I'll never understand why they don't let us volunteer before layoffs. Every single time we lose people who want to and need to be here and people who are praying to be laid off and get severance are the ones who stay behind. Wouldn't it be better for... — read more 

A Five-Part Series by Vera Sharav https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/never-again-is-now-global/

Any of you heard rumours the impact will affect those too, ie India, Eastern Europa, Southeast Asia ? Those locations were mainly spared from the layoffs in 2019 but we just got today a email hinting about it.

How inspiring it is to walk the hallways of my SAP building and read the placards placed  all around. . Here's a sample of some of them ,  "All for one and one for all",   and  " We are  the SAP Team" and this was one of the best,  "The way to... — read more 

The WARN Act requires an employer to notify employees, in writing, 60 days before a layoff, and pay the employee for those 60 days, in addition to any severance the employee may be entitled to. Unfortunately, some employers attempt to circumvent the... — read more 

SAP, according to Gartner, has been a cloud ERP laggard for several years. Without addressing client independent config and development (don’t get me going on BTP and integration frameworks) it is hard to see how we close the gap. The product... — read more 

This is an extract from the SuccessFactors annual report for 2011. The company was acquired by SAP in Dec 2011 We have a history of losses and we may not achieve or sustain profitability in the future. We have incurred losses in each fiscal period... — read more 

A lot of money was spent on this bad acquisition. I wonder what's next to sell?

How did this once great company become lead by the Tommy Boy of tech? Circle the German wagons while we run the ship aground! Hey did you see CK’s ski video? Before you pay an Olympian to ski with you best to get your grades up! What a clown. — read more 

I checked in our corporate portal to see if I could find out who was the global bean counter who would ring the bell once we go to 3000 layoffs, but alas I couldn't find out who it was. Fact us that none of us has any clue how many will really be... — read more 

The WARN Act requires an employer to notify employees, in writing, 60 days before a layoff, and pay the employee for those 60 days, in addition to any severance the employee may be entitled to. Unfortunately, some employers attempt to circumvent the... — read more 

What happened in the germany call after all hands... odd this was not shared with us all ? Thanks

It would be a kind gesture to let us know as soon as possible who will be impacted. There is no need for all of us to agonize over being cut for weeks or maybe even months. But that would require our leaders to care about us at least a little bit... — read more 

I hope that the final number of people who will be impacted by these layoffs will not exceed 3,000, although I doubt it. I think the percentage of the workforce that will be laid off will be more than 2.5% but that's just my opinion. I wish someone... — read more 

In 2023, SAP will conduct a targeted restructuring program in selected areas of the company. The purpose is to further focus on strategic growth areas by aligning our operating models and go-to-market approach with our accelerated cloud... — read more 

Tech companies take advantage of recessions to optimize headcount and remove low performing human capital and low performing product lines. It is a very healthy process and companies rise from the recession much stronger. Its very bullish for SAP... — read more 

Second Opinions always good... see what Zacks says about fourth quarter results,https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sap-set-report-q4-earnings-135101357.html     Summary is follows:  (i) Revenue about 8.23 Billion = equals a DECLINE of almost 10% YOY   ... — read more 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sap-expected-to-post-solid-4q-results-earnings-preview-271674550963

Microsoft to Cut Engineering Jobs This Week as Layoffs Go Deeper Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) plans to cut jobs in a number of engineering divisions on Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the matter, joining the ranks of technology giants that... — read more 

There will be no VERP for ppl who joined in 2022-2023. Lay off on horizon, Oracle replaced SAP in both revenue and new customers in ERP to be Nr.1. They have wide range of solution from Strong ERP solution portfolio, Public Hyperscaler services to... — read more 

If the market makes a turn soon, do you think there will be SAP layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

It is unbelievable how many lazy people this company employs who hardly do anything. I wouldn't care about that at all if those same slackers weren't valued more than hard working people. My impression is that the least productive ones here are... — read more 

Hi, I have joined SAP 5 months ago in Singapore office, I am really worried about layoff and it's impact.. Any one has any ideas

What do you predict?

Especially considering everything that has happened lately.

Are layoffs coming or not?

As most of us are already aware, SAP is currently buying back EUR 500M in Stock thru to Dec 31, 2022. This comes behind a buyback of about EUR 1 Billion in the first half of 2022 and the repurchase of about EUR1.5 billion in 2020. That's a... — read more 

Seems a RIF has started in August 2022. So far North America CS COO teams. More to come? What teams are being impacted and how many?

3 years since I was laid off in the 2019 restructuring. Since then SAP's Market Cap and Stock Price has lost about 30% of its value. My salary has increased 50%. I have outperformed SAP by 80%.

SAP has made more than 70 acquisitions. How much have these contributed to shareholder value and share price? Litmus was sold today - how much was recovered from the $2.5B Callidus purchase? Can the company return to growth without aggressively... — read more 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/salesforce-shuts-hong-kong-office-175759369.html A serious move by one of our main competitors, Salesforce. SAP should also consider shutting down offices in countries who do not share values ( whether they be... — read more 

One school of thought is that SAP will have minor layoffs in Q3, especially if the performance results do not look good. The hope would be that there is some improvement in Q3 - good enough to buy some time to turn profitable by Q4. If it turns... — read more 

Does anyone know why DJ Paoni really left SAP? The note about his leaving said he was "retiring" from SAP. I guess anything is possible, but he is 49 or 50 years old and he is retiring? Maybe so? I guess we will find out soon enough. If he... — read more 

What to expect?

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/oracle-reportedly-plans-lay-off-193212079.html FYI. All over the web, I see the news today that Oracle has begun what is reported to be a layoff in the thousands, the majority of which will be in the US. The... — read more 

As has been said on other posts, especially after the Q2 results which were clearly designed to emphasize the revenue numbers and ignore the continuing decline on Profitability. I can understand this as the company is attempting to balance the... — read more 

Revenue is not what the investment community is looking for - They want to see Profit, which SAP did not fare well and fell below YOY performance on Profit Operating Profit has been a perpetual problem for the company to properly address and... — read more 

Whos on the chopping block? Read something about acquired product Litmos, anyone else?

SAP Announces Q2 and Half-Year 2022 Results Cloud revenue up 34% and up 24% at constant currencies to become the largest revenue stream Current cloud backlog exceeds €10 billion, up 34% and up 25% at constant currencies SAP S/4HANA... — read more