#talent

that started with JD about 3 years ago.

EH is just overrated Nike bureaucrat that people that he had talent.

When will ford stop visa hiring. It looks like a IT call center. We have plenty of local talent.

And it's deliberate, because talent costs money. But people are the foundation. Everything else can be replaced or fixed. That can't. Especially if you’re gunning to stay on top.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has experienced significant, long-term, and ongoing "brain drain," characterized by the loss of experienced staff and top executives due to consistent restructuring, offshoring, and layoffs. While some employee reviews still reflect a generally positive 4.0/5 star rating on Glassdoor, specialized talent is reportedly leaving, and high-level, long-tenured employees are being replaced by lower-cost or contract labor.
Wow, who knew?

& it begins. Top talent, all stars, super studs, leaving the company for better opportunities.

GLTA that stay - I pray things get better for you. My advice, take the first step to see what else is out there. Resume, add the world on linkedin, don't just sit around waiting to see if you'll get RIF. The company is going down a path nobody can change, it just is what it is. Do what's best for you and your family, you owe this company NOTHING. Go make something of yourself

With all of the recent layoffs on the Atleos Service side of the world interested if anyone has any connections on the Business Partner/Dealer side of the business? Curious of what their thoughts are on the impending acquisition and open positions that may be available. I would think they would interested in beefing up their teams with all of the talent on the streets.

Since Havas US layoffs in 2025, cuts to benefits have been brutal. Health insurance isn't nearly as good as before, vacation have been drastically reduced and talent is fleeing. Noone is being promoted from within and the agency isn't staffing up... instead inexperienced outside contractors are being engaged.

Is this a sign the company is preparing to merge or sell, reducing employees on the books and making itself extremely and painfully lean?

It won't be long before clients feel the pain leadership is extending across the agency and start to flee like valued talent. At this point, everyone is a flight risk.

Our management seems to think there is an infinite talent pool and they can just keep replacing everyone with equal or better quality workers at a moment’s notice. Someone should give them a clue.

The rot in the middle is finally panicking. For years, they survived by feeding off cheap foreign labor and disposable entry-level workers, while crushing real talent or forcing others to stoop to their level. They never built anything of substance; they only guarded their turf. Now AI has changed the landscape, and they are exposed. They neither understand it nor can they control it. Their era of quietly cutting others down is ending. It is time for them to face the music. And the people they looked down on as “deplorables” may soon become far more powerful than the gatekeepers who once sneered at them.

They'll be laying people off left and right anyway. Sure, some people they might want to keep could leave first. On the other hand, it's not as if they've been working hard on talent retention. The only way it wouldn't make sense is if they've been planning to ramp up attrition. That wouldn't be a shocker, really.

Every single person here is unique, with something real to contribute. Specific experiences, distinct ways of solving problems, a whole stack of knowledge and skills built over time. You'd think that would make us the most valued asset in any company. Instead, FIS and most other corporations treat employees like interchangeable, inanimate resources. If that doesn't signal a profound loss of substance and direction in the economy, I don't know what does.

As the title says, make sure you are leaving honest reviews on places like glassdoor. I personally look at companies that are within the top 100 best companies to work at. It is a joke that EDJ is in the top 100. So make sure you are posting to get talent away from here.

good news for Charlotte ppl.
talents move to smbc who pays better.
while wells Fargo looking to improve west Charlotte neighborhood

Tech companies cut nearly 79,000 jobs in early 2026. Oracle eliminated over 25,000 roles, and Amazon cut 16,000 positions. Many cuts are linked to AI adoption or automation-driven restructuring. Despite layoffs, companies still compete intensely for skilled talent. Hiring processes are becoming longer and more intentional for quality candidates.

https://hrexecutive.com/79000-tech-jobs-cut-but-the-talent-war-isnt-over/

The layoffs keep happening over and over again but somehow the same useless people always remain. You know the type. The ones who've been here two decades, add nothing, and have mastered the art of hiding. They need to go, ASAP. Cut them and bring in people with current skills and actual energy. Fresh talent, not the same old faces doing nothing.

I'm taking it this is not intentional and we're having trouble attracting good talent? Which wouldn't surprise me one bit.

https://deadline.com/2026/03/talent-agents-impacted-wme-layoffs-1236759297/

Retired old man here. Question= 5 years ( or so) after the integration of esurance into Allstate, can we all agree that their talent pool was like the “kiddie pool” at a local swim club? No depth, no substance and all “look at me” show, with zero value added. Is gramps off base?

WME is conducting its first round of layoffs since the pandemic. The agency is eliminating 30 positions across various departments. This reduction impacts 3% of the total staff. Several talent agents are among those affected by the cuts. Elizabeth Wiederseim and Pierre-Elliott Denizard are named as departing agents.

Hollywood, California

https://deadline.com/2026/03/talent-agents-impacted-wme-layoffs-1236759297/

We have people here that any competitor would love to have, and we do nothing to keep them. Junior staff get demotivated and check out. Experienced veterans with institutional knowledge get shown the door. What's the endgame here? Feels like nobody's looking past the next Q earnings call.

When I look around my team, it's mostly people near retirement. We do get some new faces, but they're usually gone within a year, either unable to fit in or unwilling to do the work. When the old guard finally leaves, there won't be anyone ready to step in. It's wild that there are almost no junior people learning the work.

Algorithm for PMP and ranking. Yes I said it. Now its all new, so there will be considerations. But if AI you can compare across organization and huge data bases. What I am saying, it there are known attributes for high potential.And performances. Have a great day!

I knew a phenomenal engineer who was in Managed Services. He was a CCIE, multiple firewall certs, cloud experience, you name it, and every customer we mutually worked with always praised him. According to him, management ignored his promotion inquiries so he jumped ship to another company making 40% more and I followed his example.

Maybe CDW only wants average talent?

No offense to the people who are still here, many of them are just amazing, but in aggregate, top talent has already left Optum years ago

The 1st question Elon Musk will ask Erica Dhawan is what product did you create?

Please please do not hire those people.. They are just good at talking instead of doing.

In AI world, we need someone can actually create something

Stock together are gone completely.. Total compensation opportunity has reduced by $10k for me.
Dan wants people to do more work with less money.. good luck hiring and retaining talent

fiserv had been losing top talent for years. the people who built the products and who teams actually respected and followed. some climbers thought this was an opportunity for advancement but they have proven to be pretenders.

Rumor during Cisco Live was a big wave of good talent voluntarily departing from DC marketing. Not sure what's happening there?

MW and JG talking about AI like it's going to change their world.

Maybe it is. We see it in other parts of the world, part of people's day to day. It takes talent, and the talent is leaving.

If I had to guess, the average PSG of the AI team is probably not higher than 22.
All the people working on the data have also exited the company because of the BS and lack of confidence in our completely disconnected leaders.

JG and LC would rather spend tens of millions of dollars on BCG and McKinsey or EY rather than just pay a fraction of that to retain the talent that was here.

The world's best AI practitioners are not dinosaurs like the consultants with MBAs that JG and LC are bringing in. and the ENGINE strategy for AI is a fantasy at best. It's sad that these leaders have completely neutered what was a team with good talent.

No one wants to work for these puppets guided by management consultants who have practically zero experience in AI. If you're using the same consultants who have been here over a decade or two, what are the chances that they know what they're doing?

The best employees in the world are trusted to work where they want, when they want, and how they want. Not because no one is watching, but because they’re capable adults with talent, character, and integrity. When you hire people like that and give them autonomy, they consistently deliver more than any mandate ever will.

A five-day RTO policy sends the opposite signal. It tells top performers they aren’t trusted. And they respond the way the market always does, they leave. What’s left is a shrinking, less competitive talent pool made up of people with fewer options, the bottom quartile of talent.

If connectivity and flexibility are truly our product, we should be the company that proves it works, not the one that contradicts its own message.

Top performers are a threat to weak management. If the company was smart-they would reward their hard workers. They can’t because of this. They are too threatened that those below them are smarter than they are. Intelligence will get you in the door-but Optum is too threatened to keep you.

https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/kevin-oleary-loves-why-his-companies-will-never-force-a-return-to-the-office/91291726

https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/kevin-oleary-loves-why-his-companies-will-never-force-a-return-to-the-office/91291726

Kevin O’Leary — a real investor with actual companies laid out why forcing people into offices is a losing strategy:
“If you’re trying to say to people, ‘Oh, you got to work in an office,’ you’ll just get the bottom quartile of people who have no choice.”

He points out that in his portfolio of 50 companies, 40% of employees stayed remote after the pandemic and that’s true across the economy.

That’s pure talent economics. If you force everyone back full time, you literally shrink the talent pool to people who can’t choose otherwise. Meanwhile the companies embracing flexibility get the best performers and stay competitive.

This is about facts not feelings. It’s about results, real hiring markets, and the fact that companies that mandate RTO are choosing the bottom quartile instead of competing for top talent. Investors and workers alike see through it.

Was anyone from this org able to stay as a remote employee? Seems like this org’s layoffs really hit remote workers hard. Some very talented and hard working people were let go from this org.

It’s not looking good for TCS. Plan A is moving to cheaper alternatives that better align with the mgcc workforce once the current TCS contract expires.

Get ready for another round of knowledge and talent loss.

Skilled and experienced people can find another job more easily. They'll be the first to quit, followed by many decent people who can't meet the RTO requirements. I don't condone these attrition tactics, I think they're cheap and counterproductive. But if they have such a strong urge to push people out, why not do it strategically instead of shooting themselves in the foot?

The consequences of how layoffs have been handled, the lack of a sound strategy, and the plummeting stock price are resulting in a major loss of talent. Coworkers are leaving for Google, Healthcare Organizations, other tech companies etc. Solutions Architects, Technical Expertise, Managers with specific insights, and others that formed teams built out over the last few years are exiting stage left because of a lack of confidence in leadership, no clear pathway forward, ridiculous bureaucracy, and hollow talking points from the Executive Team. As a result much of the effort and resources that went into building teams for new services and technologies over the last few years is now a clear and abject waste of resources and time, resulting in missed opportunities and long term damage in the marketplace.

I have a feeling that everything will fall apart one fine day in the near future, seemingly without warning. You can't be averse to quality, race to be the cheapest, cut everything and do pretty much nothing else on your way to success, and still expect great results.