Saw the CK announcement this week that China is moving into the APAC reporting line and the MD is out. Does this mean a restructuring within the country, any insight? Asking as a lot of colleagues and managers I work with have a China reporting line — read more 

https://news.sap.com/2023/11/aha-moments-in-di-peter-lengler/ "Lengler reflects on those groups of individuals he refers to as “old white men clubs” who have never consciously suffered exclusion and have no understanding of the barriers that others... — read more 

Results of the survey were shared with the Works Council General Meeting last week and as expected the survey results were pathetic. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sap-staff-morale-plunges-internal-162359275.html The percentage of German... — read more 

I m hearing they are planning for p2025:(

US Department of Justice announced that SAP ( along with some other IT companies) are under investigation for Price Fixing going back several years. SAP has confirmed that it has been notified of such investigation. News outlets have posted that... — read more 

Sources below... German prosecutors opened a criminal probe of SAP SE’s Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller after the company said he would step down at the end of the month due to “inappropriate” behavior. Heidelberg prosecutors have opened a... — read more 

On Great Place to Work 2024, it’s mentioned that SAP America has 16,707 employees. Wikipedia, updated 2019, says 19311, and Top Workplaces with no date mentions 24K. More than 50% of SAP’s revenue is from USA. Will we survive until 2030 ? Or is the... — read more 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/s-xual-harassment-probe-opened-against-sap-cto-jurgen-muller-heres-what-the-company-said/articleshow/113334171.cms Way to go SAP HR!

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/ceo-andy-jassy-latest-update-on-amazon-return-to-office-manager-team-ratio

Are you still planning to retire from SAP, or has that changed? I sure don't.

First, announce a sweeping sales level “archetype change” during the 5x annual company layoff season noting ambiguous roles with no clarity for who actually keeps their job. Second, quietly package-out and/or “whack” all senior leadership in the... — read more 

VW Scraps Three-Decades-Old German Jobs Guarantee to Cut Costs

"After 30 years at SAP, Juergen Kreuziger, currently Head of Cloud & Lifecycle Management, has decided to take advantage of the early retirement program and will be ending his active phase at the company at the end of November."

Probably just rumors, but I heard that in a few months ,up to a year they will be forcing people to stay a minimum of 4h a day/3 times a week in the office.

I heard that lists are being prepared for all the employees to know their skill set so wondering what to expect from this? Does anyone have more insights into this ?

There have been quite a few about SAP looking to acquire some medium company. Anything new on that front? For US based employees red flags come up screaming whenever someone mentions ‘acquisition”, because for us it usually means period of... — read more 

Fired from the executive board for "inappropriate behaviour at a recent company event". Yet in the same email telling us this, the SAP supervisory board wish him well in the future and thank him for his accomplishments... Surely they aren't thanking... — read more 

Mostly sales and partner positions are opening at SAP US. Is it time for technical folks to jump ship?

So this will be "officially" Julia White's last week with SAP ( although I am sure she has been long gone since the announcement). Suffice to say Marketing has been left in a complete shambles. But where do we go from here? OK, we merge Product... — read more 

Great article: https://e3mag.com/en/sap-all-time-high/

I've never heard of this happening. It seems that if you get a better offer from another company, SAP will never try to convince you to stay with them.

This is such a massive development. What is going on inside of SAP? I can't believe two executive board members were fired at the same time. Please share the "dirty laundry" if you have it. I really thought things were going great at SAP, then... — read more 

Rumour has it that SAP is in early talks to acquire a mid-cap company in the coming 2-3 quarters. Any news or guesses from the community?

The unwillingness of our existing customers to swap out their ERP platforms and shift to the cloud should have been painfully obvious to our leadership.  Before I was an employee of SAP I was a customer and went thru an extensive  and "extremely... — read more 

Hi all, I know one person in PES that was affected by restructuring and was literally "unfired". He disappeared from the system just to reappear the very next day. The ISP code for restructuring disappeared as well. His manager said he talked with... — read more 

I mean beyond those 7%? There was talk about additional numbers, thousand people or possibly more. Is there any new information?

Very many companies rise (pun intended) and then face an inevitable decline if they cannot innovate to meet the challenges of tomorrow. SAP will not be able to create the next generation of solutions, and the leaders are well aware, so the next 3-5... — read more 

Scott Russell and Julia White to Leave SAP Executive Board: https://news.sap.com/2024/07/scott-russell-julia-white-to-leave-sap-executive-board/

Has anyone gotten clear information on what the new guidance is on the additional layoffs? It is being reported that "an additional" 1000 people will be laid off to the existing 8k-9k (7% of employees) that were advertised beginning of the... — read more 

After mercifully accepting the VERP, I Finally transferred my OWN shares from EquatePlus/CompurerShare (SAP never told me that they are one and the same) to my private broker. If you need to do this just call the US 1-888- number for ComputerShare... — read more 

Works Council confirmed plan to move support roles to low cost locations but we're also being told that voluntary redundancies won't be offered on our teams. There's also no sign of mandatory redundancies. Instead it feels like there's a concerted... — read more 

I agree with the previous poster that we can expect cuts and layoffs to become a new normal, both due to bad choices over years/mgmt shortsightedness and failures, and increasing consideration of short-term shareholders interests against long-term... — read more 

Our Board has now found that there is more success in cutting than in growing and we now will get a steady diet of job cuts as the investment community demands more and increased returns. I believe we can trace this new business plan of job cuts ... — read more 

SAP stock was climbing on Tuesday as the German enterprise software giant bucked a trend of downbeat earnings reports from software companies. SAP—which is Europe’s second largest tech company after chip-making equipment company ASML Holding —said... — read more 

https://aussiedlerbote.de/en/sap-will-cut-more-jobs-up-to-10-000/

https://news.yahoo.com/news/sap-employee-reported-workplace-s-xual-101201091.html