Thread regarding Thomson Reuters layoffs

When will management wake up?

The Improve quality crazy cycle.

Client complains about an issue.

Special projects are created to satisfy client and improve technical tool.

Multiple projects thrown at workers already overworked.

Headcount NEVER increased because they don't have resources!

(Layoff team members)

Projects further added to remaining team.

QUALITY SUFFERS and tool goes further downhill.

When will management wake up?

Even though this post by @XANH41R-1dtlx is a reply to another thread that I reposted, and therefore is related to a specific topic, It can be applied to paint a picture of how things are conducted at TR in general.

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The question is when you going wake up.

Then company is already sinking!

Management isn’t going to wake up. All they care about is cutting costs. The stock is the only thing that matters. Quality doesn’t matter.

Also, in many cases the wrong people were laid off and retained. There are a couple people in my group who run the division like their own fiefdoms coordinating their talking points to upper management, telling staff never to talk to consultants, working on various unsuccessful projects (that are now redundant anyways) etc. They have been retained and essentially handed sinecures.

The funniest/saddest thing is the smug attitude that "we're making things better!" How does laying people off make things simpler and faster for the people left?

The whole "flattening" of the organization made things more complicated. We have a bunch of managers who are now managing way too many people and have no idea what's going on...and no time to figure it out. Plus, we have to waste time in training to learn "new ways of working" and new buzzwords (can you say OKRs?).

The layoffs and the flattening were ways to save money. JUST OWN IT. Just say upper management wants to cut costs and they don't want to decrease (or not increase) their own salaries to do it. Don't tell us that "reducing head count" is actually a good thing that helps us.

We're not stupid.

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