Author: David Reyes

The Kellogg’s plant on 96th and F Streets in Omaha, which has been producing boxes of Frosted Flakes and Froot Loops since 1942, when Americans were still eating cereal for breakfast without much thought, has a subtly depressing quality. It is spread across three buildings and is almost 900,000 square feet in size. It has survived decades of shifting consumer preferences, corporate mergers, and economic cycles. It will be empty by the middle of August. The final layoff schedule for WK Kellogg Co.’s Omaha facility has been confirmed, and the figures are precise enough to be painful. Between July 20 and…

You are not invited to a meeting that is currently taking place in an office with glass walls. A slide is being presented by someone. There is a percentage on it. It is a very high percentage. The number of people whose jobs are being reconsidered is a quieter, more unsettling figure that appears somewhere in the presentation’s subtext. One of the largest consulting firms in the world, Mercer, recently gave a face to what many employees have been feeling for months. The results of its 2026 Global Talent Trends report, which polled over 1,650 HR professionals and 825 C-suite…

When people realize that a building won’t look the same in a few months, a certain kind of silence descends upon it. The atmosphere has most likely changed since April, when PNC Bank filed a WARN notice with the state confirming that 777 employees would be out of work by June 30. However, the former FirstBank headquarters at 12345 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood is still operational, with staff still pulling into the lot every morning. A deal that was publicly presented as a partnership and a merger of complementary strengths is now reaching the point that no one mentioned…

During mass layoffs, a specific type of corporate language emerges. terms like “streamline,” “complexity,” and “key bets.” In his email to employees on May 20, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi used them all to notify about 3,000 workers that their positions would be eliminated. 17% of the company’s worldwide workforce. Absent. Additionally, the stock fell by almost 5% that morning, which was somewhat more truthful than the memo. In particular, 772 employees are affected by the Intuit California Nevada layoffs, which were divided between two WARN Act filings that were submitted to state authorities on the same day that the internal…

Walking by a T-Mobile store these days is almost unsettling; the window displays and bright magenta signage are still there, but the energy inside is noticeably lower than it was in the past. fewer employees. Fewer patrons are staying to inquire. Additionally, in some places, the shutters were completely removed—not because the store was failing, but rather because the business decided it was worthwhile to pursue a different kind of future. That’s what’s unsettling. Even T-Mobile’s own employees have been taken aback by the company’s rapid growth since Srini Gopalan became CEO in November 2025. Account executives and sales managers,…

There is a certain type of business that maintains global operations without ever becoming well-known. Among them is Amdocs. The majority of people have never entered that name into a search engine. However, there’s a good chance Amdocs was processing your phone bill in the background if you’ve used a streaming service, called customer service, or received a bill from any major telecom provider in the last 20 years. In enterprise software, this invisibility is practically a source of pride. Until, of course, a business begins laying off thousands of employees, at which point inquiries begin. Ra’anana is producing a…

After a Thursday earnings call, there is a specific type of silence that occurs when the numbers appear to be in order, but the atmosphere in the room conveys a different message. That was about Sentinel’s surroundings. The cybersecurity company announced last week that it was laying off 8% of its full-time employees at the same time that it reported its first annual revenue of $1 billion. On paper, it shouldn’t be so difficult for those two events to coexist. They actually did. The layoffs, which affected about 230 out of about 3,000 employees, were presented by CEO Tomer Weingarten…

Cutting a company’s own partners has a subtly devastating effect. Partners, not analysts or associates. the individuals whose names are, in theory, the product. It wasn’t just a headcount adjustment when Perella Weinberg Partners announced on May 27 that it would cut its workforce by about 10%, including about a dozen of its roughly 81 partners. To anyone listening, it seemed to be a declaration about the company’s current state as opposed to its original goals. Built on the reputations of Joseph Perella, a dealmaker who had already helped define an era at First Boston and Morgan Stanley, and Peter…

You get a strange feeling when you stand outside the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg on a weekday afternoon. The parking lots are still occupied, the cranes are still there, and the signage is still shining. However, the atmosphere has changed in a way subtler than vacant assembly lines. Employees move slightly differently; their heads are a little lower, and their conversations are a little shorter. People who are aware that the ground beneath them is no longer solid exhibit this specific body language. As part of its rationalization program, Volkswagen has announced plans to eliminate 35,000 jobs, including 15,000 in…

The number eight contains a specific form of corporate cruelty. Not eight days, not eight weeks’ notice. Eight minutes. At least one support engineer who spoke to BetaKit after the company’s simultaneous cuts in the US, Canada, and India in March 2026 said that’s how long it took OpenText to end a seventeen-year career. Not even a proper farewell was given to the employee. It is said that until the calls were completed, their direct manager was unaware of who was being fired. In late March, OpenText, an information management company with headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo, laid off about 4% of…