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What's the point of all these threads? UBS has seen some uptick in revenue since the acquisition and the CEO and leadership have both repeatedly stated and taken action in growing its US division. Some layoffs will happen since some groups are seriously overbloated, but I don't see the point of continuously giving us fear with posts like this. 

 

This makes sense in terms of the group. Other groups like FIG will also most likely see some layoffs, and maybe further GIG/M&A layoffs since those groups remain overstaffed with juniors without enough seniors/deal flow. HC/TMT is also seemingly overstaffed, but those are the groups the senior leadership said they wanted to grow the most so those are a bit more questionable.

 

Yeah its more like they are doing 1-2% layoffs every quarter to maximize the angst and rumormill of employees constantly discussing the topic. If leadership was smart they would do 1 big round and say no more coming for rest of the year

 

UBS has had more layoffs than some, but it's not been immensely more. They are just doing it in very small waves, and they are seemingly going to continue to do it that way which is causing way more unrest. The numbers are 3-5% at least for coverage groups & M&A, not sure how it looks for things like DCM/ECM

 

UBS' strategy for layoffs makes no sense, they just do what Citi is doing and do some massive layoffs instead of just laying off a few people once every month. This is just causing more angst and fear than the usual one big layoff that everyone else does. I am not even sure if UBS has had the most layoffs for this year since it seems like all the layoff rounds happen for such few people. There have been 2 so far, and both have been a very small fraction even for the overstaffed groups. 

 
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