Even when layoffs are not a constant threat - which, lets face it, is nearly never - the working environment at Thomson Reuters is so toxic that stress and anxiety have become synonyms with being employed here.
Bosses treat employees like c-ap, more layoffs forces all of us who remain to do more and more work for same pay, benefits get cut all the time...
Those who were laid off are actually the lucky ones, when I think about it now...
This is YhAPoAk-jfy posting again. At my location all three categories had a few layoffs, but they weren't the majority. Not sure about some of the larger offices, though, because everything was so secretive. I didn't even hear about many of the people who got laid off at my own office until after I was gone, too. I eventually found out through the grapevine, aka conversations with my former co-workers who weren't laid off and noticed people were "missing." On the plus side I received a good severance package, but that doesn't change the fact that it was an extremely poorly handled layoff process all around.
On a personal note, this is the first time I've ever been laid off in a lengthy career, so take the following with a grain of salt and the knowledge that it's taken me a while to get past my anger, disillusionment, and feelings of betrayal (and they still surface at times, but much less often lately).
I worked at TR for more than a decade and had an excellent record and reputation among my co-workers. However, that clearly meant nothing to the higher-ups who decided to eliminate our (non-tech) jobs and institute a Hunger Games-style competition for new jobs in a reorganized department where many of the "winners" had been pre-determined even before the jobs were posted. As a result, if I do manage to find another position I know to never fully trust an employer again.
So I echo what another poster said in a different thread: If you're young and don't mind uncertainty, TR might be a good fit on the tech side. However, if you're an older worker I would not recommend TR unless you're financially set and just want a job to keep yourself busy.
How is TR for tech roles? Are engineers, developers and product managers getting laid off at “hubs”?
As someone who got laid off in December and is still having problems finding a job (although I have to qualify that by saying I'm north of 60, which could be part of the problem), there are days I disagree with the "lucky" tag. Then I talk to my co-workers who are still at TR and I think I might be lucky after all, given the chaos left behind (too many people laid off, more people still leaving, so not enough people to do the jobs, no one knows who's doing what in the new "Agile" world--you know, the usual).