With decisions centralising and more governance and finance leadership coming in, what outcomes have people seen in similar situations — tighter oversight only, portfolio moves, or does this usually end in restructuring and layoffs?

Yet another talented colleague who was hired in the remote-first era has left. They couldn't get promoted without agreeing to move to Minnesota. They were hired in the "Work Your Way is permanent!" era, and were assured during the hiring process that... — read more 

Is anyone else noticing that the recent hires seem totally unprepared? They don't have the skills, they don't seem motivated, and we're spending all our time training them on basics they should already know. Can we get some competent new hires... — read more 

Does anyone have any details on this? There's a formal meeting about it tomorrow evidently.

2 plant closings announced in the past few weeks. What plant will be next?

My take is that Services & Strategy is the most useless area of IT thanks to the SVP that Smurphy hired (surprise surprise). All they have done is introduced a dumpster fire of a process to "manage" demand and a half-baked attempt to prepare for RTO... — read more 

This company is failing. If you have any other options, you should take them immediately. There's no future here.

Still no news of AIP payout quantum? Whats taking them so long to share with the employees?? Hmm.

Anybody else offended by the latest and greatest training. It’s kinda gross! I’m offended.

I'm so tired from doing too much work for no reward that I'd see being cut as a blessing. Bring it on, I say.

Just heard that SIBG went into a hiring freeze in January. Widespread or just SIBG?

It hasn't been announced yet, but the writing is on the wall. I'm not sad to see him go; he's a terrible leader and generally incompetent, but now we're likely to report to his self-serving lackey. Out of the frying pan, into a similar frying... — read more 

Can confirm the Detroit plant received shut down notice. Any other plants?

I'm curious what the most outrageous thing is to happen to you or that you experienced at 3M?

Pretty clear Bill only cares about share price. He gets a question about ICE and he just waffles and rambles about how we need to be calm. He gets a question about culture and he barfs out a word salad about safety.

What's happening with TEBG? Heard of a re-org for the marketers. Does this mean layoffs/restructure?

Welcome to 3M

Looks like getting beaten down

There was some talk about February, if I remember correctly, has there been any more mentions of that?

Hearing of several one-off layoffs. One person in a department vanishes. ESC. Seems like a week ago was a layoff week. Labs are adding people, ESC is tossing people. Discouraging. Frustrating. What are other people hearing? I can count 5 in... — read more 

Got my fkn 2 and tons of BS from my manager. Post your result if you want

I've heard from several corp. colleagues that this movo company has been contracted by 3M. Here's the website: https://movo.co/ If so, this would mean all trust is gone. Can someone comment if this is true?

Springfield just voted to unionize with USW. Congratulations to everyone there, I hope the other non-union plants soon follow suit.

The veep of corporate environment and his analyst are certified donkeys. Operations and maintenance now have one standard for safety while lab personnel have another. The double standard is bad enough but the actual standard is stupid as well. This... — read more 

Any rough ideas on AIP this year? with tariffs dominating the profit margin but still had profits curious if AIP will be good this year or if they'll dip it with taxes to blame.

Lately, it’s like I’m being pushed out without anyone saying it outright. Whenever I ask questions about a process, I get shut down and told to just figure it out. I’m not given the same time to learn new tasks as others, and when I flagged a... — read more 

Anyone would care to chime in with a prediction about potential 3M layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

Perhaps the final coup de grace from the (fall of the) Roman Empire. Mikey got rid of a beloved retreat. BB must need the money for more share buy backs. At least the guy who bought it seems to love vacationing in northern Minnesota. It would... — read more 

Please give the money to charity in the future instead of insulting your employees who have delivered everything for the company.

After a lot of thinking, I've accepted an offer from a new company. It was tough, but the layoffs and lack of any real path forward here made the choice clearer. I'm really looking forward to a fresh start where I can actually focus on doing good... — read more 

How is the "new & improved" rating process going for my fellow managers? Nothing like robbing Peter to pay Paul. How is this not a process filled with managers playing favorites? It is the most subjective process ever, and the end result will be a... — read more 

Has anyone actually heard from leadership (your boss, VPs, Presidents, etc) about the VoE survey at all? They published a high-level review of the results and promised to talk about it with us, and here we are months later without a single word... — read more 

Did anybody realize last week's layoffs were coming? For me, it completely came out of the blue. Now I'm even more nervous that it can happen any day without warning, and it's not helping my mental health at all.

Town hall this morning announced that we're going to combine IBO and the GSCs, and that we will eliminate some redundancies. Buckle up, it's time for another round of musical chairs aboard the RMS Titanic.

The fanatical obsession with meeting next quarter's numbers to mollify Wall Street is diametrically opposed to being a strong innovation company. The linkage between end customers and CRL and Divisions was very strong for decades. It covered all... — read more 

After the most recent planning town hall, I’ve never felt more unmotivated working for 3M. SVP of planning is woefully under-qualified to be leading this global organization. The future is NOT bright at 3M with him in charge.

Hearing Friday will be some layoffs. Anyone else?

Learning about AI cameras from VIVA Engage. Does your plant have them? What do they do?

3M has been one of the biggest examples of nepotism and favoritism in terms of career growth i have ever seen. How many cases are there of a vp’s nephew getting regular promotions or an execs son or family member becoming a vp? Too many to count!