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This week's Flat White20 October 2026
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Redundancies, offshoring and restructures often reach our DMs before they reach the news. The latest, in the words they arrived in.
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Fortescue doing redundancies for onsite roles, exact magnitude and teams affected tbc.
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Anon pls. NAB CEO just emailed out saying that 2,500 roles to go in FY2027, with 1,500 of them to go before the end of calendar year 2026. Also dropping consultants and contractors. Meetings in the next few days for those affected. Anon please - NAB Ceo announced cutting roles of 2500 staff by FY27 including 1500 roles by end of year The email, headed "Simplifying our operating model and improving alignment to customer priorities", says "These changes will result...
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Not sure if it's exactly "breaking" news, but yesterday all NSW HealthShare employees (excluding front line staff) have been invited to apply for voluntary redundancies. Offering the standard (for govt.) 3 weeks per year of service but also an additional payment in bands of <1 year (additional 2 weeks pay) , 1-2 years (add. 4 weeks pay), 2-3 years (add. 6 weeks pay) and 3+ years (add. 8 weeks pay) This is after restructures and redundancies across various departments, and...
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Update at Australian Red Cross Lifeblood. Only in National Office. There's been a broader national realignment happening, moving away from regional structures towards a more centralised national model. This has been happening for the past 12-14 months now. ICT is currently going through a consultation/restructure as part of this, and separately Finance has also recently let go of 3 long serving senior staff members, with smaller isolated "restructures". Relationship management & donor acquisition: 20+ roles cut or restructured earlier this...
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Anon: Can confirm EnergyAustralia about to go through wave 2 EOM and wave 3 December as per the rumours here - business is in trouble with A & M (distressed business consultants) running through every department at the moment. All staff on edge.
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Anon please: TPG Telecom let go of a few from IT. Digital moved in to IT also and roles in IT and Digital impacted.
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