing review, and restructuring.
In Newark, OH a Maintenance TM is now a Claims TM. Go figure. Would love to know the qualification criteria for that decision.
Any rumors about the Bank or Credit Cards? Are they exempt from all this?
Where are the Ad services changes happening?
Folks in Ad Services were given notices too. Yes work is being outsourced. There are externals driving forklifts now. We seem to be relying heavier on vendors moving into the future as opposed to employees.
Transition plans are now in theses dept for 2018
Strategic resources, travel and convention, l&d.
This is fact, not rumors.
Haven’t heard those rumors yet. I have heard there is going to be a shake-up with Ad Services. Rumor is their work is going to be out-sourced.
Wouldn’t there be a WARN report if there were mass layoffs?
“Strategic Resources making cuts.”
They’re the ones responsible for the debacle that is CRI..
Strategic Resources making cuts.
It’s not just claim leadership. Less CS and CAs. This started from the top and making it all the way down. Lost 900k policies last year, We are in a nose dive
Cutting back on Claims leadership and their administrative support. Not on other roles... at least yet that I’ve heard. I havent seen anything posted yet about the general depts, yet I’ve heard some have already received termination dates. What’s really going on. What’s rumor and what’s real? How many thousands of jobs are being lost and what does this really look like? Whole big picture?
If they are cutting back in Claims why would general departments not be a target as well? The only questions is why did it take so long?