#backfill

My manager keeps promising to fill open roles but nothing ever happens. We are drowning in work and every month it is the same story about help that never arrives.

We're desperate to backfill some roles, but no luck for nearly six months. There's always some reason why "not right now." What's going on? Is there an official hiring freeze we don't know about?

Heard today that Schwab is going to discontinue hiring in the US and all backfills and future roles will go to GCC. Has anyone else heard this?

It’s all US managers with increasingly international teams. We have no “bench” if anyone in the US leaves, which is vital since those of us in the US are doing more complex work and in other countries it’s more backoffice tasks.

Theres no longterm strategy. We’re all in on the short term profits boosts. It’s gonna bite us longterm, but the executives making those decisions will cash out and be long gone by then.

Any other clubs that lose people find out that they aren’t being replaced ? We lost a receiver, a day forklift driver and someone in freezer cooler .. we were told they were not getting replaced .. yet the F/c now has a merch over there which has left the floor short .. then they take a lift driver over there which make the floor short again.. why are we not replacing people .. all they are doing is stressing everyone out because we still have to do the job yet we are running out butts off like crazy while our managers get a huge pay raise to still sit in the office or walk around the club with their coffee cups barking out orders of how we aren’t getting enough done . Home office needs to get their heads out of their butts and realize it isn’t the mangers keeping your clubs going … it is the associates u are treating badly

HR leaders are confirming the new reality. F5 is trading years of expertise for these external "strategic" hires. Long-term employees across various departments are just being phased out with no announcement or acknowledgment of what they built. Agencies are now reaching out for positions that don’t even appear vacant or aren't posted on the F5 Careers site. These roles are being backfilled by people with zero history regarding the tech or the culture. If you have high tenure, your experience is a liability now instead of an asset. "Human-First" looks great on a slide deck, but it’s taking a backseat to margin targets while the culture evaporates in real-time.

Has anyone else noticed colleagues just going silent? Is there anyone you haven't heard from in a while, even if they're still showing up in the directory?

Nike has just posted multiple openings at IRC to backfill the roles that were laid off.
So, in other words, it was not a layoff, but simply outsourcing.

For years now, every layoff round has taken either a core role or someone who was holding the whole team together. And nothing ever gets backfilled. No follow-up, no acknowledgment of the gaps. It's like leadership wants teams to fall apart. I get that they're just lazy number-crunchers, but even then, this makes no sense.

https://www.salary.com/research/executive-compensation/nike-inc-cl-b-executive-salary

How does MF stay and keep earning? So glad nasty HON is gone. Backfill not necessary. Big savings there.

If so, when? Confused after some recent announcements. Specifically upstream.

So many positions are getting filled - a bunch of people will not be in their current jobs (backfill already announced) …where are they going. Part of the new org ?

Finance, IT and HR have 40-50% headcount reduction targets by 2030. Expect 5-10% "performance" cuts each year, very few backfills and a ROM 2028-2029.

We can easily dispatch another 30% and it will still function. There are too many coasters, old timers sitting there doing nothing. Too much dead weights. Americans are lazy.

My team is down to nothing. One more loss and the whole thing collapses. Two roles were highly specialized. Never backfilled, never even discussed. Workload's a mess, skills are missing, and no one cares. Okay, fine, cut if you must. But could there at least be some thought behind it? Or maybe fix things afterward for once?

Is it just us, or is the hiring ban only 'optional' for certain teams? Anyone heard when they’re planning to unblock reqs? It's a nightmare now. We can't replace leavers

It's like everyone forgets once the layoffs are done. There's only so much the rest of us can absorb, and some things just can't be picked up at all. There's never any follow-up, no real attempt to readjust after the cuts, and zero attention to the important work that's simply not getting done anymore.

Hearing lots of positions will be cut starting from today and back filled with positions in India. Looks like a difficult time ahead for
Everyone

Is anyone seeing/ hearing of positions being backfilled with contractors yet? I was assuming that will not pick up until the new fiscal year, But have heard of some area's already in motion.

I have about 2 months to go due to an agreement to allow for a backfill to be familiarized with the role. RTO was the deal-breaker but not for the reason the whiners complain about. Prior to Covid my team came to the office 1 day each month. Not the same day. I've been on this team for 13 years and I had never seen the entire team in the office until our 5 day RTO began 16 months ago. RTO has shown me that I work with some of the laziest people in all of AT&T. WFH hid all of that. 2 weeks ago I decided retirement would be the only change that would provide me with an immediate quality of life improvement. There is not much within AT&T that is not broken, some beyond repair.

We have key positions that need to be backfilled that have been open for over a year now. Are we not hiring at all or is this just our manager not giving a damn to fight for it?

Thought they were getting a rid of these roles like associate coaches with all the layoffs, just to start posting them again?

Three team members left months ago with no replacement in sight. Their responsibilities have been distributed among the rest of us, and it seems leadership views this as a permanent solution. Is there anything we can do to force them to hire some people, because we're close to our breaking point?

Any word on back office teams in Consumer Group like Frontline Insights or Systems? East Coast here but no “Org Update” on my calendar yet!

15$ plus an hour no degree needed. Now you know how we are backfilling all the management positions recently Rifed!

How’s it looking on your team lately? On mine, people keep quietly disappearing and backfills aren’t happening, so the rest of us just absorb the work and move on like it’s normal.

We were explicitly told when someone quits they will not be replaced. I’m a hometown store.

I’m exhausted from hearing the same promises over and over again about backfilling positions that never actually get filled. We’re overloaded, the work keeps piling up, and every month we’re told help is coming, but it never does. Add in the empty promotion talk, and it’s getting harder to stay quiet.

I’ve accepted that I may never get my old role back — that’s part of how corporate reorganizations work. But what hurts isn’t losing the job. It’s how it happened.

I was RIF’d despite strong performance and ongoing contributions, while some “eliminated” roles were quietly backfilled almost immediately. Even my own position, is now being filled again. Saving the favourites. That doesn’t feel like a business decision — it feels like a leadership decision.

When merit isn’t the driver, trust breaks. Employees begin to wonder if favoritism or toxic leadership played a bigger role in who stayed and who went. In a company this large, that’s dangerous. Without accountability at the SD level and above, a culture like this can take root at the market level and eventually hurt the entire organization.

This isn’t about wanting my job back — it’s about acknowledging a pattern that shouldn’t be ignored. Unfair layoffs don’t just impact people; they erode the foundation of the company itself.

I am beginning to hear rumblings of some of the front line sales reps who were laid off being backfilled as early Q1. Primarily the VBG client execs, public sector and sled CEs, SAMs, and the SMB reps who were just laid off. It’s sounding like they laid off who they perceive as low performers only to be backfilling their positions for the same or similar territory come Q1.

I was part of the layoff in October, and I noticed today my position along with a couple others laid off on my team have been posted on Target’s career page. They made some slight adjustments but it is almost exactly the job I was laid off from. Has anyone else seen this or have any advice? It’s a little hurtful to be backfilled less than 2 months after being laid off…

the cuts were too deep and haphazard, with not enough precision or thought given to the reality of the situation.
Now the back-peddling and re-hiring will soon begin in order to get things back on track.

I understand tools like Copilot help pick up the pieces. But, That’s insane to say.

6% headcount reduction ask by end of q1 2026 acrossthe board. YE process used to identify along with freeze on any new backfill requests from November 1st and retirements.. Usual stuff combination of all

Someone quits and months go by before they backfill the role, leaving the rest of us to drown in extra work. Do they think people can just do two jobs forever?

Anyone qualify for ERP but did not get the opportunity because your role is too “critical”? Want to talk as backfills are taking place for those that were offered ERP and accepted because THEIR roles are deemed critical.