Anyone else hearing over 1,200 overstaffed roles to be cut in Bloomington?
Where exactly did this number come from? This seems to me way too high. I know we are looking at mass layoffs but is it really going to be that bad? This seems more like rumor gone wild than anything...
Pretty sure they know numbers and roles of analysts for every team. They'll finalize the management in the next couple weeks and then they'll get to 'pick' their reconfigured teams. There are a lot of situations and I don't think there's going to be a single way to solve it. Some teams aren't affected, others are being totally relocated, many are co-located and can keep some analysts
The big questions are what tools are these managers going to have. Buyouts? Relocation? Severance?
Relo is going to be limited. Offered to a small amount for some teams and not at all to others
There's going to be a lot of job postings and lots of applications for them. Heck, we may all be having to apply to our own job
For now I'll just begrudgingly update the transition documents they've been pushing on us
Well said. Nothing to do but wait. In the absence of information, we just have to keep on doing whatever it is we do.
I do, however, wish leadership would just stop with the messages until they are ready to tell me definitively if I will continue to have a job or not. All these videos and message points and "IT Transformation Updates" accomplish nothing. They convey no useful information, and just get everyone all spun up. If anyone is monitoring this site, i would like to ask them to SHUT UP and STOP TALKING about it until you can give us actual information we can use to plan our futures.
Unfortunately I believe it will be a very large reduction in analyst. I think the senior leadership is trying to finalize plans on how to execute it. As we all know Senior executives have bodyguards due to the tension in our good Ole town. I think that tension may be giving them pause on their Communication strategy in systems for pro/tech. Still the numbers are probably finalized. I say that from looking at the all the info that has come straight from Farrington thus far. There is nothing to do but chill out and wait. I refuse to let them make my anxiety go through the roof. Well not continuously anyway
My manager mentioned to us that the managers will be told of their fate next week. Likely the 15th. I would imagine the announcement will follow fairly soon after.
There's a delay since some of the managers went out and got jobs on their own.
Then the scariest part can commence..what to do with all the analysts..
We're hearing that 7% IT headcount decrease here in Bloomington for Systems.
Are managers slated for cuts this week?
Hey, you’ve seen the swirls folks. Each bigger and more wasteful than the previous. Work environment, domain, ecs, cde....
this will be the greatest swirl of all. A magnus opus of idiocy and nepotism and waste by the chattering narcissists that infest management.
From multiple independent sources, i am hearing anywhere from 1200-1700 reduction from ET in Bloomington. However, i don't think they will be announcing or executing that next week, as one poster said. Look for them to come out with nonsense "office preference" surveys maybe in late March, then a few months to process those and line up people in slots like a giant Tetris game. That's what they have been doing with managers for several months, and they still haven't announced the results of that yet. Once that is done and the leadership ranks are decided on, they will repeat the entire ugly process for the Pro/tech level.
They say more info coming in March, but we've been hearing that "we'll tell you more next month" since December. I would not be expecting anyone to know anything until late summer, and given the glacial pace of the decision making so far, would not imagine any large scale bloodletting to occur before year-end 2018.
But I could be wrong, I've been wrong before. Who knows?
Are these numbers referring to IT positions? Is the rumor still to announce this week?
Speaking as someone in a Hub, I can tell u I have no allegiance to this company. I have been here 5 years and I can tell you from my 1st month this company doesn't do their due diligence and jump head first and then have to constantly revamp changes. Training was a joke, unqualified management, work processes play it by ear, constant shift of supervisors that should be fired to other positions. I admit I got comfortable and the benefits USED to be awesome. I have had 10 glorified babysitters in this time. Only 1 was knowledgeable and could actually do any of the work and was a true supervisor. Transparency is a word that is tossed around but is far from the truth. The building we are in is a deathtrap and I will be reporting it to OSHA. During extreme inclement weather, no consideration is given to employee welfare, especially when work from home capability is there. I watch fellow employees get on the 1 elevator out of 6 that works with the same defeated expression in their eyes everyday. Many are ppl with 20+ yrs in the company. It breaks my heart to see such good ppl looking hopeless. To say morale is low is an understatement. I won't bash the company any further. We r all intelligent and can see the writing on the wall. Personally, I am not going down with the ship. I have to do what's best for me and my family. The corporate powers that be will be doing that without any allegiance to me. So yes, I will leave as soon as line up an opportunity that benefits me. State Farm salaries were never on par with other companies here, it was the benefits (time off, etc) that set them apart, now with that change it is really 👎👎. Good luck to everyone. Stop drinking the Kool-aid before it's too late.
I have heard 1600 people will be cut. Not sure where that number came from and it might not be accurate.
I heard the IT cuts are coming next week. No one is safe.
Systems as a whole is shrinking in numbers and the percentage of Systems in BLM will shrink..So I would expect BLM Systems to take a pretty big cut number wise
How they get there is the question...a large majority of people I'm in contact with aren't interested in moving..many are too close to retirement, have families they don't want to uproot/move away from, or have spouses that work here and are slated to be located in different locations..
I'm curious how willing those already in the hubs are willing to relocate if necessary. The impression that I get is that people there don't have the allegiance to SF that BLM employees do, and would just go across the street and get a job
Supposedly another round of cuts in external associates is coming soon...they could nearly make the numbers if they did serious cuts there
If they offer some kind of severance/buyouts, I think a surprising number of people would take it rather than move, especially if they're within a few years of retirement
There are that many impacted in ET alone not even considering the rest of the departments. This number is very real.
Yes. List your house now!
Have not heard a number. I don't think that number is completely off the charts. From initial talk on this site and in town and from what Farrington initially said there will be significant reduction in Bloomington.