Just in time for Christmas.
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UPS said the layoffs were part of a broader effort to cut costs and reshape the company to better adapt to shifting market dynamics, as executives face pressure to stem a long-term decline in the share price, which has fallen by more than 20 percent this year.
UPS shares rose following Tuesday’s release, and were up over 7 percent at the time of writing.
The Atlanta-based company said the reductions comprised 14,000 roles primarily in management, alongside around 34,000 cuts within its “operational workforce”—employees involved in its day-to-day logistics and delivery services.
I would be curious to know what percentage of the 34,000 chose not to join the union
Say it with me everyone:
Not a recession!
If you say it over and over, it must be true!
"14,000 roles primarily in management, alongside around 34,000 cuts within its operational workforce”
This should bode well going into the package shipping season. But hey, at least the stock price went up after the announcement.
Gutting companies is great business for wall street "investors"
Don’t worry. With the tariffs, shelves will probably be empty enough that it won’t matter.
They'll just hire back a bunch of "seasonal" workers with no benefita.
Hard to feel sorry when so much of their union voted for Trump. What goes around...
"14,000 roles primarily in management, alongside around 34,000 cuts within its operational workforce”
Are you suggesting 14,000 > 34,000?
Seriously asking, does deleting comments just not propagate on lemmy?
But also a ton of those deleted roles are temporary . Hidden behind violations based on deals decades ago that will be fixed in 3 years if not sooner. Many cut were the lowest, cheapest, staff. Much is not rehiring which will cost them and isn't actually firing people. Basically a lot of it is an illusion
Is this one "due to AI", too, like the one at Amazon?
This, just before Christmas, is not a good sign. Consumers have run out of "disposable income", whatever that is. Car payment delinquencies are up, too. Remember, the stock market is not the economy.
I worked for ups for about 3 months before they laid off our entire shift. I already knew it was coming, more than half of what I did was unload trucks in Ohio that had been loaded in Texas and reload them for either Georgia or Kentucky. They eventually just started routing them all to the station in Kentucky, where they were already driving within 25 miles of to get to me in Ohio.
22b in revenue so far in 2025
Saving 3.5b by years end
Profits at all cost?
i see more amazon vans than ups trucks nowadays
I don't think Amazon prioritizes efficiency, but delivery speed (after sitting on the packages for days). I often seem multiple Amazon trucks going to the same house in a day.
I mean they kinda can't prioritize efficiency when they offer next day shipping that is promised to be done before 0800 for certain products. I ordered some batteries yesterday at 1900 and they were here before I woke up at 0600.
Yes I know amazon bad and all that but I do not have the money to pay literally double for the same exact product or wait a month and pay tariffs on alibaba.
Amazon is its own thing. It's not really a shipping company. And they've had their own layoff issues. Consumers spending less affects everyone.
According to their last earnings, domestic margins were down due to decreased spending. International margins were up due to increased spending. They might be seeing further decrease in domestic spending coming into the holiday season.
Wait until they start running other services as if they're businesses. You can talk about the days when some roads weren't toll roads.
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