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Redundancies, offshoring and restructures as they reached us, newest first, in the words they arrived in. Tips are unverified until we report on them, and we never publish who sent one.

  • Siteminder doing big global restructure and layoffs. 10% at least gone. Big Sydney impacts.

    SiteMinder6 Nov 2026

    SiteMinder is cutting at least 10% of roles in a global restructure, with Sydney hit hard

  • Anon please. Barings has just abruptly enforced a 5-day return to the office without warning. This is a disruptive change for existing staff but they’ve also been on a huge hiring spree this year and marketed on the basis of flexibility. They’ve tried to enforce it under the radar without any formal comms because it’s clearly a disingenuous and dishonest shift in expectation. This is reflective of poor and inconsiderate decision-making by leadership. They are still actively recruiting, word of...

    Barings6 Nov 2026

    Barings has moved staff to five days a week in the office

  • Anon pls American Express announced 5% of all jobs to go by end of year. 3K globally “Not due to AI” per CEO

    American Express6 Nov 2026

    American Express is cutting 5% of its jobs by the end of the year

  • Deloitte AU today ‘restructured’ their National Sales Office function, making 26% of roles redundant, 40% of which were Director level positions. This is inkeeping with previous redundancy rounds within Deloitte's Growth function which also heavily biased towards thinning out Director level roles. Some folks will be able to apply for newly created roles, though only a few exist. Austerity baby.

    Deloitte5 Nov 2026

    Deloitte aims to grow APAC financial services to 30% of revenue by 2030

  • Anon please. Bendigo Bank is undertaking a 'spill and fill' of second line risk and compliance with people being made redundant as of mid-December. As a community bank, surely they can take a leaf out of NABs book and hold out until after Christmas.

    Bendigo Bank5 Nov 2026

    Bendigo Bank is running a spill and fill in risk and compliance, with redundancies from mid-December

  • FYI - Bupa layoffs happening this morning. Predicted 20% of the digital team will be impacted Bupa layoffs happening right now, last restructuring was Nov 2025 and took months for things to go back to normal and after 8 months of normalcy we are restructured again. Bupa is a mega joke.

    Bupa5 Nov 2026

    Bupa is cutting roles in its digital team, and says it is 5%

  • Unsure if you’ve already shared this, but KPMG will do more cuts - circa 400 heads out over the next 2-3 weeks. Right before Xmas.

    KPMG5 Nov 2026

    KPMG's government work ban extended, with Canberra staff short of client work

  • Acenda Life is making cuts across the business, not just operations. Some teams have been given only a couple of days for consultation, with changes expected to take effect by the end of November, just weeks before Christmas. They haven’t taken notice of NABs decision to delay their changes, or if they have, it’s to the extent it’s ignored.

    Acenda5 Nov 2026

    Acenda, formerly MLC Life, is making cuts across the business before Christmas

  • 10% workforce reduction announced for Woodside today Some leadership changes (vp level) that will change with further cascading org adjustments

    Woodside5 Nov 2026

    Woodside to cut more than 500 jobs, at least 10% of its workforce

  • Major cybersecurity breach at Clifford Chance - client data has been accessed and downloaded, they have notified affected clients

    Clifford Chance5 Nov 2026

    Clifford Chance has told clients about a cybersecurity breach

  • Long term follower here - just sent thro mini account. ING Australia wholesale banking is having a major restructure following the global change. 400 ppl - 3% of WB are expected to be gone globally, rebranded the whole dept to Corp and Insto banking.

    ING5 Nov 2026

    ING Australia's wholesale bank having a major restructure, 400 roles to go globally

  • Redunacies at Canva - 1,271 people, or 22% of Canva - can confirm this from email sent out this morning. Also expected return to work 2-3 days a week for hybrid employees Staff were told in the email if their role was was impacted or not Made redundant from Canva - lots of people filthy that you get 6 months, but not your annual leave separately. So it's all rolled in together. So like me, I have a month of...

    Canva4 Nov 2026

    Canva restructure affects 1,271 roles, 22% of staff

  • Anon please. Woolworths have commenced conversations cutting 50% of capital finance roles. They are imminently about to start the same impact across all FP&A teams offshoring to India

    Woolworths3 Nov 2026

    Woolworths moves more finance roles to India

  • Hearing some whispers about some big trouble at Aussie.. An internal investigation has uncovered some loose lips and staff are being called in to sign NDAs, news coming out tomorrow.

    Lendi Group3 Nov 2026

    Lendi Group makes about 40 senior managers redundant

  • Correction, NAB haven't cancelled Xmas all functions but some divisional and subdiv level functions have been cancelled, encouraging business units to have their own and no change to the funding guidelines. Not much to celebrate however given the orgchange, likely being the last time some colleagues would be seeing each other Same as previous years, $50 a head with anything above that self funded Anon- So nab has delayed all non voluntary redundancies until late jan after meeting with FSU....

    NAB3 Nov 2026

    NAB job cuts and bonus changes

  • Anon only - WBC layoffs much bigger than previously suggested and across all divisions. Real lack of transparency and clamp down on confidentiality

    Westpac3 Nov 2026

    Massive culls at Westpac under the Catalyst banner

  • Anon plz - EnergyAustralia cuts continue, 30% of heads of layer made redundant, deeper cuts to be announced this side of Christmas.

    EnergyAustralia3 Nov 2026

    EnergyAustralia redundancies and job cuts

  • Anon please EY let go of 5% of their tech consulting workforce last month. Folks with 9, 15+ years experience and client work let go

    EY3 Nov 2026

    EY Australia issues a hiring freeze across the firm

  • Bunnings End of year Party but team is asked to pay for their own food drinks to thank themselves for the work they do lol

    Bunnings3 Nov 2026

    Bunnings team asked to pay for its own end of year party

  • Please keep this anonymous, but RACV have gone into another recent round of redundancies this week in the Membership and Digital portfolio — contractors pushed out first. Marketing restructured last month and more job cuts coming on a broader scale within an enterprise project driven by IAG.

    RACV3 Nov 2026

    RACV makes redundancies with no restructure announcement

  • Hi there, I’m a Head Office employee at Myer, where a mandatory five-day in-office working week has recently been announced. I have some information I’d be interested in sharing anonymously, including: ·The PDF document provided to employees applying for flexible working arrangements, which I believe raises some serious concerns around discriminatory practices. I’m also considering referring this to the Fair Work Ombudsman. ·Further context that differs from what has been reported in the media. For example, Myer and Apparel Brands...

    Myer2 Nov 2026

    Myer to scrap work from home and move to five days in the office by January 2027

  • Anon pls - there was a restructure at Scyne Advisory this week with redundancies affecting mostly staff in the Infrastructure and Transformation teams in Canberra (principally) due to decrease in market demand for management consulting services. Number of people affected were no disclosed.

    Scyne Advisory31 Oct 2026

    Scyne Advisory redundancies, at least in Canberra

  • Anon pls. Skydance Warner-Paramount merger. Everyone must go back to the office 5 days a week, worldwide. And voluntary buy out (to offset the $80M in debt)

    Skydance27 Oct 2026

    Skydance orders five days in the office worldwide and offers voluntary buyouts

  • UNIQLO correcting underpayment to all employees

    UNIQLO27 Oct 2026

    UNIQLO correcting underpayment to its employees