OK, I have no idea how long this series of tweets will be, but I've heard from several people associated or previously associated with NCC. While I've verified the association, bear in mind that a lot of this is from single sources. To start with, here's some backstory on the original round of layoffs in February: A North America-wide all-hands meeting was scheduled with only a few days notice, which was unusual. On that day, the British press were reporting that NCC was forecasting lower growth than expected and were going to lay off ~8% of its global workforce. The all-hands meeting confirmed layoffs would be coming. Managers would be notified that same day, and the layoffs would start at 12PM EST on the next day (a Friday). The layoffs were described by one source as a "bloody massacre". Employees were locked out of their computers before their manager had a chance to contact them and tell them the bad news. Several of these employees were onsite at customers in the middle of engagements. Several employees were locked out by mistake and only found out hours later that they were still employed. The actual number of employees laid off ended up being significantly higher than the 7-8% they were told in the all-hands meeting. One source estimated that between 10-15% of all North American employees were let go. Mismanagement was blamed by one source for the layoffs, as the North American side of the business was heavily dependent on work from big west coast tech firms and startups, which was a shift from a lot of east coast financial customers. When these big tech firms started their own layoffs, they reduced the number of services being bought from NCC, resulting in the February layoffs.