#roleelimination

Cengage has gone so far down hill in my 15 years with the company. I used to feel like they actually cared about their employees. I am no longer proud to work here. Why are we not paying a livable wage? Why are we expecting so much out of people who make equal to someone making your fast food order?
What happened to company picnics and showing appreciation to your employees during the busiest time of year? WHY ARE ELEVATE POINTS SO HARD TO GET??? Then when you do get some the amount is just offensive. Cengage eliminated some very important roles and everyone left after is expected to just stay positive and figure it out. What happened to white glove service? Why is there no support or true leadership for the employees? PAY US MORE. stop eliminating roles just to bring people back with a new title and less pay. The customer support over seas is not working either. Bring the jobs back to the US. This company is just getting worse and worse by the day.

Team,

Today is a difficult day for all of us at Target. Earlier this morning, I shared with team members whose roles are being eliminated that today is their last day of work.

For the group receiving this email, you and your role remain at the company.

These are incredibly hard decisions and today carries enormous weight for everyone – especially our colleagues who are leaving. We’re committed to supporting all departing team members as they make this transition, including severance packages, benefits, career services and well-being resources.

These changes aren’t easy. And we know they’re necessary to reduce complexity, remove barriers and create the clarity and speed we need to grow and better serve our guests. To get there, we’ll need to continue the change – working in different ways, with renewed focus and effectiveness to deliver for our guests as we move into Q4.

In the next day, you’ll hear from your leader to learn what these changes mean for your team specifically and how to move through the next few weeks. We’ll all need to balance adjusting to what’s new, while keeping absolute focus on the business-critical work.

We will continue to stay anchored in our culture and move forward with purpose – keeping the guest at the center of what we do. I’m confident that, together, we will build a Target that’s positioned to win and grow well into the future.

With gratitude,
Melissa

The next position to go will be people leads.

Anyone else?
I've read several posts here and elsewhere that Cigna-Evernorth-Express Scripts Layoffs in first and second quarter of 2025 targeted employees with open, active, or recently returned FMLA. I was told job elimination. I was given 2.5 month with LHH but could never get communication from Rep for job postings. Spoke to co-workers in positions I applied that were hiring managers and they never received my application. There also seems to be several people over 40, within months of 20 years, and with high cost health conditions that makes me wonder why such a high percentage of this population seems to have been targeted when same/similar roles and titles of under 40 and without FMLA were not. Can companies access health records to thin the herd?

Let's see how the rest of the year unfolds

Sadly the AOM jobs are slowly getting eliminated. What’s next?

I need to be blunt about the architecture team. They are overwhelmingly ineffective. Their performance is an embarrassment for what they're paid. They consistently demonstrate a profound inability to grasp practical constraints, rendering their input in meetings not just useless, but actively detrimental. As GCL, I view interfacing with them as a waste of my team's time and the company's money.

• September 15, 2025: Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) will cut 133 roles at its Bellevue office.

https://intellizence.com/insights/layoff-downsizing/major-companies-that-announced-mass-layoffs/

Are we being brutally honest or holding back? Inquiring minds want to know! I’m laying it all out. It’s nothing I haven’t already said to my leader on multiple occasions.

Has anyone taken on a consolidated role? Why/why not? I’m staring one down the barrel & I think I’m going to walk. I’m getting dodged when I ask if the extra fill time responsibilities come with a pay rise…which means no.

Imagine being told your job as a director is being eliminated before the holiday weekend.

Anyone else privy to the new policy that roles can’t be backfilled or hired until you prove why AI can’t do the role? And then you have to go and justify your position to MAV and ME, for them to approve.

As a cost cutting measure both sites are now under one leadership team. The next step is to start eliminating duplicate roles.

Get ready for a wild ride